Voices With Impact in conversation with Edmund Stenson.

Edmund Stenson’s work as director spans both documentary and fiction and focuses on social issues, loners and nomads. He most recently directed BLINK, a National Geographic feature about the Lemay-Pelletier family, who dropped everything and traveled the world after learning three of their four children were losing their vision. Before that, he was an associate editor on BAFTA- and Oscar®-winner Navalny (2022), a documentary-thriller about the Russian dissident’s poisoning. In 2018, he directed the award-winning Finding Fukue, the viral success that has amassed over 14.5 million views online; and in 2021, The Martyr, a gothic fairytale about medieval super villain Gilles de Rais, which premiered at Flickers Rhode Island, and won Best Short Doc at Atlanta Shortsfest and FilmQuest. Stenson is also somewhat obsessed with the Chilean filmmaker/magician Raúl Ruiz, as well as another kind of magician: Leicester City talisman Jamie Vardy.