Patrick Creadon
| Patrick Creadon | |
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Creadon on location in 2005
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| Born |
May 1, 1967 Chicago, Illinois, US |
| Residence | Los Angeles |
| Alma mater | University of Notre Dame |
| Occupation | Independent documentary filmmaker |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Home town | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Patrick Creadon (born May 1, 1967) is an American film director and writer, primarily known for his work in documentary film. His film Wordplay, a profile of New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and became the second-highest grossing documentary of that year. His second film, I.O.U.S.A., an examination of America's debt problem which forecast the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was later named one of film critic Roger Ebert's Top 5 documentaries of the year.
Since 2006, Creadon is one of only a handful of filmmakers to release multiple films that were ranked within the Top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time. The other filmmakers are Werner Herzog (Encounters at the End of the World, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) and Academy Award winners Michael Moore (Sicko, Capitalism: A Love Story), Charles H. Ferguson (No End in Sight, Inside Job), and Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for 'Superman' ).
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