About

Eddie Bolger

Eddie is a documentary filmmaker based in Berlin. Originally from the UK, his work includes films produced for the Derek Jarman Lab and short commissions for BBC Ideas.

Bio

Masterschool Dokumentarfilm, Filmwerkstatt Münster, (Oct. – Dec. 2023)

Selection for professional development programme for documentary filmmakers with feature project DAS PEPERONI FRIEDENS MUSEUM

Producer, Short Documentaries, Freelance (2020 – ongoing)

Producer/ director for independent short documentary projects • See “Selected Works” on this website for highlighted projects,  commissions, screenings and festivals

Producer, Piratelove, Münster, Part-time (2021 – 2023)

Producer, cinematographer and editor for corporate and image films • Clients included Würth, Ströer, Mapei, IHK NordWest

Producer, Derek Jarman Lab, Freelance (2016 - ongoing)

Development and production of short documentary commissions (BBC Ideas, University of Oxford etc.) • Camera work on feature documentary THE SEASONS IN QUINCY (2016) and for upcoming doc THE HEXAGONAL HIVE (dir. Tilda Swinton)

Head of Film, Mindful Education, London, Part-time (2016 – 2020) 

Production and post-production manager for educational films • Automated workflow optimisation with Adobe ExtendScript

Executive Assistant to Duncan Kenworthy OBE, Toledo Productions, London (2012 - 2015)

Managing office and diary of BAFTA Vice-President Duncan Kenworthy • Assistance in the development and budgeting process of various feature film and TV projects •  Production assistance on BAFTA-nominated feature THE PASS (2016)  

MRes Humanities and Cultural Studies, London Consortium (2011 - 2012)

Interdisciplinary master’s programme in Cultural Studies • Dissertation on Buster Keaton, Samuel Beckett and the close up in early cinema.

BA English Literature, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge (2008 - 2011)

Bachelor’s study in Literary Criticism • Dissertations on early modern joke pamphlets and late-modernist poet Veronica Forrest-Thomson