Marshall Curry is a documentary

Documentary film

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 filmmaker. His first feature-length film, Street Fight

Street Fight (film)

Street Fight is a documentary by filmmaker Marshall Curry, chronicling Cory Booker's 2002 campaign against Sharpe James for mayor of Newark, New Jersey...

, was nominated for an Academy Award and a News and Documentary Emmy. His second film, Racing Dreams, won Best Documentary and was runner up for the Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival

Tribeca Film Festival

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 in 2009. His third film, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front is a documentary film by filmmaker Marshall Curry, exploring the origins, motives, and organization of the Earth Liberation Front and Eco-terrorism in general...

, won the award for Best Documentary Editing at the Sundance Film Festival 2011. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Early life

Before his commercial success, Curry worked as senior producer at Icon Nicholson, a New York multimedia design firm.

He is a graduate of Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College

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 where he majored

Academic major

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 in Comparative religion

Comparative religion

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. He was also a Jane Addams Fellow at Indiana University

Indiana University

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’s Center on Philanthropy

Philanthropy

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