James Marsh’s MAN ON WIRE premiered at the Sundance film festival in January 2008. The film took both the Jury Prize for best film and the Audience Award in the World Documentary section. The film is a partly dramatized re-telling of an outrageous plot by a group of French artists to rig a high wire between the Twin Towers for aerialist Philippe Petit to perform on in 1974. MAN ON WIRE has won an Oscar for best documentary feature this year. An Oxford University graduate, Marsh originally worked as a director for the BBC. He then directed a series of award winning and critically acclaimed documentaries known for their visual as well as their interesting subject matter. His breakthrough documentary, TROUBLEMAN (1994), chronicled the last years of soul singer Marvin Gaye and his murder at the hands of his father, a fundamentalist preacher and occasional transvestite. This was followed by THE BURGER AND THE KING (1996), a documentary about Elvis Presley’s bizarre eating habits as told by those who cooked for him at Graceland. Marsh’s dramatized documentary film WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP is an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the 19th century. Marsh’s first dramatic feature THE KING was selected for entry at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. A tale of jealousy and revenge set in the American Bible belt, the film stars Gael Garcia Bernal and William Hurt. The film was co-written with Oscar nominated screenwriter Milo Addica. Recently Marsh finished shooting a feature adaptation of David Peace’s crime novel NINTREEN EIGHTY, starring Paddy Considine (THE CINDARELLA MAN, THE BOURNE CONSPIRACY). NINTEEN EIGHTY is produced by UK Broadcaster Cannel 4, and is set for worldwide theatrical release in 2009. James Marsh lives in Copenhagen with his wife and two children.