Freelance Story Producer
www.tara-gilmore.co.uk tara@gilmorefilms.co.uk // +44 7791080338
Highly-organised, dynamic & creative Producer with strong communication & analytical skills, used to working in a fast-paced environment with 7+ years experience across development/production and scripted/factual. Confident handling access, narrative and setting up/field producing shoots on location.
Current story producing a feature doc. at New Black Films (Maiden, The Last Rider). Work includes leading interviews, managing contributor access and edit/archive producing. Also currently developing a US-based doc. series that includes sensitive access and investigative skills.
Previous credits include story producing a Miami crime-based limited doc. series at Box to Box directed by BIFA-winning director Mat Whitecross (The Kings, Supersonic) and produced by Fiona Nielson and Academy-Award winner James Gay Rees (Amy, Senna, Diego Maradonna), and story producing the Bond music feature doc. 'Sound of 007' for Amazon/MGM at John Battsek's Academy Award-winning company Ventureland (Bobi Wine, The Deepest Breath, The Rescue).
I previously spent 2 years as assistant to the Academy Award-winning producer Joanna Natasegara (Virunga, The White Helmets) at her indie Violet Films. Work included impact assistant producing and organising educational events for the BIFA-winning doc.
Evelyn and the Emmy-winning short doc.
The Nightcrawlers about Filipino President Duterte's war on drugs, as well as setting up a UN Human Rights Council side-event for the latter. I also worked across projects inc. Netflix's scripted adaptation of Virunga, written by Barry Jenkins and produced by Leonardo Di Caprio's
Appian Way, a scripted series with Anne Hathaway's Somewhere Pictures, Netflix's
Heart of Invictus doc-series, and Waad Al-Kateab's Olympic Refugee doc.
We Dare to Dream. Other tasks included aiding comms work for Virunga National Park, complex diary management and dealing with awards season loans & events during Natasegara's Oscar-campaign for Netflix's
The Edge of Democracy.
Skills include:
- Field producing & organising shoots in the UK & abroad (inc. booking kit, crew, locations, managing paperwork & ensuring budget expectations are met, dealing with contribs & talent on-set)
- Securing acess & building relationships with contributors
- Dealing with sensitive subject matter & difficult/secure access
- Leading interviews
- Archive producing
- Building narrative structure
- Story research & managing APs/researchers
- Writing pitches & proposals
- Complex scheduling
- Managing budget expectations and handling invoices & expenses
I'm always up for a new challenge that will take me anywhere in the world. I'm based in London but happy to work remotely and/or anywhere.
My interests outside of documentary film include script writing, running film workshops with Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers, and travel - having spent periods solo travelling in Nepal, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Australia and California.
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