Joshua Oppenheimer was born in 1974 in Texas. He has worked for over a decade with militias, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination.

Educated at Harvard and Central St Martins, London, his award-winning films include "The Globalization Tapes" (2003, co-directed with Christine Cynn), "The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase" (1998, Gold Hugo, Chicago Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival), "These Places We've Learned to Call Home" (1996, Gold Spire, San Francisco Film Festival), "The Act of Killing," (2012) and numerous shorts.

Oppenheimer is Senior Researcher on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Genocide and Genre project and has published widely on these themes. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Filmmaking, Film Editing, Copenhagen, Denmark, Denmark, Genocide, Documentary, Film Industry Television & Film,