Jerry Rothwell

Jerry Rothwell

Biography

Jerry Rothwell's award-winning feature documentaries include: DONOR UNKNOWN (winner Royal Television Award), about a sperm donor and his many offspring, TOWN OF RUNNERS (winner Royal Television Award), about a group of people with learning disabilities who form a punk band, and DEEP WATER, about Donald Crowhurst's ill-fated voyage in the 1968 round the world yacht race (winner of Best Cinema Documentary at The Rome Film Festival and winner of a Grierson Award for best Cinema Documentary). His next film will be SOUR GRAPES for Netflix and Arte co-directed with Reuben Atlas. At Met Film Production, he has Executive Produced and worked as an editor on numerous feature docs including Dylan Williams' MEN WHO SWIM and Sarah Gavron's THE VILLAGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD.

Hamptons International Film Festival

Director

Documentaries
2023

The Enfield Poltergeist (series)

 

Entanglement (E04)

 

This Thing (E03)

 

Forces Unknown (E02)

 

The Happenings (E01)

2020

The Reason I Jump

2018

The School in the Cloud

2017

1968mm (series)

2016

Sour Grapes

2015

How to Change the World

2012

Town of Runners

2010

Donor Unknown

2008

Heavy Load

Ads

Ads

2006

Deep Water

Screenwriter

Editor

Documentaries
2010

Men Who Swim