Geoffrey OConnor

Geoffrey O'Connor is an Academy Award nominated director, series producer and investigative journalist best known as being the principle directorial force behind the BAFTA Award-winning BBC-2 series "Weird Weekends" with writer/ presenter Louis Theroux. Geoffrey created the participant-journalist model used in the hit series "Weird Weekends", directed the pilot and was the show's Senior Producer for several seasons. In 2022, Geoffrey partnered with RJ Cutler's "This Machine," the company behind such breakout nonfiction films as "The War Room," "The September Issue" and "Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry," to develop a four-part nonfiction series for streamers. He has been developing a second nonfiction series cult series and podcast with a UK broadcaster which will soon be made public. Geoffrey served as an executive producer on the investigative nonfiction thriller "Make People Better," which premiered at the 2022 "Hot Docs Film Festival and his short form documentary "Prison Cats" was shortlisted for a Cannes Lion. Geoffrey won an Emmy for his producing work on Michael Moore's series "TV Nation" in the mid 1990s and in 2010 he was the directing-shooter on HBO's "Exporting Raymond," which launched the career of Phil Rosenthal on Netflix ("Somebody Feed Phil"). Geoffrey continues to work for the BBC where he has directed ten programs in collaboration with Mr. Theroux. Their most recent collaboration is the 2019 BBC-2 production "Surviving The Most Hated Family," a follow-up to their much praised and widely viewed 2007 documentary "The Most Hated Family in America," Both films were acquired by HBO Max in 2021. Mr. O'Connor chronicled his experiences making documentaries about environmental destruction and human rights abuses in his nonfiction memoire "Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier.," which was a New York and LA Times "Notable Book of the Year.." In 1993, a documentary he made in the Brazilian Amazon, "At the Edge of Conquest" was nominated for an Academy Award and Geoffrey was educated at The London School of Economics, Columbia University and The American Film Institute. He is a U.S. and Irish citizen who lives with his family in New York City, home to his company Copious Pictures. He is represented for directing work by Natalie Spanier at Stern & Wild in London.