THE BIO

      Geoffrey O'Connor is an Emmy Award-winning producer and Academy Award-nominated director, DP, writer and producer.  He is a series creator best known as being the principle directorial force behind the BAFTA Award-winning BBC-2 breakout series "Weird Weekends" with writer/ presenter Louis Theroux. Geoffrey created the participant-journalist model for "Weird Weekends", directed the series' pilot and he was the show's Senior Producer. He is currently a co-producer on Random Good's  The Last Dive premiering at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival. He's also the story consultant on the 2026 feature documentary We Shall East When the River Is Full by native Canadian filmmaker Banchi Hanuse.  In 2025, Geoff began production on his first investigative podcast series as a creator, co-host and executive producer being created in partnership with a leading U.S.  true crime podcast company.

     In 2022, Geoffrey was an executive producer on the investigative documentary thriller Make People Better.  His past collaborations as as a DP, producer and director include ten unscripted programs for BBC-2 in collaboration with presenter Louis Theroux among which includes their acclaimed 2007 documentary "The Most Hated Family in America" about the extremist Christian group known as the Westboro Baptist Church.  Geoffrey has produced, written, photographed  and directed another dozen documentary programs for HBO, CNN, National Geographic, PBS and The New York Times.  He was nominated for an Academy Award for his independent  film At the Edge of Conquest. His feature documentary, Amazon Journal (PBS), was an IDA "Best Documentary Feature" nominee.

        Mr. O'Connor's written 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  and 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.