Theo Anthony is a filmmaker and photographer based in Baltimore and Upstate New York.
His first feature documentary, RAT FILM, premiered to critical acclaim, with a successful festival and theatrical run followed by a broadcast premiere on PBS Independent Lens in early 2018.
Theo is the recipient of the 2018 Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Fellowship and the 2019 Sundance and Simons Foundation Science Sandbox Fellowship.
In 2015, he was named to Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
A documentary filmmaker talks us through the steps of his latest project — a wooden stool.
Filmmaker Theo Anthony offers a far-ranging look at the biases in how people see things, focusing on the recorded image.
SUBJECT TO REVIEW charts the rise of the instant replay system Hawk-Eye in professional tennis, probing how the technology exposes deeper questions of spectacle, justice, and imperfect human knowledge.
Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. "Rat Film" is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat—as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill them--to explore the history of Baltimore.
A portrait of a confused city in pain. A tone-poem for a Baltimore at the juncture of unrest and healing, as the city responds to the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray, a Black American Baltimore native, who died in police custody.
A day in the life of three street kids in the Eastern Congo. Featuring music by Dirty Beaches.