about ed.

Ed has shot, directed, and edited two feature films shot on super 16mm. He also was one of the major independent producer/director/camerapersons who worked in New Orleans Post-Katrina, and is also intimately attuned to the complex political issues at play in the recovering city. Ed is now editing down his New Orleans documentary work. Using cutting edge High Def equipment, Ed produces top notch work for a variety of clients. Currently, Ed has returned to Hollywood to continue his feature film making career.

At age eight, Ed learned photography from his father in Ohio. He began making films during college at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and then at the renound Eastman School of Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.

Ed worked most of his adult life in New York City as a top advertising photographer for national clients such as R.J. Reynolds and Jim Beam Brands. He has produced projects involving large scale productions involving talent, crew, and expense budgets. Ed is known throughout the industry for producing top quality creative work with a unique cinematic eye. He knows how to budget, schedule, and create a shoot from the ground up. He is famous for illustrating the covers of mystery and vintage noir novels, by publishers throughout the world, for authors like Dashiell Hammett, Jim Thompson, Cornel Woolrich, and Eric Ambler, among others.

Ed came to New Orleans to finish work on a script he is developing on the 1950's Ninth Ward. However, Post Katrina, he shifted gears to produce documentary and hard news stories as a matter of civic responsibility. Ed has just now returned to promote this next feature film, Cassidy's Girl.