Robert Edwards

Robert EDWARDS (1963, Bad Kreuznach, Germany) lives in New York. Edwards graduated from Stanford University's Masters Program in Film. Formerly he was an infantry and intelligence officer in the US Army and served as a captain in a parachute infantry regiment in Iraq in the First Gulf War. Edwards began his filmmaking career in documentary. Land of the Blind is his first fiction film. His screenplay for this film won the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2001.

Filmography

Paranoia (1996, short), Voice of the Prophet (2002, short doc), Underground Zero (2002, segment: Voice of the Prophet), Sumo East and West (2003, with Ferne Pearlstein), Land of the Blind (2006)