I am an award-winning producer/director, specialising in science, specialist factual and nature, with robust and broad experience gained over a 25+ years’ career. I have also filmed and directed a single 1 hour character led documentary with a vulnerable contributor about a sensitive medical issue; and have directed an episode of a popular journ... Read More

I am an award-winning producer/director, specialising in science, specialist factual and nature, with robust and broad experience gained over a 25+ years’ career. I have also filmed and directed a single 1 hour character led documentary with a vulnerable contributor about a sensitive medical issue; and have directed an episode of a popular journalistic current affairs series. I have a proven track record dealing with primetime presenters and contributors from all walks of life, including scientists, and devising and directing complex shoots, in single and multi-cam environments and I am a strong self-shooter (I own a lot of equipment). I have lots of experience dealing with other people’s material in the edit and pulling it together into compelling narrative, with experience managing teams at various levels. I have a huge, evidenced passion for the natural world, which is reflected in my work. Awards include: a Scottish RTS Award in Science and Natural History, as well as multiple nominations (a Celtic Media Award for single documentary and a Scottish Bafta for Specialist Factual).Key Skills: • Lead producer/director and scriptwriter of large-scale multicam science and specialist factual documentaries with multiple contributors for primetime television • Lots of experience in science, environmental and nature film making [have co-directed a BBC4 doc about bats; a climate change series for BBC Science and Global news; a BBC Horizon about gene science; and set up and run the film unit at the World Wildlife Fund]. • Strong Self-Shooter with evidenced experience having shot a number of 1 hour progs and films - obs doc, scripted; and specialist nighttime filming experience (for bats) - own a great deal of my own camera kit and lenses • Directed many presenters and work well with scientists, academics and professionals including: Alice Roberts, Lucy Cooke, Kate Humble, Chris Van Tulluken • Edit Producer of a variety of specialist factual and nature programmes • Strong storyteller and scriptwriter – an ability to understand what makes good narrative, with questions, corner turns & sign posting (Selected for the Docucampus Masterschool, Europe where I developed a feature length documentary with guidance from commissioners and mentors (eg. RobertThirkell; Storyville; YLE Finland) • Experienced at identifying ‘made for tv’ science experiments and creating creative visual stunts and demonstrations • Able to offline edit programmes for broadcast to a good standard (own my own Avid media composer) • Foreign filming experience in sometimes challenging environments (Mexico rubbish dumps, North Sea fishing boats, India cotton fields, Finland aurora in minus 20 C; Spain, Denmark, Bulgaria, Chicago) • Experience managing teams, schedules and budgets - on location in complex multicam environments and in the office • Evidenced passion for the natural world with ongoing training in ecopsychology; and recent judge of Jackson Wild Film Festival Read Less