Don Edkins is an international documentary filmmaker and producer. He was born in Cape Town in 1953. At the age of twenty-two he left South Africa for political reasons, and returned in 1994 to take part in his country’s first democratic elections.
He produced the Southern African series on truth and reconciliation Landscape of Memory (1998), and the multi-awarded documentary project
Steps for the Future (2001/04) – a collection of 38 films about Southern Africa in the time of HIV and AIDS. He is Executive Producer of the STEPS International global documentary project
Why Democracy?
''Why Democracy?'' is a documentary film series produced by The Why Foundation, previously named Steps International. The series consists of 10 films depicting independent documentary filmmakers' personal perception of and experience with democr ...
10 long and 18 short films. He is Executive Producer on the STEPS International global documentary project
Why Poverty? He is producing Dare to Dream and the AfriDocs initiative. In April 2014, he started AfriDocs, the first weekly primetime documentary strand across sub-Saharan Africa, that screens the best African and international documentary films twice a week, as well as special focus events on relevant issues facing African audiences.
He is producer for
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2001 Steps for the Future (TV Series documentary) (series producer - 3 episodes)
* Wa 'n Wina (2001) ... (series producer)
* Mother to Child (2001) ... (series producer)
* Body & Soul (2001) ... (series producer)
2002 Ho ea rona (Documentary short) (producer)
2004 Ask Me I'm Positive (Documentary) (producer)
2004 Story of a Beautiful Country (Documentary) (producer)
2007 The Mohammed Cartoons (TV Movie documentary) (executive producer)
2007
Please Vote for Me
''Please Vote for Me'' is a 2007 documentary film following the elections for class monitor in a 3rd grade class of eight-year-old children in the Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, China. The candidates, Luo Lei, Xu Xiaofei, and Cheng Cheng, compe ...
(Documentary) (producer)
2007
Taxi to the Dark Side
''Taxi to the Dark Side'' is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney, and produced by Gibney, Eva Orner, and Susannah Shipman. It won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It focuses on the December 2002 killing of ...
(Documentary) (executive producer: Steps International)
2007 Kinshasa 2.0 (TV Short documentary) (producer)
2010 Last White Man Standing (producer)
2011 Thato (Documentary short) (executive producer) / (producer)
2011
Mama Africa (Documentary) (producer)
2012 Land Rush (Documentary) (executive producer)
2012 Education Education (Documentary) (executive producer) / (producer)
Independent Lens (TV Series documentary) (executive producer - 5 episodes, 2007 - 2012) (producer - 1 episode, 2007)
* Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream (2012) ... (executive producer)
* Solar Mamas (2012) ... (executive producer)
* Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey (2008) ... (executive producer)
* Iron Ladies of Liberia (2008) ... (executive producer)
* Please Vote for Me (2007) ... (executive producer) / (producer)
2012 Poop on Poverty (Documentary short) (executive producer)
2012
Rafea: Solar Mama (Documentary) (executive producer)
2013 Gangster Backstage (Documentary short) (producer)
2016 Coming of Age (Documentary) (executive producer) / (producer)
Awards
Grierson Awards
The Grierson Awards are awards set up by The Grierson Trust to recognise innovative and exciting documentary films, created to commemorate the life and work of the pioneering Scottish documentary filmmaker John Grierson.
The inaugural Awards w ...
- 2008 Award for Most Entertaining Documentary
References
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Living people
South African film producers
1953 births
People from Cape Town