Ed received a B. A. in Literature and Film under the supervision of film historian Jay Leyda at Yale University. He got his practical film training with Satyajit Ray in India, Luis Bunuel in France, and work on independent feature films in the United States. His first film, "Pharaoh's Dream", an experimental short, was shot in Calcutta and Los Angeles.
I Build The Tower (2006) the feature-length documentary film about Simon Rodia and the Watts Towers of Los Angeles was produced with Simon Rodia's nephew, Brad Byer.
Ed has been an advocate and an artist working in Watts for the past 40 years.