A decade ago, Patrick Reed abandoned a PhD program in History (with a focus on genocide studies) to work on documentaries, first as a writer/researcher, then as a director. Many of his films explore human rights issues in a vérité style, following compelling characters as they struggle with the past and present.
Reed has collaborated with Peter Raymont on several White Pine Pictures’ award-winning productions over the years, playing a key creative role on Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire.
Reed directed Tsepong: A Clinic Called Hope, a cinema vérité chronicle of the work of doctors and nurses fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Lesotho, Africa. Tsepong received the 2006 Deborah Fletcher Award from the Canadian International Development Agency for Best Documentary dealing with international issues. It is also a multiple Gemini Award nominee and has been screened internationally at various film festivals.
His film Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma had its world premiere at the 2007 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)and its North American premiere of at Sundance 2008.
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