Ted Passon

Ted Passon is a co-founder of All Ages Productions, and an award-winning director whose films and series have played at the Sundance Festival, The Berlin Film Festival, The Toronto Film Festival, The Venice Biennale, Hot Docs, and many others. Awards for his work include the primetime Emmy Award for “Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking”, a Peabody Award, the Gotham Award for “Best Nonfiction Series”, a dupont-Columbia Award, the Sundance Producing Award for Nonfiction, the Humanitas Prize for “Best Feature Documentary”, the “Unforgettable” Award at the Cinema Eye Honors, a Webby Award for “Best Feature Length Documentary”, The Audience Award at both the Camden International Film Festival and Hot Docs. His work has been twice nominated for an Independent Spirit Award including “Best Documentary” and “Best Nonfiction Series”.

His feature film PATRICE THE MOVIE (HULU) was named “One of the best documentaries of the year” by Vogue and became one of the “Most Liked Documentaries” on Hulu. PHILLY D.A. (PBS) an 8-part series co-directed with Yoni Brook was hailed as “one of the best TV shows of the year” by TIME, The New York Times, Variety, The Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter , The Washington Post, Vulture, Vogue, Slate, Indiewire, and The New Yorker. Ted also developed and directed episodes of the 8-part series, WORN STORIES (Netflix) which has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and was the 5th most watched show in the US on Netflix when it premiered.

He has written and directed over eight original children’s television series for Disney and Comcast. As a commercial director he has worked with clients such as: NIKE, Google, NBC, Guinness, GAP, Urban Outfitters, Ford, Hendrick’s Gin, Sailor Jerry Rum, Pilsner Urquell Beer, and others. His commercials have won both gold and silver Addy Awards.

He has directed or produced projects for musical artists such as: St. Vincent, Kim Deal, Tierra Whack, Blood Orange, Kurt Vile, The National, Dr. Dog, Dan Deacon, Spank Rock, The Darkness, Kimya Dawson, Plastic Little, and others.