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john edginton

Director, Producer

Male
United States , New York City

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2

Total of visits

837

Current Work Details

What I do

Consultant/Exec Producer,Director

Company

otmoor productions

Website

http://www.otmoorproductions.com

Blog Feed

www.otmoorproductions.com/blog.php

Where I work

I run my own company or organisation

Resources / Expertise

Experienced in Consultancy for documentary productions

Availability

Paid Work or Collaboration

Shooters Q&A

Films I wish I had made

Don't Look Back,Thin Blue Line,Standard Operating Procedure, Roger and Me, Kurt and Courtney, Capturing the Friedmans, Shoah, Mulholland Drive, Chinatown, When we were Kings,On the Waterfront. A Short Film about Love. All Todd Solondz eg Happiness,Life During Wartime,Welcome to the Dollhouse. Hitchcock - North by Northwest. Godard - Pierrot Le Fou,Bande a Part. Manhattan, Apocalypse Now, Gimme Shelter,Grey Gardens. Grizzly Man.Coens - Barton Fink,Burn after Reading,Fargo. Secrets and Lies. Festen.

I cried watching

The Pianist

I left the cinema during

Never! I always watch to the bitter end

Directors I love

Werner Herzog, Maysles Brothers, D.A.Pennebaker, Nick Broomfield, Michael Moore, Godard, Polanski, David Lynch, Oliver Stone (most), Hitchcock, Woody Allen in 60s/70s, Coen Brothers, Scorsese, Coppola, Todd Solondz, Krzystof Kieslowski, Mike Leigh. Errol Morris.

Actors I admire

Sean Penn,Nicolas Cage,Isabelle Huppert,Naomi Watts,Charlize Theron in Monster,Frances McDormand,Brando,James Dean,Bogart, Alison Steadman,Timothy Spall

Writers I respect

Paul Auster,A.M.Homes,Nick Kent,John Cheever,Raymond Carver,Joyce Carol Oates,Albert Camus

My desert island discs

I Often Dream Of Trains album - Robyn Hitchcock ;Pictures of You - The Cure; Mad World - Tears for Fears;Periodically Double or Triple - Yo la Tengo;This is a Modern Rock Song - Belle and Sebastian;Lately I've Let things Slide - Nick Lowe;Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies;Tower of Song - Leonard Cohen.

Books I have given my friends

Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs;Chronicles - Bob Dylan;Fifth Ave 5am - Sam Wasson;February House - Sherill Tippins;Errol Morris Interviews.

My death row meal

Whole baked wild seabass;mashed sweet potatoes;green beans sauteed in garlic.bottle of chablis!

The best thing I own

My health plus Passport with US I-Visa

Shooting People stuff

Joined

30/04/04

Subscribed to

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NY FILMMAKERS

My Work & Credits

  • Film default

    Who Killed martin Luther King?

    Format
    16mm
    Production company
    otmoor productions
    Category
    Documentary
  • Our Father the Serial Killer

    Format
    DVCam/Mini-DV
    Production company
    otmoor productions
    Category
    Documentary
  • The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett story

    Format
    Digi-Beta
    Production company
    otmoor productions
    Category
    Documentary
  • Mumia Abu-Jamal :A case for reasonable doubt?

    Format
    16mm
    Production company
    otmoor productions
    Category
    Documentary
  • Jewish Law

    Format
    DVCam/Mini-DV
    Production company
    otmoor productions
    Category
    Documentary
  • Robyn Hitchcock:Sex,Food,Death..and Insects

    My role: Director/producer

    Format
    HD
    Production company
    otmoor productions
    Category
    Documentary
  • REVELATIONS:DIVORCE JEWISH STYLE

    My role: Director

    Format
    HD
    Production company
    OTMOOR PRODUCTIONS