Stuart  Edwards

Stuart Edwards

Freelance Self - Shooting Director


Location:
Edinburgh
Career stage:
Experienced

Freelance

Availability:
Available

Industries

  • Film
  • Unscripted TV

About

Stuart Edwards is a Royal Television Society award winning self - shooting Documentary filmmaker based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Stuart graduated from Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University in 2012 with a 1st class Honours Degree in Photographic & Electronic Media. In 2014 he graduated from the Scottish Screen Academy, Edinburgh College of Art with an MFA in Documentary Film Directing. The companies & organisations Stuart has worked for include Ridley Scott Associates, Vice Magazine, Alzheimer Scotland, Unroofed Records, Registers of Scotland, Railroad Records, Arika, Hibrow, Sunstore Technologies, Flux Video, Raw Film Productions, Glasgow Film, Pink Saltire, 7 Wonder & See Me Scotland.

Stuart's Short film - A Wee Night In - Won Best Postgraduate Camera Work & was Nominated for Best Postgraduate Factual at the Royal Television Society Student Awards 2015. In November 2014 the film was nominated for Best Student Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the largest documentary film festival in the world. The film has gone on to play at AFI DOCS In Washington DC and was recently the Winner of Best Documentary at the Student International Film Festival. The film is continuing to screen internationally.

E-learning

See which ScreenSkills e-learning Stuart Edwards has completed to improve their skills and knowledge.

Expired

Coronavirus basic awareness on production training

Completed

Diversity, equity and inclusion for the screen industries

Not completed

Safeguarding for all: basic awareness for the screen industries

Not completed

Tackling harassment and bullying at work

Not completed

Addressing unconscious bias: basic awareness in the workplace

Not completed

Introduction to mental health awareness at work

Not completed

Experience

  1. Freelance Self - Shooting Director

    Freelance · Aug 2014 - Present

  2. Self - Shooting Producer, Director & Editor

    See Me Scotland, Glasgow Film · Jun 2016 - Oct 2016

  3. Self - Shooting Producer, Director & Editor

    Pink Saltire · Jul 2016 - Sep 2016

  4. Self - Shooting Director

    7 Wonder · Jan 2016 - Mar 2016

  5. Self - Shooting Producer, Director & Editor

    Sunstore Technologies · Oct 2014 - Sep 2016

  6. Self - Shooting Director

    Ridley Scott Associates · Dec 2013 - Jan 2014

  7. Camera Operator

    Vice Magazine · Dec 2011 - Dec 2011

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Education and training

  1. Coronavirus basic awareness on production training

    ScreenSkills Test · Aug 2020

    ScreenSkills Funded

  2. Distinction MFA - Documentary Directing

    Edinburgh College of Art, Screen Academy Scotland · Sep 2012 - Jul 2014

  3. 1st Class BA Hons BA Hons Photographic & Electronic Media

    Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University · Sep 2008 - Jul 2012

Stuart  Edwards

Stuart Edwards

Freelance Self - Shooting Director


Location:
Edinburgh
Career stage:
Experienced

Freelance

Availability:
Available

Industries

  • Film
  • Unscripted TV