Rupert Murray
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Rupert Murray is a film director working in London. Murray began by making television documentaries for Channel Four's Cutting Edge series including Playing For England and Seconds To Impact (cameraman and editor), and short films Outsiders and This Was My War, co-directed with Beadie Finzi.
In 2005 he directed British documentary film
Unknown White Male
, the story of an Englishman Doug Bruce
living in New York who experienced retrograde amnesia
. The film premiered at Sundance
and was nominated for a Grierson
award, a British Independent Film Award and a Directors Guild of America
award.
The film was greeted with some scepticism from film critics in the USA on release, several of whom believed it was an elaborate hoax. The filmmakers have consistently rejected this allegation. Influential film critic Roger Ebert
of the Chicago Sun-Times
said that he was "convinced of its truthfulness".
In 2007 he directed "Wild Art: Olly and Suzi
" for BBC Storyville.
Murray also directed The End of The Line, a documentary about the effects of overfishing. The film was shown at Sundance
2009 and has resulted in major retailers changing their fish sourcing policy,.
He is currently working on a film about climate sceptics for the BBC.
In 2005 he directed British documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
Unknown White Male
Unknown White Male
Unknown White Male is a 2005 documentary film directed by Rupert Murray, covering the life of his childhood friend Doug Bruce, a British resident of New York who appeared to suffer from sudden amnesia, who woke up on a subway train in Coney Island in 2003, not knowing who or where he was.The film...
, the story of an Englishman Doug Bruce
Doug Bruce
Doug Bruce is the subject of Rupert Murray's 2005 documentary film Unknown White Male.Bruce claims to suffer from an extremely rare, and possibly purely psychological, form of retrograde amnesia. It is alleged that this has left his episodic memory blank for his entire life prior to the onset of...
living in New York who experienced retrograde amnesia
Retrograde amnesia
Retrograde amnesia is a loss of access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an injury or the onset of a disease....
. The film premiered at Sundance
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
and was nominated for a Grierson
Grierson
Grierson may refer to:* Clan Grierson* Grierson * Grierson's Raid* Grierson Spring, TX* Grierson was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915; formerly named Ulysses before 1895....
award, a British Independent Film Award and a Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of America is an entertainment labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry...
award.
The film was greeted with some scepticism from film critics in the USA on release, several of whom believed it was an elaborate hoax. The filmmakers have consistently rejected this allegation. Influential film critic Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...
of the Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of the Sun-Times Media Group.-History:The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city...
said that he was "convinced of its truthfulness".
In 2007 he directed "Wild Art: Olly and Suzi
Olly and Suzi
Olly and Suzi, Olly Williams and Suzi Winstanley, are two British artists who specialise in collaborative painting of wildlife.-Biography:Olly and Suzi originally began working together after meeting as students as the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 1987, and graduated together...
" for BBC Storyville.
Murray also directed The End of The Line, a documentary about the effects of overfishing. The film was shown at Sundance
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
2009 and has resulted in major retailers changing their fish sourcing policy,.
He is currently working on a film about climate sceptics for the BBC.