Fred is a hands-on executive producer and creative showrunner known for delivering ambitious, award-winning documentaries and features for global audiences.He has delivered limited series, feature length singles and long-running returning formats, taking projects from the first spark of an idea through greenlight, production, and delivery. His work... Read More

Fred is a hands-on executive producer and creative showrunner known for delivering ambitious, award-winning documentaries and features for global audiences.He has delivered limited series, feature length singles and long-running returning formats, taking projects from the first spark of an idea through greenlight, production, and delivery. His work spans access-driven unfolding narratives, archive-led retrospectives, and drama-doc hybrids, combining cinematic visual ambition with rigorous journalism. While his slate covers a broad range of subjects, he specialises in deep dives into contemporary culture — from tech power brokers and online subcultures to drug dealers, and organised crime groups. He has secured and conducted high-profile interviews with figures including Tony Blair, Biz Stone, Monica Lewinsky, and Jane Fonda, alongside hard-to-reach insiders, and whistleblowers. He has made programmes for Hulu, CNN, National Geographic, Discovery, the BBC, A&E and many others.Fred's current project is October Film’s as showrunner on This Land Is Our Land, a major CNN Originals six-part series examining America’s contested past and what it reveals about the country today. The series blends sweeping, cinematic landscapes with intimate, vérité-style testimony and drama recre, bringing natural-history scale to deeply personal stories. It is set for release on CNN and HBO Max in June 2026. He directed the drama and key expert interviews.A showrunner with strong creative vision, Fred has a background in directing and continues to direct key interviews and sequences, bringing a filmmaker’s eye to everything he produces. He is particularly known for shaping complex narratives in the edit, navigating high-stakes legal and rights issues, and building trust with contributors in sensitive or high-risk environments.His recent work includes Twitter: Breaking the Bird, the critically acclaimed CNN Originals/BBC series charting the rise and moral collapse of the world’s most influential social media platform. The series received four-star reviews across the UK broadsheets and was praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as “an epic tale of tech triumph and lost idealism.”Calm, collaborative, and highly hands-on, Fred is known for building strong creative teams and close relationships with commissioners and executives. Across his career, he has overseen projects from development through multiple returning seasons and was a key creative force behind Nutopia’s long-running Decades brand for National Geographic — a premium pop-culture and history franchise still commissioning new episodes more than a decade after launch.  Read Less