Craig Marsden Bio

Craig is currently in post-production on an untitled feature-length documentary to be completed in mid-2007, which is fiscally sponsored by the Independent Feature Project. He is also adapting Margot Livesey's novel THE MISSING WORLD, which he will direct. He recently completed three shorts, P.G.R. BARLETTA, IZZY AND THE TALKING CURE, and WHAT I CAME FOR, starring Tim Hopper and Robin Weigert (a 2004 Emmy award nominee for her work on the HBO original series Deadwood). IZZY recently screened at the Ybor Film Festival in Florida and SIlverlake Film Festival in L.A.. Some of his photo-collages can be found in the essay collection In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors, edited by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson, available in September, 2006.

His short film, LA LEÇON received top prize at the South By SouthWest Film Festival, a Silver Hugo from The Chicago International Film Festival, as well as NYU’s First Place Wasserman Award and a Scorsese Post-Production award from NYU and screened at over forty festivals around the world –including Sundance, LAIFF, Raindance, Aspen Shortsfest, Clermont-Ferrand, as well as on IFC in the U.S. and Canal Plus in Europe.

Other projects include illustration and multimedia work, some of which can be found on lazslo, the original screenplay The Same River Twice and a video/performance collaboration with MacArthur Award-winning musician/composer Ornette Coleman, commissioned by the Perugia Jazz Festival. He has worked as an assistant editor on Wayne Wang’s "Chinese Box," and Harmony Korine’s "Gummo", among others.

In 2006, he was awarded a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation for filmmaking, as well as residencies at the Experimental Television Center. Craig has also been a visiting artist-lecturer at Hampshire College and recipient of grants and Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, The Blue Mountain Center, Warner Brothers, and The Florence J. Gould Foundation.

Minnesota-raised, Craig Marsden lives in New York City. He was graduated from NYU’s grad film program and Wesleyan University, and studied with the Barrow Group Theatre Company.