Marshall Curry - Documentary Filmmaker - Street Fight, Racing Dreams, and If A Tree Falls

Before his commercial success, Marshall worked as senior producer at Icon Nicholson, a New York multimedia design firm. Marshall is a graduate of Swarthmore College where he majored in Comparative Religion.  Marshall got his start shooting, directing, and editing the documentary Street Fight, which followed Cory Booker's first run for mayor of Newark, NJ. The film went on to be nominated for both an Academy Award and an Emmy. After Street Fight, Marshall was the Director and Producer, as well as one of the Cinematographers and Editors of the feature documentary, the award winning film, Racing Dreams. Racing Dreams follows two boys and a girl who dream of one day racing in NASCAR.  Marshall's newest documentary, If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front, tells the story of a radical environmentalist who faced life in prison for burning two Oregon timber facilities, which won the Sundance Film Festival award for Best Documentary.