Edward Symes, Date of Birth

    

Edward Symes

American filmmaker

Date of Birth: 31-Aug-1981

Profession: film director, film producer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Edward Symes

  • Edward (Teddy) Symes (born August 31, 1981) is a producer, director, art curator, and founder of Here and Now Films and Frontrunner Magazine. His 2008 documentary, Los Medicos, followed a US medical team working in a public hospital in rural Guatemala.
  • Faced with a crowd of more than a thousand, and only one week to help, the film captures the humanitarian ideal as it collides head on with the scope of need and the complex nature of giving.
  • The film premiered at the Jackson Hole Film Festival.He began his career as an assistant to Academy Award-winning documentary producer Grace Guggenheim and then continued on to work as assistant editor for CBS News in New York City.
  • After leaving CBS, he focused his efforts towards online video, web design, and internet distribution, ultimately creating online content for the United Nations Development Programme and Project Hope. As a cinematographer Symes worked on the global music project 1 Giant Leap documenting music contributions by Boots Riley, Michael Stipe, Eugene Hutz, Baaba Maal, Jhelisa Anderson, Haale, Miles Solay, and Speech.
  • Interviews for the film included Earle Sebastian, Daniel Pinchbeck, and Anthony Lappe among others.
  • Symes was also a cinematographer on Tribeca Film Festival experimental documentary Nocturnity by filmmaker Alexandra Liveris. In 2007, he created short documentaries for various non-profits working domestically as well as internationally in Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Guatemala often collaborating with filmmaker Michael Fasciano.
  • Their documentaries Stop and Think, Rest When You're Dead, and Rebuilding Rwanda aired simultaneously on the broadband and cable networks of Current TV. Rest When You're Dead, an eight-minute documentary video pod, followed Garth Stewart, a student at Columbia University, as he recounted his experience joining the army, fighting in Iraq as a mortar gunner during the invasion in 2003, and his political ambitions.
  • The piece documents in cinema verite the early stages of a budding politician. In 2008, he traveled as cameraman with Time Magazine reporters covering homeland security contractors and politician Ron Paul for Time.com. He earned a degree in English Literature from Kenyon College and M.F.A.
  • from Stanford University.

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