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Luke McMahon

Producer / Director / Series Director

Brighton and Hove

London

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About Me

An award-winning critically acclaimed Producer / Director / Series Director I specialise in premium factual arts, history, music, and popular culture documentaries. With a wealth of experience across a diverse range of productions for multiple networks and platforms such as the BBC, Channel 4, SKY, Apple TV, Warner and Amazon, recent films for BBC Studios have won and been nominated for RTS Documentary & Specialist Factual Arts awards and shortlisted for The Grierson Awards. Commercial feature doc projects include working closely alongside multiple Oscar / Emmy decorated director James Marsh (Man on Wire / The Theory of Everything) as a Producer for PULSE FILMS, while also masterminding and Directing cross-genre hits like ‘Joe Lycett: Summer Exhibitionist’ – creating an irreverent, primetime BBC Studios ratings and iPlayer smash with the provocative BAFTA-winning comedian. As Series Director, in 2025 I delivered the BBC’s latest landmark three-part cultural history series Simon Schama’s Story of Us, with the renowned Emmy Award-winning historian and presenter. I've also had the privelege of PD'ing eight standout documentaries for Alan Yentob's iconic Imagine series.

To get a better visual sense of my work and see some of the generous media coverage it has generated please click on the VIMEO showcase link below:

https://vimeo.com/showcase/6650762
Password: 2025

I simply love telling stories and creating impactful, innovative content from concept to delivery that resonates with audiences. From powerful original shorts, singles & feature length docs, to birthing brand new internationally successful series, shot all over the world, I'm adept at getting the very best out of diverse creative teams and inspiring exceptional talent both on and off screen.

Some recent highlights include persuading the reclusive and highly influential gay, black British songwriter Labi Siffre to make his first ever feature length documentary in Labi Siffre: This is My Song; winning a Royal Television Society Award for my feature length doc on the trailblazing playwright / screenwriter James Graham: In The Room Where it Happens (Dear England; Sherwood; INK; This House) & creating an acclaimed in-depth highly personal portrait of Booker-prize winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up (author of Girl, Woman, Other & Mr Loverman).

'THANKS for the amazing Imagine doc - my life, your artistry. So special. The doc feels like the televisual equivalent of the most vibrant, rich, captivating, multi-layered collage - so creatively produced, wonderfully edited, and there is so much going on....everyone was also beautifully shot by you, including myself, for which I am VERY grateful. So yes, I am awed by it - celebratory, positive, colourful, complex...' Bernardine Evaristo, CBE, personal response to our documentary collaboration. Read Less

Professional Training

Course / Qualification	Training Provider / Institution	Year
Working with Actors / Directors UK / 2025
Working with Actors	Directors UK	2025
Camera Course / BBC Television Production Training / 2010
Camera Course	BBC Television Production Training	2010
Sound Recording for Documentaries / BBC Television Production Training / 2008
Sound Recording for Documentaries	BBC Television Production Training	2008
Post-grad Diploma in Newspaper Journalism / University of Brighton / 2005
Post-grad Diploma in Newspaper Journalism	University of Brighton	2005

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Media I Work In:
Broadcast Television
Commercials
Feature Film
Short Film
Video on demand
Locations I can work in:
Work Anywhere
Language:
English (Fluent)
French (Conversational)
Italian (Conversational)
Skills/Permits:
Access Negotiation
Archive Clearance
Casting
Commentary Writing
Driving Licence
Edit Producing
EU Passport Holder
Heath And Safety Training
Hostile Environment
I Visa USA
Music Clearance
Script Writing
Storytelling
Technical Skills:
Avid
Final Cut Pro X
Multicamera Directing
Self Shooting
Single Camera Directing
Sound Recording
Awards:
ROYAL TELEVISON SOCIETY (RTS) AWARD WINNER - Documentary & Specialist Factual: Arts - BBC1 - Imagine - James Graham - In The Room Where it Happens

GRIERSON AWARDS - Ballet's Dark Knight: Kenneth MacmIllan - SHORTLIST - BBC Studios / Arts

IFTA - (IRISH FILM & TV AWARDS) NOMINEE - The Story of Ireland BBC Worldwide / RTE

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Luke McMahon

Producer / Director / Series Director

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