Alice McShane is an award-winning Producer/Director whose investigative documentaries have broken major stories for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. Her films pair journalism-led rigour with a strong cinematic sensibility, holding power to account through character-driven storytelling. She has extensive experience navigating complex legal and compliance... Read More

Alice McShane is an award-winning Producer/Director whose investigative documentaries have broken major stories for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. Her films pair journalism-led rigour with a strong cinematic sensibility, holding power to account through character-driven storytelling. She has extensive experience navigating complex legal and compliance issues, and places duty of care to contributors at the centre of her work.

Her most recent film, Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret (BBC, 2026), investigated allegations of criminal sexual misconduct against the Oscar-winning actor. It received five stars from The Guardian, which called it “a documentary that deserves to be seen, rather than simply read about,” and four stars from The Telegraph. The story was picked up internationally, including by The New York Times, Variety and The LA Times.

Her previous film, Children of the Cult (ITV, 2024), investigated decades of child abuse within the Rajneesh movement. It was distributed theatrically by Dartmouth Films. Peter Bradshaw, writing in The Guardian, gave it five stars, calling it “an impassioned, courageous, focused and confrontational documentary,” and later named it one of his Best Documentaries of the Year. It was nominated for a BAFTA, a Grierson and an RTS Award.

Russell Brand: In Plain Sight (Channel 4, 2023) received five-star reviews in The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Independent. The Guardian called it a “cogent documentary,” writing that the scale of the alleged abuse made it extraordinary the story had stayed hidden for so long. The Telegraph called it “a stark reminder of the power of TV.” It won two RTS Awards and a Broadcast Award, and was nominated for a BAFTA. Following the film’s broadcast, Brand was charged in the UK with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault and is awaiting trial.  Read Less