John Chester

John Chester is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and television director. His recent short films for OWN’s Super Soul Sunday (including Saving Emma, Worry for Maggie and The Orphan) have won five Emmy Awards, for outstanding directing, writing, and cinematography, among others. Chester's first primetime television docu-series aired on A&E, Random 1, which he directed and starred in in 2006. The series inspired his feature documentary Lost in Woonsocket which premiered at SXSW in 2007. Chester also directed the documentary Rock Prophecies, about the rock photographer Robert Knight, which won three audience awards for best documentary feature and was distributed nationally on PBS in 2010. 

For other people named John Chester, see John Chester (disambiguation).

His project The Biggest Little Farm is a feature-length film that chronicles the 8-year story of Apricot Lane Farms, the regenerative farm he and his wife Molly started in 2011. The film premiered at the 2018 Telluride Film Festival [1] and Toronto International Film Festival and 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and releases May 2019 in theaters nationwide. In 2018, Chester began a 3-year book deal with publisher Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan for a spin-off children’s book series featuring characters from the film, of which the first installment Saving Emma the Pig is scheduled for release in 2019.[2]

Filmography

Awards
  • 2018 Emmy Award Special Class – Outstanding Writing “The Orphan” [4]
  • 92nd Oscars Shortlist - Documentary Feature

References
  1. Debruge, Peter; Debruge, Peter (1 September 2018). "Telluride Film Review: 'The Biggest Little Farm'". Variety. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  2. "Saving Emma the Pig". US Macmillan. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  3. "The Biggest Little Farm (2018)". IMDb. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  4. Hipes, Patrick; Hipes, Patrick (28 April 2018). "Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards: 'Bold And The Beautiful', 'Sesame Street' Top Winners". Deadline. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
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