Producer/ director, currently working on a 10- part series ‘Fat Surgeons.’ With a background in factual documentaries for more than ten years, producing credits include the Emmy award winning docu-drama “Hindenburg”, and the critically acclaimed “Unsinkable Titanic” for Channel 4.
Skills
- Scheduling & budgeting; responsible for budgets of over a million pounds
- Managing complex co-productions
- Experience in obs doc/Specialist factual/Docu-drama/Factual entertainment/Drama shorts/Music promo
- Copyright/ clearance – literary and archive
- Writing approaches/ conceive and generate treatments/ primary research
- CGI & SFX Coordination
- Funding and project development
- Self-shooting
Selected Credits:
Current – Electric Sky Productions
SERIES PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: FAT SURGEONS
10 x 50 min series for UKTV. Obs doc series following bariatric surgeons Mr Shaw Somers and Mr Chris Pring as they perform life changing and often life saving surgery.
2010/ 11 – Pioneer Productions West
LINE PRODUCER: HOW DRUGS WORK
3 x 60 min for BBC three and Nat Geo, part obs doc, part science doc looking at Cannabis, Ecstasy and Cocaine. Set up regional production office at Pinewood Studios. TX Jan 2010.
LINE PRODUCER: DRUGGED
3 x 50 min reversion for Nat Geo. TX Jan 2010.
2006 – 2010
PRODUCER/ 2nd UNIT DIRECTOR – UNSINKABLE TITANIC
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-unsinkable-titanic/4od
1 x 90 min for C4/NAT GEO/DISCOVERY CANADA TX Nov 3rd ‘08
Drama documentary charting chain of events leading to the demise of Titanic. Canadian co-production.
Story development/ storyboarding/ budgeting
Directed documentary elements – including IV with the now late Millvina Dean, survivor of Titanic.
Drama shoot; coordination with Canadian co-production company in Montreal
Contracting crew/ casting UK actors with PACT equity agreements
Domestic Science Films/ Avenue A Razerfish
LINE PRODUCER ‘http://www.junkmonkey.tv/’
High profile multiplatform campaign for British Heart Foundation comprising of 6 x 90 second films involving
live action and animation.
Liaison with client and ad agency
Live action studio shooting
Location shooting; props buying; casting of children; responsible for health and safety
PRODUCER: HINDENBURG http://www.channel4.com/programmes/hindenburg/4od
C4/ZDF/SMITHSONIAN NETWORKS 1 x 100 mins, 1 x 89 mins. Shot in HD. TX ‘07
Factual drama about the Hindenburg airship disaster of 1937.
Involved from initial concept through to shooting, post prod and delivery
Coordinated complex SFX/ stunts/ pyro shoot; responsible for health and safety
Managed team of up 50 crew; liaising with heads of departments both British and Polish
Responsible for devising work flows for post production based on deliverable requirements.
2006
PRODUCER- KEYS TO THE CASTLE
HGTV 1 X 50 mins, shot in HD. Documentary presented by John Barrowman
A behind the scenes look at some of the finest Castles and stately homes in the UK
LINE PRODUCER- BIBLE REVOLUTION
C4/PBS 1 X 100 mins. Presented by Rod Liddle. TX April ‘07
Drama documentary. Drama shot in Poland.
Script breakdown and budgeting
Managed drama shoot involving pyrotechnics/ stunts/ crew of 50 people
Casting – UK and Poland
2005
PRODUCER- CHALLENGER: COUNTDOWN TO DISASTER
C4/NAT GEO 1 x 100 min, shot in HD. TX Feb ‘06
Drama doc marking the 20-year anniversary of the space shuttle disaster. Drama shot in Toronto on HD.
Coordination of SFX shooting/ models/ CGI
Crewing of key drama personnel in Toronto and UK
Script breakdowns
2004/5
ASSISTANT PRODUCER – AMAZON ADVENTURES
HISTORY CHANNEL 1 X 90 MIN, shot in HD.
Drama doc shot on location in the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon.
Various researcher/ AP roles from 2000 – 2005.
Education
2010
SKILLSET/ MEDIA SAUCE
How to sell our multiplatform content.
2009
FILM LONDON
Microwave film school
2006 2010
LIGHTHOUSE, BRIGHTON
Producer’s Clout
1996 – 1999
MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
BA (Hons) History of Film, Photography & Graphic Media (2.1)
1994 – 1996
HYDE-CLARENDON COLLEGE
2 A’ levels grade B + C
1989 – 1994
FAIRFIELD HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
9 GCSES grades A-C
Additional
US ‘I’ working visa | Own car & Clean UK driver’s license | References available upon request
