Edmund Stenson

Profile

Edmund Stenson’s work as director spans both documentary and fiction and focuses on social issues, loners and nomads. Most recently, he directed BLINK (2024), a National Geographic feature about the Lemay-Pelletier family, who dropped everything and traveled the world after learning three of their four children were losing their vision. Before that, he was an associate editor on BAFTA- and Oscar®-winner NAVALNY (2022), a documentary-thriller about the Russian dissident’s poisoning and Netflix hit series THE PROGRAM (2024).

In 2018, he directed the award-winning FINDING FUKUE (2018), the viral success that has amassed over 15 million views online; and in 2021, THE MARTYR (2021), a gothic fairytale about medieval super villain Gilles de Rais, which premiered at Flickers Rhode Island, and won Best Short Doc at Atlanta Shortsfest and FilmQuest.