Bio
Director, cinematographer, editor and writer Rustin Thompson's latest film is The Last Picture Shows, due for release in 2026. His most recent completed films are Died Without Issue, Slow Revolution, and My Mother Was Here. Thompson is also the author of Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking, published by Oxford University Press in Feb 2019, and available in bookstores, online, in libraries and universities. Thompson's other feature films include 2000’s 30 Frames A Second: The WTO in Seattle, which won several Best Documentary awards and was named one of the Top Ten films of the year by the American Library Association, False Promises, The Church on Dauphine Street, Quick Brown Fox: An Alzheimer’s Story and, Zona Intangible, set in a Peruvian squatter community. All of his films are available on his Vimeo page. Thompson and his wife and filmmaking partner Ann Hedreen, own White Noise Productions, which makes cinematically-driven, doc-style short films for non-profits. Thompson is also host of the popular Americana program, Road Songs, on 91.3 KBCS.FM. He began his career as a news cameraman and editor and is a graduate of the University of Washington.