Peter Webber

Peter Webber (born 1968) is a British director who is best known for his debut feature film Girl with a Pearl Earring and Hannibal Rising. Webber made his first short film, The Zebra Man, straight out of film school. He then worked as a film editor, beginning his association with Girl with a Pearl Earring producers Andy Paterson and Anand Tucker on Tucker's drama debut, Saint-Ex, starring Miranda Richardson and Bruno Ganz. As an award-winning documentary director his subjects ranged from Richard Wagner to crash test dummies via a series on the creatures of the deep oceans and The Curse of the Phantom Limb. Moving back into drama, he directed Simon Russell Beale as Franz Schubert and explored the counter-culture of tunnel-dwelling road...