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Patrick Creadon
American film director
Patrick Creadon (born May 4, 1967) is an American filmmaker primarily known for his work in documentaries. His first film, Wordplay, profiled New York Timescrossword editor Will Shortz and premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The film screened in over 500 theatres nationwide and became the second-highest grossing documentary of that year.[1] His second film, I.O.U.S.A., is a non-partisan examination of America's national debt problem and forecast the 2007–2008 financial crisis. I.O.U.S.A. premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival[2] and was later named one of the Top 5 Documentaries of the Year by film critic Roger Ebert.[3]
Other works include the documentary features If You Build It (2013), the ESPN30 for 30 film Catholics vs. Convicts (2016), and Hesburgh (2019). He also works as a commercial and television director.
Creadon is one of only a handful of filmmakers to have multiple films ranked among the Top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time simultaneously. Other f
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Wordplay: The Official Companion Book
As companion books go, this one is pretty thin. There's a brief summary of some but not all of the interviews featured in the film, an expanded and funny chapter written by Merl Reagle on how to construct a crossword, and a chapter about the film's debut at Sundance. The text itself can be read in about an hour. The book's selling point is that it contains a lot of the crossword puzzles discussed in the film, e.g., the infamous Election Night 1996 and the Roy G. Biv puzzles, which crossword junkies have likely already completed either when they were initially published or reprinted in one of the NYT puzzle collections. However, there are also a number of puzzles constructed just for this book, as well as the puzzles used in the 2005 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, with inst
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Wordplay
More than 50 million Americans do crossword puzzles each week. Wordplay follows New York Times puzzle editor Will Shortz, his fans and contributors, and champion solvers at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, exposing the madness and mirth behind this not-so-puzzling national obsession.
Patrick Creadon was born in Chicago and is a 1989 graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He began his career as one of the youngest cameramen in the history of PBS, shooting and producing cinema-verite style stories for the critically acclaimed series The 90s. He earned his master’s degree in cinematography at the American Film Institute, where his…Show morethesis film (on which he served as director of photography) was nominated for a student Academy Award. As a cameraman his work has appeared on every major network, including NBC, CBS, ABC, MTV, VH1, and ESPN. He has also done work for Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Sony, Universal Studios, and Disney. Wordplay, Creadon’s feature-length directorial debut, is a documentary film about The New York
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