Ed Perkins

Ed Perkins is a Grierson award winning documentary filmmaker living and working in London trading as Stroma Films Limited In 2015 Ed was named as a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit Ed has directed filmed and edited for National Geographic BBC Channel 4 The New Yorker Stateless Media Vanity Fair The Guardian and Focus Features After graduating from the University of North Carolina as a MoreheadCain scholar in 2009 where his student documentary For Gods Sake won Best in Show at the Carolina Film Festival and The Eva Marie SaintJeffrey Hayden Humanitas Award he then developed and directed a series of TV documentaries for National Geographic Channel as well as directing the behindthescenes documentaries for Project Nim The Eagle the BAFTA winning The Imposter and the Academy Award winning Seaching for Sugar Man Two of Eds short films have won Vimeo Short of the Week and Staff Pick accolades and If I Die on Mars was featured on the frontpage of The Guardian website and has had more than 1000000 views over multiple platforms In 2015 Ed finished directing his first feature documentary Garnets Gold which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2014 won a Grierson Award for Best Newcomer won Best International Documentary awards at Docville and Jozi Film Festival and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at both Tribeca and the Edinburgh International Film Festival