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DoP CREDITS 1999 to 2011 SELECTED

DRAMA


Caravan 9
                       Director - Leanne Savill    RED MX 4K RAW

Seams
                           
Director - Leanne Savill    HDCAM

Bloodcount                     Director - Bernard Coughlan    35 mm

Emma's Last Date           Director - Chris Thomas    HD P2

I Shouldn't Be alive
        Director - Steve Murphy   Canon 5D
                                       Darlow Smithson drama reconstruction

Escape From Crete         Director - Chris Lethbridge   HD
                                       World Media Rights drama reconstruction

DOCUMENTARY


Planet Food - The Cote d'Azur
Pilot TV/ Discovery
1 x 60 mins presenter and cook Rosie Lovell discovers the amazing produce and cuisine of the south of France.
Director Ian Sciacaluga

Bazaar Arts Trail - The Cote d'Azur
Pilot TV/ Discovery
1 x 60 mins presenter Kate Comer discovers the reasons why Cezanne, Renoir, Picasso and Cocteau lived and painted in the south of France.
Director Ian Sciacaluga

Globetreker London
Pilot TV/ Discovery
1 x 60 mins presenter Brianna Bri travels around London by Route Master bus, boat and bicycle.
Director Tony Lee

The Truth About Child Brides
Blast! TV/ BBC 3
1 x 60 mins presenter Nel Hedayat visits India and Bangladesh to find out what life is like for a child bride.
Director Maninderpal Sahota

Help! My House Is Falling Down
Redhouse TV/ Channel Four
1 x 60 mins. Sarah Beeny comes to the rescue of a woman whose house is sinking into the ground
Director Lou Mason

Startup Stories - BBC Web Site
Interviews with successful entrepreneurs in India, Singapore, the UK and Silicon Valley in the USA.
Producer - Neil Keonig

Kill it, Cut it, Use it
Dragonfly/ BBC 3
2 x 60 mins films presenter Julia Bradbury discovers how we use every last bit of the animals we kill.
Director Kashaf Chaudhry

Undercover Boss
Studio Lambert/ Channel Four
1 x 60 mins obs/ format doc. The new boss of Harry Ramsden's fish and chip chain goes undercover to experience what life is really like on the shop floor. 
Director - Suzanne Lynch

Baby Beauty Queen Series
Landmark films/ BBC 3
2 x 30 mins obs/ docs on children's beauty pageants and dancing competitions.
Director - Clare Richards

Aged 8 and Wanting a Sex Change - A Channel Four Body Shock Special
Zig Zag/ Channel Four. 1 x 60 mins doc
Highly controversial film on children as young as 8 years old wanting to change their sex.
3 weeks shoot in USA on HDCAM.
Director - Alex Berk
Exec prod Brent Baker    Channel Four commissioning editor Simon Dickson

Seven Faces in Seven Days - Transparent TV/ Channel Five

1 x 60 mins doc . A team of top British plastic surgeons travel to Vietnam to perform life changing operations on children with severe facial deformities.
Director Suzanne Lynch    Exec Richard Hughes

Bleach, Nip, Tuck - The White Beauty Myth
Wildcard/ Channel Four. 2 x 60 mins obs/ docs, on the highly controversial topic of people from ethnic minorities undergoing plastic surgery so that they can look less ethnic and more western.
Director - Krish Majumdar      Exec prod Narinder Minhas.

I'm Running Sainsbury's
Silver River/ Channel Four. Obs/ doc. Sainsbury's staff will try radical ideas to transform the company's stores in one of Channel 4's major factual entertainment series for this year
1 x 60 mins, part of series of 4 for 2009.
Director - Ed Kellie
Series director Dave Nath      Exec prod Dan Adamson

The Trust
Hart Davies/ Channel Four. Bafta and Grierson winning obs/doc series on a NHS Trust hospital in Nottingham. 5 x 60 mins/ 8 months shoot.
Directors - Jonathan Smith, Jenny Crowther
Exec producer Guy Davies     Channel Four commissioning editor Peter Dale

Make Me Normal
Century films/ Channel Four. Bafta winning obs/ doc on a school for autistic children.
Director - Jonathan Smith     Channel Four commissioning editor Simon Dickson

Faking It - Drag Queen
RDF/ Channel Four. Can an ex naval officer fake it as a drag queen in just 4 weeks?
Director - Jenny Crowther

Shipwrecked 2008,2009
RDF/ Channel Four. Sun, sea and.... in the south pacific

Poison Pen 
Siguy/ BBC 1. The Story of a mysterious letter writer who terrorized a quite Yorkshire village for twenty years.
Director - Norman Hull

The Bay City Rollers Lost Millions
Channel 4. They were one of the biggest bands of the seventies but what happened to all the money they made?
Director - Norman Hull

A Salford Lad
AVP/ BBC2 Modern Times. A portrait of one of Manchester's most notorious gang leaders, this film has gone down in TV history because of events that happened on the last night of filming.
Director - Norman Hull     Exec prod Stephen Lambert

First Love, Second Chance
ITV 1. How would you react to going on a date with your first love?
Directors - Wendy Ottewill, Suzanne Lynch. 2 x 60 mins programmes.

One Life
Mentorn/ BBC 1 obs/ doc. A mother and son both dying of cancer.
Director - Jonathan Smith

Dog Borstal series II, III, IV
BBC 3. When dogs go bad. BBC Exec Clare Sillery

Amsterdam - City of Sin
Hart Davies/ Channel Four obs/ doc series on sex, crime and art in Europe's sin city. 3 x 60 mins/ 4 months shoot.
Directors - Anthony Wonke, Mark Soldinger, David O'Neil

Real Life - Essex Social services Emergency Team
Hart Davies/RDF ITV 1 x 60 mins obs/doc.
Director - Jenny Crowther
Exec prods Stephen Lambert, Guy Davies


CREDITS AS SELF SHOOTING PD

Baboon Woman (2009) - Location producer/ director
1 x 60 mins programme - Firecracker Films / C5, Animal Planet
I spent 6 weeks on my own filming the amazing work of South African baboon expert Karin Saks.(HDV)
Exec producer Mark Soldinger

The Great British Menu (2006) - Location producer/ director
20 x 30 mins programmes - Optomen TV/ BBC 2
I scripted and directed 40 x 3 mins video inserts of the celebrity chefs discovering the origins of the ingredients for their menus. (Sony Z1)
Exec producer Nicola Moody

The Dark Heart Of Italy (2005) - Director/ cameraman (including scripting, editing)
1 x 30 mins programme - Hart Davies Productions/ BBC 4
Writer/Journalist, Tobias Jones, explores his adopted home town of Parma to uncover the extremes and contrasts of Italian life. (PD 170)
Exec producer Guy Davies

I have travelled extensively, visiting some of the most remote and hazardous countries of the world e.g. India, Singapore, Korea, Vietnam, China, Russia, Cameroon, Rwanda, Uganda, Irian Jaya, Mexico, Cook Islands - South Pacific, South Africa, USA, Argentina, Sri Lanka.
 
I am experienced in using many different camera formats including film, REDRAW, HDXDCAM,  HDCAM, Canon 305,  DSR, Z1, Ex1, Canon 5D and mini cams.



 

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