Biography

Award-winning director/writer/camera operator/producer David Ridgen is well-known from his CBC documentary investigative films. Recent works by Ridgen have been credited with the reopening of cold cases and arrests (i.e., Confession to Murder, A garden of tears), putting a Klansman behind bars for a civil rights era double murder (i.e, Mississippi Cold Case), making progressive impact on the Israel/Palestine issue (i.e, American Radical: the trials of Norman Finkelstein), and spurring victim reconciliation with perpetrators (i.e., Reconciliation in Mississippi). His Emmy-nominated company is expanded into long-form drama and new media production and he hosts the CBC's record-breaking and iconic true-crime podcast, "Someone Knows Something."
- IMDb mini biography by: David Ridgen