John Chester

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1971-08-03 (54 years old)

Place of Birth

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

John Chester

Biography

John Chester is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and television director. His recent short films for OWN's Super Soul Sunday (including Saving Emma, Worry for Maggie, and The Orphan) have won five Emmy Awards, for outstanding directing, writing, and cinematography, among others. Chester's first primetime television docu-series aired on A&E, Random 1, which he directed and starred in 2006. The series inspired his feature documentary Lost in Woonsocket which premiered at SXSW in 2007. Chester also directed the documentary Rock Prophecies, about the rock photographer Robert Knight, which won three audience awards for best documentary feature and ...

Acting

Production

2019

The Biggest Little Farm

as Director of Photography

2009

Rock Prophecies

as Director

2022

2009

Rock Prophecies

as Director of Photography

2009

2009

Rock Prophecies

as Executive Producer

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