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Jaine Hilston

Producer/Edit Producer/Archive Producer

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About Me

Dynamic and resourceful Producer and Edit Producer with extensive experience across Specialist Factual programming. Skilled in crafting compelling narratives for a wide range of genres including history, the Royal Family, true crime, and current affairs. With credits on leading programmes such as Dispatches and Panorama, I bring editorial rigor, cr... Read More

Professional Training

Course / QualificationTraining Provider / InstitutionYear
Introduction to Podcasting / CityLit / 2025
Introduction to PodcastingCityLit2025
Documentary Shooting / NFTS / 2014
Documentary ShootingNFTS2014
Shooting for Edit / DV Talent / 2013
Shooting for Edit DV Talent 2013
Shooting & Directing Canon XF305 / DV Talent / 2012
Shooting & Directing Canon XF305 DV Talent2012
Final Cut Pro Editing / DV Talent / 2011
Final Cut Pro Editing DV Talent2011

Jaine worked for me as a Producer/Director and Edit Producer across two 90 minute archive docs. She found fantastic contributors - persuading, charming and negotiating to get interviews secured within our timeframe. Jaine also tracked down a chef who had moved to the US, sourced amazing unseen archive from him, and helped to set up an affordable way to record an interview with him.

Jaine got some fantastic sync from our interviewees, helped to create the beat sheets and then edit produced across both docs. I found her collaborative, organised and calm under pressure. I would be very happy to work with her again.

Naomi Callan (nee Dennison)

Jaine is an excellent, hard working, super experienced producer with a wide ranging skillset. We recently completed a remote working primetime documentary in lockdown where Jaine became the main archive mastermind. I was amazed by her dedicaton and the results we managed to achieve as a team under the toughest of circumstances. Looking forward to working with Jaine again in the near future.

Charlie Clay

Jaine is among the very best producers I have worked with in three decades in TV. She has a good sense of the big picture while never losing sight of the essential detail. She is brilliant with contributors - both finding them and getting them to the screen. She is determined, uncomplaining and resourceful and never gives up. She does all this while remaining cheerful, amusing and lots of fun. I work with her any chance I get.

Jonathan Jones

Jaine worked with me on the most butt-clenchingly tight turnaround drama-doc series about the Wars of the Roses. From a standing start we had to write 4 hour-long, meticulously researched, costed and planned films about the trickiest part of British history. We could not have done this without Jaine's application, dedication and skill. She brought her talents with good grace, intelligence and wit. I'd recommend her to anyone...

Nick Green - director

Jaine worked for me as an AP on a history drama doc. Her specialised knowledge of history was invaluable and she was hard working, organised and always positive.

Dan Gold Executive Producer

Jaine worked with me as AP on a episode of the family history series 'Who Do You Think You Are?'. I found her to be very organised, enthusiastic and conscientious. She put together a complex filming schedule and was invaluable on the shoot itself. She also worked very well with Brian Blessed, the celebrity whose family history we were tracing. Jaine also loves history which really helped!

Mary Cranitch -Producer/Director Who Do You Think You Are?

Jaine did a wonderful job on our film Fire in the Night - a feature documentary about the Piper Alpha disaster. The film required an incisive historical eye and a forensic approach to it's research. Part of her job was to go through the long and complex public enquiry and work out the routes our characters took to make their escape from the burning oil rig.

She also had to match this with our characters personal testimony and try to paint an accurate picture of what happened . This was a long and complicated process but was done brilliantly.

Jaine also helped organise a long and busy shoot and worked sensitively and sympathetically with our contributors during a difficult time - as they recalled the past..

All in all Jaine is a very good AP - bright, organised, extremely diligent, and great company...

Anthony Wonke, Producer/Director

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  • Media I Work In:

    Broadcast Television

  • Locations I can work in:

    London

    Midlands

    North East

  • Language:

    British Sign Language (Conversational)

  • Skills/Permits:

    Archive Clearance

    Driving Licence

    Casting

    Heath And Safety Training

    Music Clearance

    Storytelling

    Access Negotiation

    British Sign Language (BSL)

    Edit Producing

    Script Writing

  • Technical Skills:

    Canon 5D

    Data Wrangling

    DSLR

    Final Cut Pro

    Sony DSR-PD150

    Self Shooting

    Sony DSR-450

    Sony HVR-Z1

    Studio Experience

    Canon XF305

    Single Camera Directing

  • Awards:

    FIRE IN THE NIGHT: WINNER Edinburgh Film Festival Audience Award WINNER BAFTA Scotland Best Single Documentary NOMINEE BAFTA Scotland Audience Award NOMINEE BAFTA Scotland Best Feature Film EXTREME RAILWAYS: NOMINEE National Television Award Nominee