Edward Symes

Who is Edward Symes?

Edward Symes is a producer, director, cinematographer, and founder of Here and Now Films.

His 2008 documentary, Los Medicos, followed a US medical team working in a public hospital in rural Guatemala. Faced with a crowd of more than a thousand, and only one week to help, the film captures the humanitarian ideal as it collides head on with the scope of need and the complex nature of giving. The film premiered at the Jackson Hole Film Festival.

He began his career as an assistant to Academy Award winning documentary producer Grace Guggenheim and then continued on to work as assistant editor for CBS News in New York City. After leaving CBS, he focused his efforts towards online video, web design, and internet distribution, ultimately creating online content for the United Nations Development Programme and Project Hope.

As a cinematographer Symes worked on the global music project 1 Giant Leap documenting music contributions by Boots Riley, Michael Stipe, Eugene Hutz, Baaba Maal, Jhelisa Anderson, Haale, Miles Solay, and Speech. Interviews for the film included Earle Sebastian, Daniel Pinchbeck, and Anthony Lappe among others.