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Producer

Gender

Male

Birthday

05 August

Location

California, United States

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Greg Barker

Biography

Greg Barker is an American filmmaker and producer. In 2011, The New York Times described Barker as “a filmmaker of artistic and political consequence.”

 

Previous films include Sergio (short-listed in 2010 for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, winner of the Best Editing Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival); Ghosts of Rwanda (winner of the 2004 DuPont Columbia award and The Robert F. Kennedy Award for International Reporting); Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden (Grand Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival 2013, Winner of Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special and Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming); and The Final Year (Toronto International Film Festival 2017).

 

He directed his first narrative feature Sergio (2020) for Netflix. It premieres at the Sundance Film Festival 2020.

 

Barker now lives in California and is married to the soprano Harriet Fraser.