I’m a highly experienced senior Producer/Director who has worked in broadcast television for 20 years. I’ve produced and directed some of the biggest names in the business and I’ve made content for both UK and US broadcasters. I'm accustomed to leading and directing documentary crews, often in international and remo... Read More

I’m a highly experienced senior Producer/Director who has worked in broadcast television for 20 years. I’ve produced and directed some of the biggest names in the business and I’ve made content for both UK and US broadcasters. I'm accustomed to leading and directing documentary crews, often in international and remote locations. I’ve worked across a variety of content including natural history, specialist factual and factual entertainment. I’ve followed actuality and produced story with contributors from hill farmers and pilots to trauma doctors and high profile celebrity talent. I’m accustomed to filming on my own with talent and contributors and I shoot on a range of cameras including Sony FS7, FX9, FX6 and many more. My passions are natural history, geography, science and travel and I have a wealth of experience setting up, running, and directing shoots while working in a range of extreme and remote locations including jungles, mountains, deserts, the arctic, at altitude, at sea and underwater. I’m used to the challenges and rigours that these environments demand… but I’m just as content filming in and around the UK and the USA. I have edit produced episodes for the likes of National Geographic, Disney+, Channel 4, ITV, Sky Nature and Animal Planet. I’m a PADI scuba diver, I have Extreme Environment training (2013), Remote Trauma HEFAT training (2014), BOSIET training (2019), I’m a marathon runner, an ironman, a road cyclist and a photographer. www.markchallender.com Read Less