Patrick Creadon
- Directing
- May 1, 1967 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Patrick Creadon (born May 1, 1967) is an American documentary filmmaker, best known for the documentary film Wordplay. A profile of New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz, Wordplay premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and became the second-highest grossing documentary of that year. His second film, I.O.U.S.A., an examination of America's debt problem which forecast the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was later named one of film critic Roger Ebert's Top 5 documentaries of the year. Since 2006, Creadon is one of only three filmmakers to release multiple films that were ranked within the Top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time. The other two filmmakers are Michael Moore (Sicko, Capitalism: A Love Story) and Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for 'Superman' ). Description above from the Wikipedia article Patrick Creadon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- The King of Color · Director, Writer
- The Loyola Project · Director
- Hesburgh · Director
- Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story · Director
- Behind the Curve · Executive producer
- Catholics vs. Convicts · Narrator (Voice), Director
- Ocean Stories: Wyland · Director, Writer
- All Work All Play: The Pursuit of eSports Glory Live · Director
- If You Build It · Director
- 30 for 30 · Director
- Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants · Director, Writer
- I.O.U.S.A. · Director, Writer
- Wordplay · Director, Writer
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Director
- Hijacking Hollywood · Stand In
- Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn · Tom Sawyer