Selected for BAFTA Elevate, 2025 and 2026.
https://www.bafta.org/stories/meet-the-bafta-elevate-2025-2026-cohort
Recent graduate of the Virtual Production Bootcamp with Unreal Engine, covering 2D, 2.5D and 3D studio filming techniques and processes.
I've extensive experience and solid skills in many kinds of documentary, specialist factual and popular factual genres, specialising in first series, particularly presenter-led history, drama recon, hybrid and the arts. I'm an expert recruiter of the best teams, and also very sound editorially. I tutor story structure and write drama, comedy and fiction.
I'm co-founder and co-director of BUNS - Bristol Unscripted Network - which supports freelancers in the South West and celebrates our industry. I'm also alumni of the ScreenSkills Series Producer Programme 2020, Directors UK Back on Track Scheme 2020, and Women in Film and Television Mentoring Scheme 2014.
A favourite project was SPing and launching a brand new six-part presenter-led history, crime and drama recon documentary series called Unearthed: Ancient Murder Mysteries (Curiosity, ZDF) - known as Ancient Murders Unearthed in its UK home (Sky History / Amazon Prime). We filmed across the world with Oscar winners Off The Fence. I additionally-directed documentary aspects and drama recon, and edit produced alongside my fantastic teams. We delivered on budget with very high production values and some fascinating stories.
Next, I series produced fast-turnaround studio-based talk show Kate Garraway's Life Stories. We created VTs with celebrities' friends and family, prompting studio-based discussion with an audience of 150. This series gave me valuable studio and gallery experience alongside my already well-honed editorial skills.
More recently I scripted, produced and directed two episodes of brand new series The Victorian Murder Files (Discovery, Quest Red). I relished fusing my drama-writing and directing skills alongside my documentary skills.
I've produced and directed factual television and documentaries since the mid 1990s, with primetime and daytime credits for the BBC, ITV, Channel 5, streamers and independent film projects. I love working with talent and celebrities as well as the public. I'm passionate about storytelling, having tutored JohnYorkeStory.com's Documentary and Factual Content course and gained traction with fiction writing. I often give masterclasses and mentor others in the industry.
I'm experienced in every stage of projects, from development to delivery and everything in between. Previous credits include producing and directing the Visionary Award-nominated documentary Ashley Banjo: Britain in Black and White (Uplands for ITV) and BBC One's Shop Well For The Planet and Shop Well For Less (RDF West).
Prior to these, I job-shared a PD role on 120 minute archive documentary Elizabeth and Margaret: Love and Loyalty for Channel 5 and Netflix, with Factual Fiction. I drama-produced DSP's three parter Charles I: To Kill A King (BBC Four) and produced two episodes of Wall To Wall's Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC One). I was also Casting Producer and Ep 2 Producer on their living history documentary series Back in Time for School (BBC Two), which was nominated for an RTS West Award.
I have been Producer Director, including edit, of several documentaries for BBC Four in the Timeshift and Inside Antiques (series one) strands, and for ITV Carlton in the Thirty Minutes and Water World strands. I have also produced and directed 25 films for BBC One's The One Show. I was The One Show (BBC One) Development Producer for BBC Studios in Wales, leading the pitch book team for two series. I also spent several years producing and directing many arts, car, house and lifestyle programmes for ITV Carlton.
Outside of television, I co-wrote and co-directed a collaborative feature film - I Saw You - and I'm one of a group of fiction writers whose anthology Twisted 50 reached the top of the horror bestsellers chart on Amazon (we knocked Stephen King from number one). My story was shortlisted for Best Story at the British Screenwriters' Awards and came second. I've also had a sci-fi story published in anthology 'The Singularity'.
Links to some fiction work:
Writer and Director - Gerald's Best Client - short fictional comedy drama monologue: vimeo.com/57407721
Writer - Conversations With Strangers Part One - short fictional comedy:
https://vimeo.com/119567290
Writer - Conversations With Strangers Part Two - short drama:
https://vimeo.com/120151572
Writer and Director - The Key - short drama: https://vimeo.com/100894613
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