Red Riding: 1980

James Marsh is a film director known for directing the cult film Wisconsin Death Trip starring Marcus Monroe and Sir Ian Holm. He won 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for directing Man on Wire. Marsh lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, with his wife and two children. As an undergraduate,... he studied at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. James Marsh began his early career in directing with several documentaries made for the BBC. His first TV documentary was the 90 minute, Troubleman - The Last Years of Marvin Gaye, and was followed by The 26 minute 1990 documentary The Animator of Prague starring Jan Svankmajer's and his works. Later came The Burger and the King: The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley , in 1995, and the Welsh musician John Cale, which was made in 1998. His relationship continued with the BBC as a producer in 1993 for 3 Arena series episodes. In 2005 he directed the film The King which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. In 2008 he made the documentary Man on Wire, about Philippe Petit's walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
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