Rupert Russell

Rupert Russell is a writer, director, and author.His feature debut, Freedom for the Wolf, charted the global crisis of democracy, won the Audience Award at the Slamdance Film Festival and was nominated for the Cinema for Peace 'Most Valuable Film of the Year' Award during Berlinale 2019.His animated series on the Trump phenomenon, How the World Went Mad, premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest and earned him a spot on the shortlist for the Young Director Award at Cannes Lions 2019.Price Wars, his investigation into the chaotic decade of the 2010s, is both a documentary film that aired on ARTE and a book published by Doubleday (Penguine Random House) in the US and Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Hachette) in the UK.He has a PhD in Sociology from Harvard University, and received a Double Starred First in the Social and Political Sciences from Jesus College, Cambridge University. Show less «