John Chester
Known for
Directing
Born
August 3, 1971 (age 55)
Birthplace
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Biography
John Chester is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and television director. His recent short films for OWN's Super Soul Sunday (including Saving Emma, Worry for Maggie, and The Orphan) have won five Emmy Awards, for outstanding directing, writing, and cinematography, among others. Chester's first primetime television docu-series aired on A&E, Random 1, which he directed and starred in 2006. The series inspired his feature documentary Lost in Woonsocket which premiered at SXSW in 2007. Chester also directed the documentary Rock Prophecies, about the rock photographer Robert Knight, which won three audience awards for best documentary feature and was distributed nationally on PBS in 2010.
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Best known work
The Biggest Little Farm
2019
The Biggest Little Farm: The Return
2022
Rock Prophecies
2009Random 1
2005Filmography
2022
The Biggest Little Farm: The Returnas Self, Director, Executive Producer
2019
The Biggest Little Farmas Self - Narrator, Director of Photography, Director, Writer, Producer
2009
Rock PropheciesDirector, Executive Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
2005