Theo Anthony
Theo Anthony is an American filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland. He writes, directs, edits, and often shoots his own documentaries. He studied cinema theory and creative writing at Oberlin College and attended Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School in 2014.
His breakthrough short Chop My Money, shot in the Eastern Congo with music by Dirty Beaches, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and later became a Vimeo Staff Pick. In 2015 he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film and finished the short Peace in the Absence of War, which premiered at Rotterdam in 2016 and visited the 2015 Baltimore protests after Freddie Gray’s death.
Anthony’s first feature, Rat Film (2016), uses Baltimore’s rat problem to explore the city’s history of segregation and inequality. It premiered at Locarno and played at Rotterdam, SXSW, and Copenhagen, and later aired on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2018. The film earned nominations at the 2017 Gotham Awards (Best Documentary and Audience Award) and its score by Dan Deacon was nominated at the 2018 Cinema Eye Honors.
His next film, Subject to Review (2019), is an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about the Hawk-Eye computer-vision system in tennis, and it premiered at the New York Film Festival. In 2020 he announced All Light, Everywhere, a feature about perception and surveillance, which premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
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