Biography

Geoffrey O'Connor is an Academy Award nominated producer, writer and director who is best known as being a principle creative force behind the BAFTA Award-winning BBC-2 series "Weird Weekends" with writer/ presenter Louis Theroux. Geoffrey developed the participant-journalist model for "Weird Weekends", directed the series pilot and was the show's Senior Producer for several seasons. He was an Emmy Award-winning producer on Michael Moore's series "TV Nation" and he was nominated for an Academy Award for his independent documentary film "At the Edge of Conquest." Mr. O'Connor spent a decade independently producing documentaries and news stories about human rights abuses and environmental destruction in the Brazilian Amazon. He chronicled those experiences in his nonfiction memoir "Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier," which was a NY Times and LA Times "Notable Book of the Year" in 1997. His companion film "Amazon Journal" was nominated for a "Distinguished Documentary A

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