Биография
Ted Passon is a primetime Emmy award-winning director whose films and series have played at the Sundance Festival, The Berlin Film Festival, The Toronto Film Festival, The Venice Biennale, Hot Docs, and many others. Other awards for his work include a Peabody Award, the Gotham Award for "Best Nonfiction Series", a dupont-Columbia Award, the Sundance Producing Award for Nonfiction, the Humanitas Prize for "Best Feature Documentary", the "Unforgettable" Award at the Cinema Eye Honors, a Webby Award for "Best Feature Length Documentary", The Audience Award at both the Camden International Film Festival and Hot Docs and others. His work has been twice nominated for an Independent Spirit Award including "Best Documentary" and "Best Nonfiction Series".
"Patrice: The Movie" (HULU) was named "One of the best documentaries of the year" by Vogue and became one of the "Most Liked Documentaries" on Hulu. "Philly D.A." (PBS) an 8-part series co-directed with Yoni Brook was hailed as "one of the best TV shows of the year" by TIME, The New York Times, Variety, The Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter , The Washington Post, Vulture, Vogue, Slate, Indiewire, and The New Yorker. Ted also directed episodes of the 8-part series, "Worn Stories" (Netflix) which has 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and was the 5th most watched show in the US on Netflix when it premiered.
He has directed or produced projects for musical artists such as: St. Vincent, Kim Deal, Tierra Whack, Blood Orange, Kurt Vile, The National, Dr. Dog, Dan Deacon, Spank Rock, The Darkness, Kimya Dawson, Plastic Little, and others.
He is a co-founder of All Ages Productions, a full-service film and video production company and a board member of the Blackstar Film Festival.
