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DoP CREDITS 1999 to 2010 SELECTED

DRAMA


Seams                        Director - Leanne Savill    HDCAM

Bloodcount                 Director - Bernard Coughlan    35 mm

Emma's Last Date       Director - Chris Thomas    HD P2

DOCUMENTARY

Startup Stories - BBC Web Site
Interviews in the USA and UK with successful entrepreneurs.
Producer - Neil Keonig

Undercover Boss
Studio Lambert/ Channel Four
1 x 60 mins obs/ format doc
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

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

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

Banged Up, Stand Up
Century Films/ BBC3. Can a group of Brixton inmates learn stand up comedy in just 2 weeks?
Director - Lisa Smith

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

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.

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

Making Slough Happy (2005) - Location director/ cameraman
Series - Optomen TV/ BBC 2
Can a whole town be made happier? 6 happiness experts have 2 months to find out. (DSR 570)
Exec producer Nicola Moody



 

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