Jeremy Marre

Jeremy Marre is a television director, writer and producer who founded Harcourt Films and has worked extensively around the world. Many of his films are on musical subjects. His reputation was made with the Beats of the Heart series, which introduced elements of what is now called world music, and its performers, to the Western world.The New York Times said of the series: "It can make your jaw drop regularly with astonishment." He has run director courses for the National Film and Television School, sat on the advisory boards for the British Library Sound Archive and the Arts Council of England, has broadcast widely on BBC radio, has written for The Times,New York Post and The Independent.

There have been retrospectives of his music films at the Florence Film Festival and on Channel 4.

Biography

Marre grew up and was educated in London. He read law and began training as a lawyer, before studying film at the Slade School and the Royal College of Art. He is married with two sons.

Marre

Marre is a commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.

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