Mark Edwards

 Producer 

Mark Edwards has worked in film and television production for over 15 years. He graduated from Yale University, where he studied literature, art history and history, and then attended film school at NYU.  He began his career in New York supervising the post-production of a 10-part series about the history of American Cinema for PBS and the BBC. He also wrote several documentary series, including a history of American theater, which was awarded a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. In 1995, he moved to Paris, where he became Regional Coordinator for France for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, created by Steven Spielberg. After spending three years recording more than 1,700 interviews of Holocaust survivors in France, he returned to producing documentary films in 1998. Since then he has specialized in international co-productions, and has produced documentaries about history, film, politics and culture for most of the major broadcasters in Europe, Canada and Australia. Several of his productions have been selected at film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival, the Turin International Film Festival and the Jerusalem International Film Festival. He lives with his wife, an author and editor of children’s books, and their three children in Paris.

Filmography

   Producer

 

2008          Mr President by Emilio Pacull

Sidney Poitier: An Outsider in Hollywood by Catherine Arnaud

Official Selection Turin, Lisbon & Sao Paolo International Film Festivals

2007     Vietnam 68 by Patrick Barberis

2006     Children of Solidarnosc by Rafael Lewandowski

Official Selection Era New Horizons Festival, Wraclow, One World Festival, Prague.

Spell Your Name by Sergey Bukovsky

Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg. Co-produced by Victor Pinchuk.

Official Selection (competition) Go-East festival 2008, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2008.

2005          Volevo solo vivere by Mimmo Calopresti 

Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg. Co-produced by RAI Cinema.

Official Selection (out of competition) Cannes 2006, Jerusalem International Film Festival 2006.

Paris, je t’aime, behind the scenes collective film by Joel & Ethan Coen, Alexander Payne, Gus Van Sant, and 17 other directors.

2004     Operation Hollywood by Emilio Pacull

A Tale of a Tiny Bird by Catherine Garanger

Line Producer or Co-producer

2003          Cinébus weekly French TV series hosted by Ariel Wizman

2002     After the Release weekly French TV series hosted by Ruth Elkrief    

2001     Absolutely Cinema weekly French TV series narrated by Anne Andreu

2000     Visions of the Tour de France collective film by Costa Gavras, Amos Gitai and several other directors.

The Man from Kennewick by Emmanuel Laurent

1999     Les Miserables by Foster Wiley, episode of The Learning channel series Great Books

Ancient Rome by Gabrielle Pfeiffer, pilot of National Geographic series Treasure Seekers

Thomas Jefferson's Blood by Thomas Lennon episode of PBS series Frontline

Project Manager

1995-1998 Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles         

Regional Coordinator for France

Post-production Supervisor

1992-1994 American Cinema , a 10-hour series for PBS and BBC.

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