Eddie moved to Canada with his family when he was 12. He attended the
University of Manitoba and earned an undergraduate degree in Film
Studies/Theatre in 2001.
After finishing university, he lived in Scandinavia for a year
participating in internships as a camera assistant with the television
station Stod 2 in Iceland and the film production house Aarhus
Filmvaerksted in Denmark.
He is the great nephew of prolific orchestrator Edward B. Powell
(1909-1984), who was active with 20th Century Fox from the 1930s
through to the 1960s.