Edward Lawrenson is a London-based filmmaker. Uppland (2018) premiered at Cinéma du réel, and went on to play at various international festivals including Open City Documentary Festival, whilst Abandoned Goods (2015, co-directed with Pia Borg) won the Golden Leopard for Best International Short at the Locarno Film Festival, and also played at Sundance, amongst others. He has written on film for a number of publications, including Sight & Sound, Film Quarterly and Screen International, and was deputy editor of Sight & Sound. He is a Tutor at UCL for Open City Docs and also teaches at Kingston University.