About

 Ted Passon is an award-winning filmmaker and video artist.

Ted created and directed the highly anticipated PBS docuseries PHILLY D.A., along with his fellow creators: co-director Yoni Brook and producer Nicole Salazar. The unprecedented series centers around Larry Krasner, the civil rights lawyer, who became the most controversial District Attorney in America. With incredible real-time behind-the-scenes access the series captures an historic moment of change in the American the criminal justice system that is rippling through the rest of the country. Over the course of eight episodes, PHILLY D.A. explores the most pressing social issues of our time—police brutality, the opioid crisis, gun violence, and mass incarceration—through the lens of an idealistic team of outsiders attempting an overhaul from within the system. The docuseries’ two first episodes picked up praise from numerous publications when it premiered at Sundance and later at Berlin this winter, Variety wrote “No matter what side of the political spectrum viewers find themselves, “PHILLY D.A.” is an eye-opening exploration inside a powerful big-city government office.” The Hollywood Reporter called it: “an extraordinarily promising start”, Screen Rant said it was, “riveting… the fast-moving, over-the-shoulder, fly on the wall pressure-cooker pace conveys perfectly the importance of the life-and-death issues”, while Vox’s Alissa Wilkinson said, “incredibly engaging filmmaking, I can’t wait to see the rest.” The series premieres on PBS on April 20. 

Ted recently directed three episodes of the upcoming Netflix series WORN STORIES premiering April 1. The docuseries —adapted from Emily Spivack’s New York Times best-selling book—explores the connection between clothing and memory. By turns funny, tragic, poignant, and celebratory, each episode is based on a theme and features a mix of dynamic interviews with inspiring cultural figures and storytellers, beautifully animated sequences, and archival footage to bring these captivating and often surprising stories to life. The eight- episode series offers new ways to think about our clothes, ourselves, and our shared human experiences. Ted’s production company All Ages Productions produced multiple animations for the series. 

Ted is a 2018 Sundance Catalyst Fellow and a 2016 Sundance Lab Creative Summit Fellow. He is also the recipient of the Pew Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship Grant and the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant. He has been the recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation, the International Documentary Association, Wyncote Foundation, and Vital Projects.

Ted has written and directed over eight original children’s television series for Disney and Comcast. He produced the web series, THE ADVENTURES OF JAMEL THE TIME TRAVELLING B-BOY (created by Jasyon Musson aka Hennessey Youngman). As a commercial director he worked with clients such as: Google, NBC, Guinness, GAP, Oprah Winfrey Network, Urban Outfitters, Ford, Hendrick’s Gin, Sailor Jerry Rum, and others. His commercials have won both gold and silver Addy Awards.

As a former member of the Space 1026 art collective his video installations have been shown in galleries around the US and abroad. He collaborated with musician Tender Forever on live music and interactive video performances for the Whitney Museum, French Institute Alliance Francais, and the TBA Festival. Ted was a 2016 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

He has directed and produced projects for musical artists such as: Blood Orange, The National, St. Vincent, Dan Deacon, Spank Rock, Kurt Vile, The Darkness, Kimya Dawson, Dr. Dog, Plastic Little, and others. His music video for Plastic Little’s track “Dopeness” was named “One of the Best Music Videos of the year” by both GBH.tv and “The Reel” UK.

He is a co-founder of All Ages Productions, a full service film and video production company.

 

 

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