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1999 to 2008 SELECTED

 

 

DRAMA                                 

                                                Seams                         Director - Leanne Savill    HDCAM 1080P

 

                                                Bloodcount                 Director - Bernard Coughlan    35 mm

 

                                                Circumcise This!       Director - Ben Ginsberg    HDV

 

                                                Emma's Last Date    Director - Chris Thomas  HD 720P

 

                                                Dead of Winter          Director - Chris Thomas  HD 720P 

 

                                                Fast Food                    35 mm Feature film/ Second unit DP/ camera op

                                                 

                                                                                                                                                                                               

DOCUMENTARY                  

                                                The Trust    Hart Davies/ Channel Four - Bafta and Grierson winning

                                                obs/doc series on a hospital in Nottingham.5 x  60 mins/8 month shoot.

                                                Directors- Jonathan Smith, Jenny Crowther

 

Make Me Normal    Century films/ Channel Four -Bafta winning obs/ doc on

a school for autistic children. Director - Jonathan Smith

 

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

 

Wife Swap    RDF/ Channel Four. Vegan wife moves in with fast food husband

 

Banged up, Stand up    Century Films/ BBC 3. Can a group of Brixton prison

inmates learn stand up comedy in two weeks? Director Lisa Smith.

 

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    Channal 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. Exec producer Stephen Lambert

Director -  Norman Hull

 

Profile -  Carla Del Ponte    BBC 4 . Profile of UN war crimes prosecutor

Director -  Erin Cotter

 

First Love, Second Chance    Granada/ ITV 1. How would you react to going on a

date with your first love?

 

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

Director - Jonathan Smith

 

Dog Borstal series II & III    BBC 3. When dogs go bad

 

30 Minutes    Mentorn/ Channel Four current affairs series. Including Carol

Thatcher comparing  Tony Blair's foreign policy with that of her mother's. We were

allowed unique access into both Parliament and the Foreign Office.

 

Sex Rules    Raw TV/ Channel Four format obs/ doc series on sex in the 2000s

 

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 month shoot.

Directors - Anthony Wonke, Mark Soldinger, David O'neil

 

                                                Real Life- Essex Social services Emergency Team   Hart Davies/ ITV 1 obs/doc.

                                                Director - Jenny Crowther

 

CREDITS AS DIRECTOR/CAMERAMAN

 

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 chefs discovering the origins of the ingredients for their dishes. Shot all over the UK on farms, boats and in factories and restaurants. (Sony Z1)

 

THE DARK HEART OF ITALY (2005) – Director/ cameraman (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)

 

MAKING SLOUGH HAPPY (2005) - Location director/ cameraman. Optomen TV / BBC 2. Can a whole town be made happier? 6 Happiness experts have 2 months to find out. (DSR 570)

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