CHANCERS -Feature Doc (BBC) 90 minute Doc
The inside story of a blockbuster tax scam.
PRODUCED @ BLTV
DIRECTOR BEN LEWIS
BRETT: A LIFE WITH NO ARMS (BBC) 60 minute Doc
Fifty years ago Roger Graef made his first film about an Australian boy, born without arms after his mother had taken just one Thalidomide tablet for her morning sickness. Half a century later, Roger catches up with Brett back in Australia.
PRODUCED @ FILMS OF RECORD
DIRECTOR ROGER GRAEF
BILLIONAIRE’S PARADISE -“Inside Necker Island” (BBC) 60 minute Doc
A look behind the scenes at Sir Richard Branson’s private Caribbean island
PRODUCED @ PLUM PICTURES
DIRECTOR KARI LIA
PUSSY RIOT-A Punk Prayer (BBC/HBO) Winner Broadcast Awards 2015 Winner Special Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival 2013 Winner British Independent Film Awards (Best Documentary 2013) Oscar Shortlist (Best Documentary 2013) RTS Nomination (International 2013) GRIERSON Nomination (Best Documentary 2014) 90 minute Feature Doc
Filmed over the course of 6 months, this documentary tells the incredible story of 3 young women: Nadia, Masha and Katia. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond – young artists or the society they live in?
PRODUCED @ ROAST BEEF PRODUCTIONS
DIRECTED BY MIKE LERNER & MAXIM POZDOROVKIN
GOOGLE AND THE WORLD BRAIN (BBC) Nominee Grand Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival 2013 90 minute Feature Doc
HG Wells wrote of a computer that controlled everything. The film shows Googles attempts to scan all the worlds books and realise Wells’ dream.
DIRECTOR. BEN LEWIS.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY-A Year in the Life (BBC) 3×1 Hours for BBC2
DIRECTOR. FLAVIA RITTNER.
DIRECTOR. KATE SCHOLEFIELD
SPEED (BBC) Part of 3s “Our Crime” series. “Speed” takes a look at the consequences of young peoples addiction to it.
PRODUCED @ MINNOW. DIRECTOR DOV FREEDMAN.
REAGAN 102 minute, feature documentary for HBO/BBC. Winner EMMY Outstanding Historical Documentary 2012 Winner CINE Golden Eagle 2011 To mark the centenary of the birth of one of the most iconic figures in recent American politics, a documentary which examines the enigmatic career of screen star and two-term US president Ronald Reagan. He has been heralded as one of the architects of the modern world and since his death many Americans have been working to cement his legacy. But who was he and what did he stand for?
PRODUCED @ CHARLOTTE STREET FILMS.
DIRECTED BY EUGENE JARECKI. http://www.variety.com/review http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review
THE GREAT CONTEMPORARY ART BUBBLE Feature Documentary $86 for a Francis Bacon…$24 for a Jeff Koons…$100m for a Damien Hirst… A landmark, ninety-minute, international documentary on the new ‘Golden Age’ of contemporary art.
PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY BEN LEWIS @ BLTV
THE MYSTERY OF THE TEENAGE PREGNANCY PACT Unravelling the strange circumstances in which 18 American school girls became pregnant at the same time in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY JAMES QUINN @ OCTOBER FILMS
MOUNTAIN presented by GRIFF RHYS JONES. Winner Scottish BAFTA Best Factual Entertainment Programme 2007.
Griff starts his mountainous tour of Great Britain in the formidable Highlands of North West Scotland. This bleak and beautiful region is one of the most remote areas of Great Britain. Follow in his footsteps and find out more about the peaks and the people he encounters.
DIRECTED BY RUPERT SMITH
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER HAMISH BARBER
PRODUCED @ IWC MEDIA
BIN LADEN: DEAD OR ALIVE
Tracing the CIA’s interest in Bin Laden through the mid 90’s to present day. Using both archive and reconstruction to illustrate events, we interview both CIA operatives and Special Forces teams who were on the ground in Afghanistan.
DIR. MARK EVEREST
EXEC. PRODUCER ROY ACKERMAN @ DIVERSE
THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER
Winner, Best Human Rights Film, Amsterdam 2002. Nominated Best Picture, Amnesty International Media Awards 2002.
