John Edginton
- Known for
- 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.
Movies directed by John Edginton
- Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here 2012 · ★ 7.3
- Joe Cocker: Mad Dog with Soul 2017 · ★ 7.3
- The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story 2003 · ★ 7.9
- Genesis: Together and Apart 2014 · ★ 6.6
- Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt? 1998 · ★ 6.5
- Syd Barrett: Under Review 2006 · ★ 6.0
- Who Killed Martin Luther King? 1989 · ★ 7.0
- Battle for the Trees 1992 · ★ 10.0
- Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains In New York 2009
- Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death... and Insects 2008
- When the Canaries Stop Singing 1992