Ed Perkins

Ed Perkins

Ed Perkins is an Oscar nominated documentary filmmaker whose films have won numerous international awards. He has worked exclusively at Lightbox for the past five years where he has made many of his films. Ed has directed films for Netflix, the BBC, The Guardian, National Geographic and Channel 4 and was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit in 2015. After graduating from the University of North Carolina in 2009, Ed directed the behind-the-scenes documentaries for 'Project Nim', 'The Eagle', the BAFTA winning 'The Imposter', and the Academy Award winning 'Searching For Sugar Man'. In 2015 Ed made his first feature documentary, 'Garnet's Gold', which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2014, won a Grierson Award for Best Newcomer, won Best International Documentary awards at Docville and Jozi Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at both Tribeca and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Ed then went on to make 'Bare Knuckle Fight Club' for Channel 4 and FX Studios, of which The Times said "You will not have seen a better documentary this year". He has also made a number of short films including 'If I Die On Mars' which won Vimeo "Short of the Week" and "Staff Pick" accolades and has had more than 1,000,000 views over multiple platforms. In 2018 Ed directed 'Black Sheep', a documentary short for The Guardian, which won 13 international awards and was nominated for Best Documentary Short at the 91st Academy Awards. In 2019, Ed released his latest film 'Tell Me Who I Am' - a feature documentary for Netflix.
Ed Polgardy

Ed Polgardy

Ed Polgardy, president of Black Hat Magic Productions, is an acclaimed comic book creator-writer-editor, an Emmy-Award-winning television producer-director, and a successful feature film writer-producer-director. PUBLISHING Polgardy co-created the internationally acclaimed hit comic book series "From The Darkness" and "From The Darkness: Blood Vows", and wrote the graphic novel adaptation of Quentin Tarantino's "From Dusk 'Til Dawn". As Senior Editor at Jim Shooter's Defiant Comics, he developed, wrote, and edited several hit titles, including "The Good Guys" and "Dark Dominion" (penciled by "Spider-Man" co-creator Steve Ditko). Polgardy also held the Editor-in-Chief position at BIG Entertainment where he worked with celebrity concept creators John Jakes, Mickey Spillane, Tom Clancy, and Neil Gaiman. The resulting intellectual properties were licensed to Miramax, Alliance Entertainment, and ABC TV. TELEVISION Polgardy's TV work includes producing and directing: "Today's Environment", starring Ed Begley, Jr., "Millennium", hosted by Peter Weller, "The Best of Wine and Food", featuring George Hamilton, ".COM" and ".COM Kids", starring Mark Hamill, "Elegance with Ivana", featuring Ivana Trump, "Women in Charge", with Nancy Glass, "First Priority", hosted by Hunter Tylo, "Healthy Solutions", starring Mariette Hartley, and "Monsterama", featuring Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson. Polgardy also helped create Price/Parker, a television production company where he developed, produced, and directed "Identity", a female-empowerment show that aired on The Learning Channel. Moving into fictional programming, Polgardy produced "Oh Jerome, No" (starring Mamoudou Athie,Natasha Lyonne, and Georgina Campbell) through his Black Hat Magic Productions company, a short-form television series-eight 12-minute episodes-that aired on "Cake" on Disney's FXX Network and garnered a Best Actor Emmy Award nomination for star Mamoudou Athie. FEATURE FILMS Polgardy produced the motion pictures "Masked Mutilator" (featuring Brick Bronsky, Glenn Hetrick, and James DeBello), which he also co-wrote, "The Halfway House" (starring cult-film icon Mary Woronov), "The Ghostmaker" (starring Aaron Dean Eisenberg), "Window Of Opportunity" (with producing partner John Densmore, legendary rock-'n'-roll drummer from The Doors), "Dark Desire" (featuring Kelly Lynch and Michael Nouri), "Megachurch Murder" (starring Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Corbin Bleu and Romeo Miller) and "The Wretched" (featuring John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda, Kevin Bigley, and Azie Tesfai), which was the number one movie in America for six weeks straight in the summer of 2020. He line produced "Boiler Maker" (starring John Savage), and co-produced "Laid to Rest" (featuring Lena Headey and Thomas Dekker). As a second unit director, Polgardy worked on "Death's Door", "Laid to Rest", "Dark House", "The Ghostmaker" and "The Wretched". AT PRESENT Ed Polgardy creates and develops intellectual properties for film and TV at Black Hat Magic Productions, Inc., a development, production, and licensing company that he founded in 2010. He's currently working on a feature-length crime thriller called "Kill Everything" that he created, co-wrote and is scheduled to direct.

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