Edgar Barens

Edgar Barens (born 1961 or 1962 in Illinois ) is an American documentary film - producer , published in 2013 for his short film Prison terminal over a dying prisoner for Oscar in the category Best Short Documentary was nominated.

Life

Edgar Barens earned a Masters of Fine Arts from Southern Illinois University Film School and has been an active film producer since 1988 . He is the project manager of the Open Society Foundations for the Center on Crime, Communities & Culture , which deals with the judicial system in the United States and funds educational films .

He started filming for Prison Terminal back in 2006 and redeemed his pension fund for the necessary equipment . Despite grants from the Illinois Arts Council , the Open Society Foundations , the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois , the International Documentary Association and the Blue Mountain Center, there were repeated financial bottlenecks during production . Until the completion of the film in 2013, Barens worked in various jobs, including as a car salesman and as a medical employee taking blood .

Filmography (selection)

• Honey and Salt
• Waseca Prison Town
• Prison Industries
• A Sentence of Their Own
• Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall (2013)

Awards

Nominations

• 2014: Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film for Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

Web links

• Edgar Barens in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• A conversation with Edgar Barens. Interview on Prospect.org, accessed January 28, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Oscar nod goes to film on Iowa prison hospice. DesMoinesRegister.com, accessed on 28 January 2014 ( English ).
2. ^ A Conversation with Edgar Barens. Prospect.org, accessed January 28, 2014.
3. ↑ Prison Terminal: Crew. Official website for the film, accessed January 28, 2014.