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independent filmmaker, media educator

ED RADTKE has made three features, including Bottom Land and The Dream Catcher. The Dream Catcher garnered 11 awards at film festivals worldwide and has been released globally. He has years of additional filmmaking experience, having served as a writer, producer, assistant director and editor on various projects including: features, documentaries, TV movies, ITVS funded dramas, commercials and music videos.

Radtke has taught filmmaking at the university level, worked extensively with at-risk youth, taught media making to developmentally challenged adults and to prisoners. He's lectured at Columbia and NYU, conducted workshops in Paris and South America, is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts production grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.

Radtke co-wrote the feature AIME TON PERE, produced by Gerard Depardieu and starring Depardieu and his real life son, Guillame. The film was the official Swiss entry for Best Foreign Film consideration for the 2001 Academy Awards®. Radtke lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and recently finished his third feature THE SPEED OF LIFE, for which he received the Rockefeller Fellowship. THE SPEED OF LIFE premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2007, where it received a Special Jury Prize.

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