John Edginton

John Edginton is an awardwinning 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 AampE 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 AampE 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 Emmynominated 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 BAFTAnominated 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 filmmaking at screenings festivals and universities in the US and the UK