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.
John Edginton Biography / Wiki
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John Edginton Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story | Director | 2003-03-24 | The full bizarre, tragic but celebratory story of Syd Barrett, the co-founder of Pink Floyd…. |
| Pink Floyd : The Story of Wish You Were Here | Director | 2012-06-26 | Wish You Were Here, released in September 1975, was the follow up album to the globally successful The Dark Side Of The Moon and is cited by many fans… |
| Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt? | Director | 1998-03-01 | Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a Philadelphi… |
| Genesis: Together and Apart | Director | 2014-10-04 | A feature-length documentary about one of the most successful British bands in rock music. The film recounts their extraordinary musical story, explor… |
| Joe Cocker – Mad Dog with Soul | Director | 2017-03-17 | The turbulent life of soul and blues singer, the late Joe Cocker. A former gas fitter from Sheffield, catapulted to world stardom in 1969 at Woodstock… |
| Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death… and Insects | Director | 2008-03-11 | A documentary that goes inside the dark, witty, surreal world of cult English singer/songwriter Robyn Hitchcock…. |
| Syd Barrett: Under Review | Director | 2006-01-23 | In this Under Review we look at the genius of Syd Barrett…. |
| Who Killed Martin Luther King? | Director | 1989-09-20 | This film, which includes archival footage and interviews with convicted killer James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King III and former police officers, loo… |
| Robyn Hitchcock – I Often Dream of Trains In New York | Director | 2009-06-05 | I Often Dream of Trains in New York was recorded live at Symphony Space in New York City in the fall of 2008 during the U.S. leg of Hitchcock s highly… |
John Edginton Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt? | Executive Producer | 1998-03-01 | Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a Philadelphi… |
| Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death… and Insects | Producer | 2008-03-11 | A documentary that goes inside the dark, witty, surreal world of cult English singer/songwriter Robyn Hitchcock…. |
| Joe Cocker – Mad Dog with Soul | Producer | 2017-03-17 | The turbulent life of soul and blues singer, the late Joe Cocker. A former gas fitter from Sheffield, catapulted to world stardom in 1969 at Woodstock… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt? | Writer | 1998-03-01 | Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a Philadelphi… |
| Joe Cocker – Mad Dog with Soul | Writer | 2017-03-17 | The turbulent life of soul and blues singer, the late Joe Cocker. A former gas fitter from Sheffield, catapulted to world stardom in 1969 at Woodstock… |
| Who Killed Martin Luther King? | Writer | 1989-09-20 | This film, which includes archival footage and interviews with convicted killer James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King III and former police officers, loo… |
| Genesis: Together and Apart | Writer | 2014-10-04 | A feature-length documentary about one of the most successful British bands in rock music. The film recounts their extraordinary musical story, explor… |
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