Bob Edwards

A graduate of Stanford University’s MA program in documentary film, Robert Edwards has been a working screenwriter for 22 years. His first script, the political satire Land of the Blind, won a Nicholl Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2001 and became his directorial debut, starring Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland. It had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2006, its US premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, and its UK premiere as the Opening Night Gala Film of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in London.

His most recent writing and directing effort was When I Live My Life Over Again (aka One More Time) starring Christopher Walken and Amber Heard, which premiered at Tribeca in 2015. Over the course of his career, Edwards has written for studios including Warners, Fox, Universal, Sony, and HBO, and for directors including Bennett Miller, Mike Newell, Mark Romanek, Neil Labute, and Antoine Fuqua. Currently, he is writing The Beirut Spy about Kim Philby for director Susanne Bier, and The Goldsboro Incident for director Gavin Hood.