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      Geoffrey O'Connor is an Emmy Award Winning and Academy Award-nominated director, series creator, DP and investigative journalist. He is best known as being the principle directorial force behind the BAFTA Award-winning BBC-2 series "Weird Weekends" with writer/ presenter Louis Theroux. He created the participant-journalist model for "Weird Weekends", directed the series' pilot and was the show's Senior Producer for several seasons. He is currently an executive producer on Random Good's  "The Last Dive," written and produced by Mark Monroe, directed by Cody Sheehy.  That same team collaborated on the 2022 investigative documentary thriller "Make People Better." Geoffrey is developing a two-part documentary for PBS about the history of brainwashing and he'll begin production on an investigative, true crime documentary in early 2025.

       Mr. O'Connor has produced, photographed and directed ten unscripted programs for BBC-2 in collaboration with presenter Louis Theroux including their acclaimed 2007 documentary "The Most Hated Family in America" about the extremist cult group known as the Westboro Baptist Church.  In 1995, Geoffrey won an Emmy for his role as a producer on Michael Moore's "TV Nation" and he went on to produce, write, shoot and direct another dozen documentary programs for CNN, National Geographic, PBS and The New York Times.  He was nominated for an Academy Award for his film "At the Edge of Conquest" and his feature documentary, "Amazon Journal," was an IDA "Best Documentary Feature" nominee .
       In 2021, Geoffrey created and directed the AMV BBDO short documentary "Cats in Prison," which has over a million hits on YouTube and was short-listed for a "Cannes Lion." His chronicle of making documentaries in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, "Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier," was published by Plume/Dutton and was a New York Times / LA Times "Notable Book of the Year." Educated at The London School of Economics, Columbia University and The American Film Institute, Geoffrey O'Connor is a U.S. and Irish citizen living in New York City, home to his family and his company Copious Pictures.