Freelance Shooting PD and Development Exec/Consultant with over 15 years experience creating factual television and digital content. Please note that I have two CVs - one for Development roles and one for PD roles - I have always done both. Excellent writer, skilled at story - both scripts and decks - able to handle and shape complex narratives.
Available from 18 November 2024 for both development and production.
Producing / Directing / Edit Producing:
- Strong shooter on FS7 who has self-shot talking heads and interviews with big name talent on limited budgets.
- Experienced directing crews on location including actuality on fast turnaround projects
- Experienced edit producer used to handling large volumes of material very quickly.
- Specialist in shaping narrative around archive.
- Have shot actuality in schools for The One Show and in factories for Watchdog both BBC 1.
- Commissions on C5, More 4 and Sky Arts, so understand the tone across channels.
Recent PD credits:
- This Cultural Life with Peter Kosminsky, 1 x 30, BBC iplayer / BBC World for BBC Studios
Directing multi-camera set up and edit producing archive heavy profile in 10 days on this and the other This Cultural Life shows below.
- This Cultural Life with Boy George, 1 x 30, 2024, BBC iplayer / BBC World for BBC Studios
- This Cultural Life with Juliette Binoche, 1 x 30, 2024, BBC iplayer / BBC World for BBC Studios
- This Cultural Life with Whoopi Goldberg, 1x30, 2023, BBC iplayer / BBC World for BBC Studios
- Africa Turns the Page with David Olusoga, 1x60, 2021, BBC4 /iplayer for Uplands TV
(Have also directed around 30 VTs on The Culture Show, Watchdog, BBC Ideas and Film Programme, many self shot)
Development
- Adept at a range of development – from pure docs to specialist factual; pop factual streamer series and features; funny and provocative docs; true crime box sets; formats; consumer.
- Several years of production experience that informs my development.
- Ideas generator who is also strong on secondary dev.
- Experience running teams but work well on my own.
- I offer short term consultancy dev, finessing formats or restructuring / refreshing decks to nail story and format.
Recent Commissions:
- Miss World 1970: Pretty Girls, Angry Women, 1x 60, 2020, BBC Two for BBC Studios
- Our NHS A Hidden History with David Olusoga, BBC One, 2020, for Uplands TV
- Museum of Us with Tony Robinson, 4 x 60, More 4, 2022, for Uplands TV
- Royals in their Own Words – Diana and The Queen, 2 x 60, 2019, Channel Five for Viacom
- BFI Feature The People’s Piazza: Covent Garden with David Olusoga, 1 x 90, BBC Two / BFI, 2022, for Uplands TV
- Art Matters with Melvyn Bragg, 1 x 60, 2024, Oxford Films for Sky Arts
Other selected commissions:
- One Show History VTs for David Olusoga, BBC 1
- Watchdog, BBC 1
- The Secret Life of Sue Townsend, 1 x 60, BBC 2
- Britain's Most Disgusting Foods, 3 x 60, BBC 3
- The Art of Japanese Life with James Fox, 3 x 60, BBC 4
- Handmade in Japan, 3 x 30, BBC 4
- A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol, 1 x 60, BBC 4
Read Less
