A young girl thinks a man in the candy bar line looks like her dad.

Director Biography

Nash Edgerton is a writer, director, producer, actor, editor and stuntman.

The multi-hyphenate has directed two feature films—Australian film noir THE SQUARE and Mexico-set action caper GRINGO, starring David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron and Joel Edgerton—as well as music videos for artists such as Bob Dylan and several acclaimed short films including SPIDER, BEAR and SHARK.

Nash is also one of the founders of Blue-Tongue Films, a film collective responsible for features such as JUDY & PUNCH, a dark fairy-tale which he produced, THE KING, a medieval epic on which he worked as second-unit director, and the highly acclaimed FX series MR INBETWEEN, described by The New York Times as one of the best shows of 2021, which he directed and executive produced all three seasons.

Most recently he was the set up director for the Netflix series BODKIN, an Irish set dark comedy series starring Siobhán Cullen, Will Forte and Robyn Cara.

CANDY BAR is Nash’s latest short film and stars his daughter Zumi Edgerton and Damon Herriman who also wrote it.