Justin Edgar

Justin Edgar is an award winning writer and director of four internationally acclaimed feature films for backers including Film Four, Creative England and Pathe. His latest film The Marker starring John Hannah and Golden Globe nominee Cathy Tyson was acquired by Netflix. Justin graduated from Portsmouth University in 1996 with a first class degree in Film. He began his career writing and directing for BBC1's Doctors and for Anne Wood of Ragdoll Television, creator of Teletubbies. In 2001 he became the youngest director ever to direct a major UK feature film aged just 26. Large was backed by Film Four and went straight in at number one in the UK video charts. It sold to over twenty countries around the world. His second feature film Special People premiered at the 2007 TriBeCa Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival where it competed for the Michael Powell Award. It went on to win best film awards at the Berlin Britspotting and Moscow Perspektiva film festivals and a R