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Justin Edgar was born on 18 August, 1971 in Handsworth, Birmingham, United Kingdom, is a British film director, screenwriter and producer. Discover Justin Edgar's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 52 years old?

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Age 52 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 18 August 1971
Birthday 18 August
Birthplace Handsworth, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1971

Justin Edgar (born 18 August 1971) is a British film director, screenwriter and producer.

Born in Handsworth, Birmingham, Edgar left school with no qualifications because he regularly played truant to watch movies at the nearby Odeon.

1991

He had a string of dead-end jobs before enrolling on a Sutton College media course from 1991 to 1993 where he used the basic equipment to make films.

"It was really, really bog standard stuff and the edit suite was simply two VHS machines joined together. But I used to stay there until last thing at night until the caretaker came to kick me out."

1996

He graduated from Portsmouth University in 1996 with a first class degree in film.

1998

In 1998 he directed the short comedy Dirty Phonecalls for ITV's First Cut scheme.

As with all of his work it was shot in his native Birmingham.

It became a worldwide festival hit and won the 1998 BBC Drama Award at the Birmingham Film Festival.

2002

The success of Dirty Phonecalls led to his first feature film Large, which was released in UK cinemas in 2002.

Shot on a budget of £1.6 million, Large was backed by Film Four and went straight in at number one in the UK video charts.

It sold to over twenty countries around the world.

2003

He cites his own short film Round which used the architecture of Birmingham's iconic Rotunda building as a location prior to its renovation in 2003.

His company 104 Films is named after a bus route in the city.

2004

Edgar runs 104 Films, a company established in 2004 which provides training and opportunities for disabled people in the film industry.

Edgar himself is hard of hearing and has said that it is a personal passion of his to put "disability in the conscience behind the camera as much as in front of it".

The company have completed many projects for London Olympics, the British Film Institute and Creative Skillset.

2005

His 2005 short Special People won Best Film at the 2005 Chicago International Film Festival, Best Drama at the 2006 Royal Television Society Awards, the BBC New Filmmakers Award and was shortlisted for the 2007 Oscars, BAFTAs and Turner Classic Movies Prize Shorts.

Also shot in 2005, real-time crime drama The Ends won best short at the 2005 Raindance Film Festival in London and was nominated for the Golden Horseman Award at Dresden film festival.

It also won the Big Issue Film Award and was shown on Channel 4 and cable TV throughout Europe.

2007

His second feature film Special People premiered at the 2007 Edinburgh International Film Festival in competition for the Michael Powell Award, gaining great public and critical acclaim.

2008

It opened the 2008 London Disability Film Festival and won best film at the Britspotting Film Festival in Berlin.

The film was released in the United Kingdom in November 2008 to positive reviews.

2012

Edgar shot his third feature film We are the Freaks in March 2012.

2013

It was screened at the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival in competition for the Michael Powell Award.

In 2013 Edgar was invited to meet Her Royal Highness the Queen in respect of his work in disability and film.

104 Films have produced or co-produced feature films related to disability including Special People, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, and I am Breathing.

2014

It was released in the UK by Metrodome and Netflix on 25 April 2014 Guy Lodge in Variety called the film "crass but cute" and Allan Hunter in Screen Daily said it was a "likeable, breezy British teen comedy".

Andrew Blair in Den of Geek noted the film's "political bent" and "anger bubbling under its surface".

2016

Notes on Blindness, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was released in UK cinemas in June 2016.

2017

His fourth film The Marker premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2017 to generally positive reviews.

It is described as a noir thriller starring Scottish actor John Hannah, Frederick Schmidt, Cosmo Jarvis, Golden Globe nominated actress Cathy Tyson and Romanian actress Ana Uluru.

The Wee Review stated it was "A well-crafted noir thriller that satisfies the sadistic cinema goer with its darkly uncompromising take on the genre".

Another critic commented “A shocking, dark, vicious, violent, forceful, engrossing, touching, beautiful film!

2018

The film of the Edinburgh Film Festival.” In February 2018 it premiered on Netflix.

Edgar has said that the UK city of Birmingham "has become my film set and I love it".

He regularly uses the city as a location.

He contributed to the book Remaking Birmingham - The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration in which he outlines the importance of architecture in the city's cinematic representations.

He discusses the heritage of Birmingham as a base for broadly comic cinema in his essay "Take me Higher - Birmingham and Cinema".

2020

In a 2020 interview, Edgar spoke about his grandfather, who was a committed pacifist and conscientious objector during World War Two.

He also mentions his mother, a peace activist for the Peace Pledge Union.