Rustin Thompson

Rustin Thompson is a writer and filmmaker who has made six feature length documentaries, beginning with 30 Frames A Second: The WTO in Seattle (2000), which won several Best Documentary awards, was named one of the Top Ten films of the year by the American Library Association, and one of the Best Undistributed Films of 2001 by The Village Voice. He is also the author of Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking (Oxford University Press 2019). His latest documentary, a memoir film, is called My Mother Was Here. He is a former CBS News cameraman and national Emmy award winner. He has written film criticism for Moviemaker, Crosscut, and KBCS.FM, where he is the longtime host of the Americana program Road Songs. Along with his wife and filmmaking partner Ann Hedreen, they own White Noise Productions, where they've made more than 150 short documentaries for non-profits. He is a graduate in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Washington and lives in Seattle.