THE SOUNDS OF 007
SHAKEN NOT STIRRED / EON
Director: MAT WHITECROSS
The stories behind the iconic soundtracks of the Bond franchise.
NASCA LINES
BLINK FILMS / NOVA
Director: DANIELA VOLKER
Following an international team of archeologists.Filmed on location in Peru.
THE RESCUE (additional cinematography)
SAR / VENTURELAND / NAT GEO
Director: JIMMY CHIN
Oscar winning director Jimmy Chin's feature documentary on the daring cave rescue of the Wild Boars football team.
Nomination - BAFTA 2022 - Best Documentary.
Winner - Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Peoples Choice Award
Winner - Critics Choice Documentary Awards 2021
VENDETTA : TRUTH, LIES AND THE MAFIA
NUTOPIA / NETFLIX
Director: DANIELA VOLKER
8 part series filmed on location in Palermo, Sicily. Following two high profile cases involving alleged Mafia activities and corruption.
MURDER IN THE WICKED WEST
BRITESPARK / ID DISCOVERY
Director: RUSSELL EATOUGH
Set in an epic landscape where traditions of blood and vengence run as deep as the canyons and murders are solved the old school way.
BEAR GRYLLS: YOU vs WILD "OUT COLD" [additional camera]
ELECTUS / NETFLIX
Director: BEN SIMMS
Filmed on location in the Dolomites, Italy. Bear survives a parachute jump into the mountains and makes his way back to safety.
THE MEN OF WASHEM STATION
OR MEDIA / AL ARABIA TV
Director: TOM ROBERTS
Following a group of firefighters, in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh,over their busiest month of the year. With unprecedented access and previously uncaptured footage of being alongside the men as they fight fires.
EARTH'S NATURAL WONDERS - ELEPHANTS OF ASSAM
BBC
Director: VIRGINNIA QUINN
Following the work of the mahoots on the tea plantations of Assam and the unfortunate pressure on wild elephant herds' environment caused by man.
BBC ONE / SPORT RELIEF
Directors: STEVE GROGAN / PAMELA GORDON
Zoe Ball cycles from Blackpool to Brighton raising awareness of men's mental health issues.
Nomination - MIND Media Awards 2018 Best Documentary.
DAVINA - BEYOND BREAKING POINT
BBC / SPORT RELIEF
Director: PAMELA GORDON / JAEMIE GALLIE
Davina MacAll cycles, swims and runs on an epic endurance race from Ediburgh to London.
HELEN'S POLAR CHALLENGE
BBC ONE / SPORT RELIEF
Director: MORAY LONDON
Helen Skelton skis, kites and cycles across Antarctica to the South Pole for Sport Relief.
Winner - RTS North West Awards 2012 Best Factual Entertainment Programme
BRITAIN’S LOST WORLD: ST KILDA
IWC / BBC
Director: CRAIG HUNTER / ISHBEL HALL
(Incl. Climbing & Sea Kayaking sequences) Presenters Kate Humble, Steve Backshall & Dan Snow explore the natural and social history of this remote island.
Nomination - BAFTA Scotland Awards 2008 Best Factual Programme
TRIPLE ECHO / BBC SCOTLAND
Director: IAN RUSSELL
(Simultaneous Live HD TV/Web Transmission)
Tim Emmett & Dave MacLeod attempt Sron Ulladale in Outer Hebrides. Largest overhanging cliff in UK.
Winner - BAFTA Scotland Awards 2011
Winner - GTC Award for Excellence 2012
DARLOW-SMITHSON / BBC
Director: AMELIA HANN / PAUL COPELAND
Presenter Julia Bradbury and extreme sportsman Tim Emmett attempt three classic British rock -climbing routes.
GOING TO EXTREMES – NEPAL
KEO FILMS / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Director: WILL ANDERSON
[Including filming technical climbing sequences at >300 ft of wild-honey collectors on the cliffs of Nepal’s Gurung region and filming ice-climbing sequences at >17 000ft on the glaciers of the Langtang Himal area]
71 DEGREES NORTH
FEVER MEDIA / ITV
Director: DAVID TIBBALLS
(Incl. Filming in temperatures of -30 C)
Shot on location almost entirely inside Arctic Circle as two teams compete in a gruelling race to reach Norway's Nordkapp.
TWO FOUR / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: PAMELA GORDON
An intimate portrait of residents and staff at a care home which is leading the way with its approach to dementia.
