Edmund Stenson’s work as director, producer and editor spans both documentary and fiction, and focuses on human rights and social issues. In 2018, he directed the award-winning Finding Fukue, a short documentary for the CBC which has amassed over 6 million views online, and Other Desires, an experimental short which premiered at the Bristol Independent Film Festival. His 2015 produced/edited documentary, The Roots Remain, won awards at RIDM, the Victoria International Film Festival, and the Wales Documentary Festival.
He has cut Canadian documentary television — in 2016 Le messager, and the 2017 miniseries, Ma vie Made in Canada — and numerous short fiction films, such as A Yakuza’s Melody (LA Film Awards) and She Fell Away (London Short Film Festival) . He has also cut documentary features such as Ghosts of Our Forest (Hot Docs 2017) and numerous short docs (the award-winning Sourtoe: The Story of the Sorry Cannibal, BravoFactual short Sexual Being and the Hot Docs 2017 film, The Long Way Home).
In 2020, he is working on two documentaries: as director, The Martyr, a film about Gilles de Rais and a British woman who wishes to exonerate him and Secret Knots, a faux-documentary about the end of the world.
Work history
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Story ProducerRTR
- Toronto, CanadaFull Time
Working with editorial and directorial team to shape narratives on HGTV shows like Help! I Wrecked my House
Skills
- Editing
- Fluent French
- Japanese
- Documentary Film
- Documentary
- Branded Content
- Film Editing
- Storytelling
- Creative Storytelling
Education
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BachelorUniversity of Warwick
Coventry, United Kingdom
Film and Literature, First-Class Honours.
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Master of ArtsConcordia University
- Montreal, Canada
Film Studies (GPA 4.25)
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Awards
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Short Filmmaker's AwardNational Screen Institute
For my 2018 short doc, 'Finding Fukue.'