Geoffrey O'Connor(I)

Geoffrey O'Connor is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker best known as being the principle directorial force behind the BAFTA Award-winning BBC-2 series "Weird Weekends" with writer/ presenter Louis Theroux. Geoffrey created that series' participant-journalist model, directed the pilot and he was the program's Senior Producer. In 2022, he teamed up with RJ Cutler's "This Machine" to develop a four-part series and he is the executive producer of the 2022 investigative documentary "Make People Better," which exposes the rogue practice genomic engineering in China. In 2021, Geoffrey was short-listed for a Cannes' "Lion Award" for a documentary about a unique prison reform program in Washington State. And in 2019 he produced and directed a BBC-2 documentary with Louis Theroux entitled "Surviving the Most Hated Family," which is a follow-up to their breakout 2007 hit "The Most Hated Family in America." In the 1990s, Geoffrey independently produced four documentaries about land wars and environmental devastation in the Brazilian Amazon earning him an Academy Award nomination for the short film "At the Edge of Conquest" as well as an IDA "Best Documentary" nomination for the nonfiction film "Amazon Journal," which ran on PBS. Geoffrey chronicled his experiences in the Brazilian rainforest in the NY Times and LA Times "Notable Book of the Year" entitled "Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier." A citizen of the U.S. and Ireland, Geoffrey lives in New York but splits his time on directing assignments between the UK where he works for BBC-2 and the U.S. where he freelances for a variety of production companies.