Henry Kissinger, Nobel Laureate and the most famous American diplomat in history. This 80 minute film investigates charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
PRODUCED BY ALEX GIBNEY @ JIGSAW/THINK TANK N.Y.C
DIRECTED BY EUGENE JARECKI
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ROY ACKERMAN
THE SEARCH FOR MALLORY & IRVINE Winner Canal Plus Award for Best Documentary 2002. Finalist, BAFTA Best Cinematography 2000. BBC Nomination, BAFTA & RTS Best Documentary 2000.
In the spring of 1924 a British expedition set out to conquer the as yet unclimbed peak of mount Everest. Two of the expeditions climbers, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine were last seen, 6 /800 metres below the summit. Was Everest scaled 29 years before Hilary and Tensing?
PRODUCED & DIRECTED @ BBC BRISTOL BY PETER FIRSTBROOK.
ULTIMATE ROCK CLIMB
WATCHDOG’s Julia Bradbury led by Tim Emmett one of the worlds top rock climbers, attempts to scale three of Britains toughest rock faces. The first in the BBC’s new Ultimate Outdoors series there was no guarantee Julia would be able to complete any of the climbs. Her adrenalin fuelled journey culminates in an attempt on Scotland’s Old Man of Stoer – a terrifying 60-metre high sea stack jutting out of the waves – her achievement is simply awesome.
DIRECTED BY PAUL COPELAND. EXEC PRODUCER SARAH SWINGLER.
PRODUCED @ DARLOW SMITHSON PRODUCTIONS.
A BABY TO SAVE OUR SON BBC Nominated, BAFTA Best Current Affairs Documentary 2003.
Tells the story of , Jayson and Michelle Whitaker, and their seriously ill son, Charlie. Their only hope of finding a cure for Charlie and saving his life is to use a controversial gene technology–produce a baby that is a perfect genetic match for Charlie and harvest stem cells from the baby’s umbilical cord.
We follow the Whitaker’s two-year journey through a minefield of emotions and ethical issues, from one continent to another, as they prepare to create one baby to save another
DIRECTED BY RACHEL COUGHLAN.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER EDWINA VARDEY.
BLOOD BROTHERS
The Story of Britain’s First Designer Baby. 60 minutes.
Following on from Baby to Save Our Son, this film charts the Whittaker families struggle from the beginning in 1999 to find a cure for their son, through to Charlies treatment in the summer of 2004. Dir Rachel Coughlan Exec Producer Edwina Vardey
THE 4 MINUTE MILE 60 minutes.
A film to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Roger Bannister’s record breaking sub 4 minute mile.
DIRECTED BY CARL HINDMARCH @ LION TELEVISION.
DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD 12×60 minute films.
The dramatic reconstructions of the assassination of Martin Luther King & the release of Nelson Mandela.
PRODUCED BY LION TELEVISION.
DIRECTED BY SRIK NARAYANAN.
ICEDOGS
6 x 30 minute documentaries. Modern day explorer/adventurer, Benedict Allen, visits Eastern Siberia, one of the worlds most remote and inhospitable environments.
Learning from the local Chukchi Indians he hopes to lead a dog team across 1500 miles of the most hostile terrain known to man.
PRODUCED BY JOHN HESLING
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BOB LONG
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? – Colin Jackson
Olympic hurdler Jackson, traces his roots back through Jamaica and Panama to Africa.
Series Producer Lucy Carter
Directed by Jackie Osei-Tutu @ WALL TO WALL TV
PIPE DREAMS
Follows one mans journey back to the Venezuelan Amazon to honour a promise he’d made 7 years earlier to a young Yanomami tribesman to take him on holiday to Britain.
PRODUCED @ CAFÉ PRODUCTIONS. DIRECTED BY DAVID GOODALE
QUEST FOR THE CARIB CANOE
The small and marginalised remaining Caribs of Dominica set out on a voyage to re-discover their heritage and raise awareness to their plight; by sailing a traditional 500 year old canoe back to their South American homeland in Guyana.
PRODUCED @ THINK TANK N.Y.C.
PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY EUGENE JARECKI
HARLEY STREET
8×30 minute films
Examines life on the worlds most famous medical street.
Exec Producer Narhinder Minhas @ DIVERSE.
DESIRABILITY
4 x 30 minute films, looking at disabled people working in the sex industry.
PRODUCED @ BBC.
DIRECTED BY ANN PORISIO
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PETER FIRSTBROOK.
