Rupert Edwards

RUPERT EDWARDS – BIOGRAPHY Rupert Edwards - an award winning film maker with a wealth of experience producing and directing a wide range of factual and fictional stories for British broadcasters, especially the BBC and Channel4. Recent projects include a 'The Kids Today Project' - a sequence of commercial films for Unilever, a history film in Australia with Huw Edwards, an archaeological film in the Caribbean for BBC4 and two Culture Show Specials for BBC2 ‘Who on Earth was Ford Madox Ford?’, a profile of Ford, a great and largely forgotten novelist, and 'DH Lawrence - A Journey without Shame' a film about Lawrence the traveller and his elopement over the Alps in 1912. Other highlights include a two part film for BBC1, ‘The Trouble with Tolstoy’, a profile of the Russian writer which was nominated for the Grierson Prize, two documentaries following Michael Sheen’s extraordinary Port Talbot Passion Play, which won him Best director at the Welsh BAFTAs and was also winner of best Arts doc at the Celtic Film Festival and a BBC2 documentary with Professor Amanda Vickery, ‘The Many Lovers of Jane Austen’ . A series of 6 x 30’ films for BBC4, “A Poet’s Guide to Britain’, a feature length film about the life and music of Frederic Chopin, the first ever film profile of the leading Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, a television opera about Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, (winner of a special golden rose at the Montreux Festival) a documentary about the composer Antonio Vivaldi, (winner of a Gold medal at the Park City Festival) and a number of films for the BBC’s flagship Arts documentary series ‘Imagine’, (including the Youtube hit ‘Imagine being a Concert Pianist’). He also worked as a director on the British Academy of Film & TV Award winning history of classical music, ‘Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs. Other films include highly popular profiles of Rowan Atkinson and US comedian Bill Hicks and two comedy docs about teenagers with Harry Enfield. He has produced films in over 25 different countries