Ed Radtke (Writer/Director)

Ed Radtke has made three independent feature films, including the award-winning BOTTOM LAND and THE DREAM CATCHER.  THE DREAM CATCHER garnered 11 awards at international film festivals and has been released worldwide.  THE VILLAGE VOICE described him as “a highly talented filmmaker” and LE MONDE called him a “shooting star”.

Ed Radtke has years of additional filmmaking experience, having served as a writer, producer, assistant director and editor on various projects including:  features, documentaries, TV movies, ITVS funded dramas, commercials and music videos. He has taught filmmaking at the university level, worked extensively with at-risk youth, taught media making to developmentally challenged adults and to prisoners.  He's lectured at Columbia and NYU, conducted workshops in Paris and in South America, is the recipient of 2 NEA production grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.

Radtke co-wrote the feature script AIME TON PERE, produced by Gerard Depardieu and starring Depardieu and his real life son, Guillame. The film was the official Swiss entry for Best Foreign Film consideration for the 2001 Academy Awards®.