As a multiple prize winning filmmaker, Erik Knudsen’s films include Goodwin Island (98 minutes, fiction, 2024), True Calling (88 minutes, fiction, 2021), Cleft Lip (84 minutes, fiction, 2018), The Raven On The Jetty (88 minutes, fiction, 2015), The Silent Accomplice (84 minutes, fiction, 2011), Vainilla Chip (17 minutes, Documentary, 2009), Heart of Gold (40 minutes, documentary, 2006), Sea of Madness (86 minutes, fiction, 2006), Brannigan’s March (99 minutes, fiction, 2004), Bed of Flowers (50 minutes, documentary, 2001), Signs of Life (70 minutes, fiction, 1999), Reunion (50 minutes, documentary, 1995), One Day Tafo (70 minutes, documentary, 1991).

Erik runs his own film production company, One Day Films Ltd. He is also creatively engaged with photography, exemplified through projects such as his photographic essay, Cuba in Waiting, which was exhibited at the Cervantes Institute in Manchester (2013) and Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax (2014) and is available as a book. His personal project entitled Doubt is a photographic and poetic book, combined with a film. This work had its opening exhibition in Manchester, UK, during January 2018 and was also exhibited at Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, UK, from October 2018 to January 2019.

Erik Knudsen is also Emeritus Professor at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in the UK, where he was formerly the Faculty Director of Research for the Faculty of Culture and Creative Industries. Prior to joining UCLan, Erik was a Professor of Visual and Digital Culture at Bournemouth University’s Media School. He has also been Professor of Film Practice at the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, where he was for a period of time Head of the School of Media, Music and Performance. During his many years at the University of Salford, Erik also acted as the University of Salford’s Director of Graduate Studies. Earlier roles at the University of Salford include programme leading the MA in Fiction Film Production, the MA in Television Documentary Production and the MA in Wildlife Documentary Production. Prior to his University of Salford tenure, he was Head of Production at the Northern Film School at Leeds Beckett University. Alongside his current role, Erik is also Visiting Professor, and the former Head of the Editing Department, at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba. He writes extensively about creative film practice and his latest book, Finding The Personal Voice In Filmmaking, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. He is principal investigator on two recent Arts and Humanities Research Council grants: StoryLab International Film Development Research Network (2016 - 2018) and StoryLab Skills Training for Democratised Film Industries (2019 - 2020). StoryLab Research Network has since grown to include working with film festivals, such as the Peloponnesus Documentary Film Festival, 2022, and the ongoing Wind Wolves Preserve Archaeology project in California, USA.