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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.

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Director:
1989  Who Killed Martin Luther King?
1998  Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
2003  The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story
2006  Syd Barrett: Under Review
2008  Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death... and Insects
2009  Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains In New York
2012  Pink Floyd : The Story of Wish You Were Here
2014  Genesis: Together and Apart
2017  Joe Cocker - Mad Dog with Soul

Executive Producer:
1989  Who Killed Martin Luther King?
1998  Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
2003  The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story
2006  Syd Barrett: Under Review
2008  Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death... and Insects
2009  Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains In New York
2012  Pink Floyd : The Story of Wish You Were Here
2014  Genesis: Together and Apart
2017  Joe Cocker - Mad Dog with Soul

Producer:
1989  Who Killed Martin Luther King?
1998  Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
2003  The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story
2006  Syd Barrett: Under Review
2008  Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death... and Insects
2009  Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains In New York
2012  Pink Floyd : The Story of Wish You Were Here
2014  Genesis: Together and Apart
2017  Joe Cocker - Mad Dog with Soul

Writer:
1989  Who Killed Martin Luther King?
1998  Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
2003  The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story
2006  Syd Barrett: Under Review
2008  Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death... and Insects
2009  Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains In New York
2012  Pink Floyd : The Story of Wish You Were Here
2014  Genesis: Together and Apart
2017  Joe Cocker - Mad Dog with Soul

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