Rupert Murray (born 28 May 1969) is a film director working in London. Murray began by making television documentaries for Channel Four's Cutting Edge series including Playing For England and Seconds To Impact (cameraman and editor), and short films Outsiders and This Was My War, co-directed with Beadie Finzi. In 2005 he directed British

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

'' Unknown White Male'', the story of an Englishman

Doug Bruce Doug Bruce (born 1967) is an English-American photographer. He is the subject of Rupert Murray's 2005 documentary film '' Unknown White Male''. Bruce claims to suffer from an extremely rare, and possibly purely psychological, form of retrograde ...

living in New York who experienced

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. The film premiered at

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and was nominated for a Grierson award, a

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and a

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award. The film was greeted with some scepticism from film critics in the USA on release, several of whom believed it was an elaborate hoax. The filmmakers have consistently rejected this allegation. Influential film critic

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of the ''

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'' said that he was "convinced of its truthfulness". In 2007 he directed ''Wild Art:

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'' for BBC Storyville. Murray also directed '' The End of The Line'', a documentary about the effects of overfishing. The film was shown at

2009 and has resulted in major retailers changing their fish sourcing policy. He also worked on a film about

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for the BBC.Meet the climate skeptics
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