Peter Ettedgui
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- McQueen (2018)
- Rising Phoenix (2020)
- Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)
Peter Ettedgui | |
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| Occupations | Director, writer, and producer for mostly documentary films |
| Years active | 1999–present |
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Peter Ettedgui is a British film writer, director and producer. Along with his professional partner Ian Bonhôte, he has made documentaries including McQueen (2018), Rising Phoenix (2020) and Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024).
Ettedgui and Michael Ignatieff co-wrote the screenplay for Onegin, a 1999 romantic drama based on Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.[1] In 2005, he was a co-producer of Kinky Boots.[2]
Ettedgui wrote the 2018 documentary McQueen about fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and co-directed it with his professional partner Ian Bonhôte.[3] The film was nominated for Outstanding British Film and Best Documentary at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards in 2019.[4]
In 2020, Ettedgui and Bonhôte directed Rising Phoenix, a documentary about the Paralympic Games.[5] Ettedgui, who is Jewish, and Bonhôte, who had a Jewish grandmother who survived the Holocaust, were inspired by the story of Paralympics founder Ludwig Guttmann, who also fled Nazi Germany.[6] The film won the award for Outstanding Long Sports Documentary at the Sports Emmy Awards in 2021.[7] It was a nominee for Best Documentary at the British Independent Film Awards 2021.[8]
Ettedgui and Bonhôte wrote and directed Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story about Superman actor Christopher Reeve, in 2024.[9] The film won the award for Best Documentary at the 78th British Academy Film Awards.[10] The pair were also nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program and Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards.[11]