Nomination - Broadcast Awards 2016 Best Documentary Series
Nomination - Greirson Awards 2016 Best Documentary Series
Winner - Learning Screen Awards 2016
Winner- BAFTA 2016 Best Factual Series
Winner- Greirson Awards 2016 Best Documentary Series
Nomination - Real Screen Awards 2016
WALL TO WALL / BBC 2
Directors: ANDY HALL, HELGA BERRY, ED WATKINS
DoP on multi-camera shoot
Presented by Dr Chris and Dr Xand Van Tulleken.
THE DR WHO GAVE UP DRUGS
RAW TV / BBC
Director: TOM BEARD
Presented by Dr Chris Van Tulleken.
CATIE'S AMAZING MACHINES
CBBC
Director: NIC HALL
BEYOND BIONIC
CBBC
Directors: NIC HALL, SIMON HALL
Filmed on location in Iceland, Norway,USA and the UK. Adventurer Andy Torbet attempts to match the super-skills of some of natures super-heroes.
DENGINEERS
CBBC
Director: CHARLOTTE INGHAM
Snow Den, Raliway Den, Cinema Den and Writer's Den
Nomination - BAFTA Children's Award 2016. Best Entertainment Show
THE TRUTH ABOUT HIV
BBC ONE / SUNDOG
Director: DAN CHILD
Dr Chris Van Tulleken explores the advances in treatment of the virus.
BRITAIN'S FAT FIGHT WITH HUGH FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL
KEO FILMS / BBC ONE
Director: HELEN SIMPSON
Nomination - GRIERSON AWARD 2013
Winner - NUREMBURG FILM FESTIVAL 2013.
JAMIES’ AMERICAN ROAD TRIP – WYOMING
FRESH ONE / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: PAMELA GORDON
(Shared Camera Credit)
Jamie Oliver joins real cowboys at the rodeo, on the range, branding cattle and cooks in the wilds of Montana and Wyoming.
WINE – THE FAITH
OXFORD TELIVISION / BBC
Director: NICK ANGEL
Charting the creation of the 2008 vintage
at Chateau Margaux.
Filmed entirely on location in France.
HUGH'S FISH FIGHT - THE FIGHT CONTINUES
KEO / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: WILL ANDERSON
(Shared camera credit)
High Fearly-Whittingstall leaves the comfort of River Cottage to attempt change the way we fish both here and abroad.
Nomination - The Maritime Media Awards 2012
KEO FILMS / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: ANDREW PALMER
(Additional Camera)
Presented by Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstal
ROBSON GREEN - EXTREME FISHERMAN SERIES 2
IWC MEDIA / QUEST
Director: DAVID McCONNELL
Robson Green visits the islands of Hawaii in search of gamefish.
EXTREME FISHING
WITH ROBSON GREEN : SERIES 2
IWC MEDIA / CHANNEL FIVE
Directors: JAMIE GOOLD / JOHN LONSDALE
/ JASON HOLMES
Robson Green catches Rainbow Trout at the foot of Niagara Falls, 140lb Tuna off Boston, Pacific King Salmon in Alaska, Sturgeon on the Fraser River, Heli-Fishes for Steelhead in British Columbia and works aboard a Sable trawler in treacherous storms and gale force winds off Victoria Island’s Pacific Coast.
BBC
Directors: HENRY SINGER / STEVE MCQUILAN
(Shared Camera Credit)
Winner - RTS West Awards 2011 Best Documentary Factual
WINDFALL / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: JAMIE LOCHEAD
Taking us inside the bodies of an elephant, giraffe,
crocodile and whale.(shared camera credit)
Winner - BAFTA 2010 Best Specialist Factual Programme
Winner - Broadcast Awards 2010 Best Popular Factual Programme
Winner - RTS Awards 2009 Best Science & Natural History Programme
Nomination - Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2010 Best Factual Entertainment Programme
BLINK / CHANNEL FOUR / DISCOVERY
Director: JULIAN JONES
(Shared Camera Credit)
SEX, DEATH & THE MEANING OF LIFE
CLEAR STORY / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: RUSSELL BARNES
(Shared camera credit)
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins faces up to the big questions of life.
THE MOANING OF LIFE - HEALTH
ME AND YOU PRODUCTIONS / SKY ONE
Director: WILL YAPP
Worldly wisdom from Karl Pilkington as he investigates alternative therapies in Iceland.India and Japan.
THE PROTESTANT REVOLUTION
IWC / BBC / HISTORY CHANNEL
Director: JOSEPH MAXWELL / ASHLEY GETHING
Historian Tristram Hunt uncovers how Protestantism has shaped the seemingly secular worlds of modern art,
literature, science and commerce.
