John Edginton
- Directing
Biography
John Edginton is an award-winning producer, writer and director of documentary films. He has made films for virtually every documentary strand on British TV as well as for the US channels HBO, A&E, the Sundance Channel, VH1. Notable investigative documentaries have included "Mumia Abu Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?" for HBO - now available on itunes - and "Chappaquiddick" for the BBC and A&E . Music and arts docs include "The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story" for the BBC and "Robyn Hitchcock- Sex, Food, Death ..and Insects" for the Sundance Channel and BBC4. John is also an executive producer and consultant on documentary projects .He has helped to guide projects as diverse as "Bellevue - Inside Out" for HBO and the Emmy-nominated series " Monty Python Almost the Truth - the Lawyers' Cut" for IFC channel in the US and the BBC in the UK. He was the production consultant on the BAFTA-nominated documentary ,"Freddie Mercury : The Great Pretender", shown in the Imagine series on the BBC in the UK. He is a regular speaker on the issues and process of documentary film-making at screenings, festivals and universities in the US and the UK.
Known for
Filmography
- Joe Cocker: Mad Dog with Soul · Writer, Director
- Genesis: Together and Apart · Director, Writer
- Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here · Director
- Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains In New York · Director
- Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death... and Insects · Producer, Director
- Syd Barrett: Under Review · Director
- The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story · Director
- Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt? · Executive producer, Writer
- Battle for the Trees · Director, Producer
- When the Canaries Stop Singing · Director
- Who Killed Martin Luther King? · Director, Writer
- Omnibus · Director