Filmed on location in Germany, USA, Barbados and the UK.
– GEORGIAN PERIOD
BBC
Director: NIGEL WALK (Additional Camera)
David Dimbleby presents a series of films on how the British landscape has been shaped & changed over the centuries.
HUMAN FOOTPRINT
TOUCH / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: NICK WATTS
Using science and art to explore the huge impact each and every human has on the planet in an average lifetime.
Nomination - RTS Awards 2007 Best Science Programme
Winner – Banff Film & TV Festival 2008 Best Environmental Film
Nominated by Channel 4 for RTS Craft Awards 2007 Best Photography : Factual
Short listed – Prix Italia 2007
DIVERSE BRISTOL / BBC
Director: JOSEPH MAXWELL
A housewife from Lancashire spends four weeks living amongst the Himba people of Northern Namibia.
BBC
Directors: NEIL GRANT / ROBI DUTTA
2 months embedded with British Forces during the fighting in the Gulf in 2003. Capturing unique historic footage: the first ever film of a nuclear submarine on active duty.
HMS Splendid, somewhere in the Arabian Gulf, unleashes Tomahawk cruise missiles into the heart of Baghdad.
Nomination – RTS Craft Awards 2003 Best Photography – Factual
KILIMANJARO – SOAP MOUNTAIN
RDF / CHANNEL 5
Director: KATYA NELHAMS-WRIGHT
(Incl. Filming sequences at >19 000ft)
Following the efforts of a team as they climb Africa’s’ highest mountain.
Filmed entirely on location in Tanzania & Kenya.
SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL – KENYAN SAVANNAH
DARLOW-SMITHSON / DISCOVERY
Director: ROBERT EAGLE
(Incl. Aerial Filming)
How to survive in the hostile African savannah.
Filmed entirely on location in Lewa National Park, Kenya.
AUSTIN STEVENS ADVENTURES – GRIZZLIES
TIGRESS / DISCOVERY/ CHANNEL FIVE
Director: JOSEPH MAXWELL
(Incl. Aerial Filming)
Presenter Austin Stevens gets up close and personal
with Grizzly Bears in the temperate rainforest of Canada’s British Columbia.
RDF/ CHANNEL FOUR)
Directors: ROB COLDSTREAM / JOSEPH MAXWELL
(Incl. Aerial Filming)
Series on WW2 Bomber crews and their training.
SPITFIRE ACE
RDF / CHANNEL FOUR / DISCOVERY
Director: NICK WATTS
(Incl. Aerial Filming)
Critically acclaimed series on the famous WWII fighter.
DIVERSE / CHANNEL FOUR
Directors: JOSEPH MAXWELL / JANE CAMERON
Presented by Francis Prior.The history of the Home Defence Units and the little known secret army of Auxilliers set up to fight the ‘expected’ German invasion.
ADOPTING ABROAD: SAIRA'S STORY
BBC
Director: PAMELA GORDON
[Shared Camera Credit]
BRIAN COX’S JUTE JOURNEY
HOPSCOTCH / BBC
Director: BRIAN ROSS
Filmed on location in Dundee and Calcutta, Hollywood
actor Brian Cox examines the Jute industry that
links these two cities.
MARADONNA – KICKING THE HABIT
DOUBLE BAND FILMS / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: MIKE HEWETT
An examination of Diego Maradonna’s fall from grace.
Filmed on location in Argentina.
GRACE'S AMAZING MACHINES
CBBC
Directors: NIC HALL
LWT / ITV
Director: DAVID WISE (Incl. Aerial filming)
The Royal Marines claim to have the hardest military training in the world. With only half of today’s’ recruits now making it through the thirty-two week course, do the instructors now need to rethink their approach?
RDF / ITV
Director: DAVID WISE / ZAC BEATTIE
A short man who wants to change the world, a short
woman who wants to change her legs and a short boy who just won’t grow…
CENTURY FILMS / ITV
Director: NICHOLAS O’DWYER
“An intriguing snapshot of life in a Yorkshire town…conveyed through some exceptional camerawork” TIME OUT
TOUCH
Director: NICK WATTS
(Additional Camera)
TWENTY TWENTY / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: MIKE BRENAN
Presented by Jane Moore. A look at the influence the major supermarkets have on what our farmers grow and ultimately the effect on the nation’s diet.
FLAME TV / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: RIETA OORD
With estate agents making an unprecedented fortune what about the clients who are caught up in the nightmare?
NORTH ONE TV / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: ZAC BEATTIE
Following a unit of specialist cleaners who clear up after dead bodies have been found.
CENTURY FILMS / BBC
Director: KATIE BAILIFF
Plastic surgeons and Neurosurgeons carry out facial/cranial reconstruction in Indonesia and the USA.
Finalist - New York Film & TV Awards 2001 Best Humanitarian Documentary
BBC
Director: RICHARD GRANGE
How the collapse of confidence in the world financial
markets has affected us all.
PANORAMA - HEATING BILLS
BBC ONE
Director: STEPHEN MQUILLAN
DISPATCHES - UNREPORTED CRIME
ITN FACTUAL / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: CLAIRE BURNETT
BBC TWO
Director: CHARLIE RUSSELL
Best selling author Terry Pratchett diagnosed with alzeimers has one last adventure he wants to go on as he returns to the jungles of Borneo.
FAKING IT : USA – COWBOY
RDF / ABC
Director: ROZ PONDER
Filmed on location in New Mexico, USA.
FAKING IT : USA – SOMMELIER
RDF / ABC
Director: EMILY FIELD
Filmed on location in San Francisco & Chicago, USA.
Winner – Montreux Television Festival 2003 Rose D’Or
Winner – Indie Television Awards 2003
RDF / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: JONATHAN SMITH
RDF / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: PADDY WIVELL
FILMS OF RECORD / ITV
Director: ED HARRIMAN
Filmed entirely in Baghdad just weeks after US forces took the Iraqi
capital. The story of CIA trained Arab spies and their
role in the Iraq conflict.
ORTV / BBC
Director: CHARLIE SMITH
DRAGONFLY / CHANNEL FIVE
Director: JESS ORR
Wind farm construction in Montana, USA.
BBC
Director: ALEX MORENGO
(Ice-climbing & Skiing sequences)
Ice-climbing and skiing with the ski-patrol in Chamonix, France as they pre-empt avalanches with controlled explosions.
IWC GLASGOW / BBC
Director: PAUL TUCKER
travelogue show Presented by Kirsty Wark and Simon Davis.
BBC
Director: MIKE MONTGOMERY
[Incl. filming technical climbing sequences at >400ft also shooting in temperatures >40 Centigrade in the Oman desert]
ENDOMOL SCOTLAND / BBC
Director: KATHRYN ROSS
ENDOMOL SCOTLAND / BBC
Director: KATHRYN ROSS
BBC
Director: ROBI DUTTA
Mercy Ship surgeons perform ‘medical miracles’
in Freetown. As Sierra Leone attempts to recover from the ravages of civil war.
BBC WORLD
Director: GUY EVANS
MENTORN / CHANNEL FIVE
Director: JANE CAMERON
Presented by former president of Pakistan Benazir Bhuto.
MENTORN / CHANNEL FIVE
Director: JANE CAMERON
Presented by former Archbishop of Canterbury’s Special Envoy Terry Waite.
SHINE LTD / SKY ONE
Director: CHARLIE SMITH
Profiles of Sadam Hussein, Kim Yong-il, Idi Amin, Mao, Pol Pot and Hitler
GARDEN PRODUCTIONS / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: JAMIE O'LEARY
BBC
Director: PAUL TUCKER
Exclusive access to the singer/songwriter on the road to recovery after a stroke. Following him through therapy and back to the recording studio as he completes the solo album ‘Home Again’
PROSPECT PICTURES / BBC
Director: ROWAN DEACON
The world of body part doubles: men and women whose features stand in for the stars.
BBC
Director: RICHARD DOWN
Profile of Hollywood legend.
HART DAVIS
Directors: DAVID HART / JO HART
Profile of the funk legend
DOUBLE BAND FILMS / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: DIARMUID LAVERY
Biographical X-ray of the famous footballer.
BLINK / CHANNEL FIVE
Director: WILLIAM HICKLIN
The bird that performs tasks previously thought to be exclusive to humans, great apes and monkeys.
BBC
Director: NICK BETTS
A gentle look at some of the more mature motorists on London’s roads.
EVERYMAN: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
BBC
Director: ARIF NURMOHAMMED
Two Islamic companies Quibla Cola and Mecca Cola
take on the US soft drinks giants.
Filmed on location in France & the UK.
BBC
Director: WILL YAP
BBC
Director: DANIELLA VOLKER
Unmarried women argue that spinsterhood means
freedom and financial independence and certainly not being ‘miserably left on the shelf’.
LION TV / BBC
Director: HILARY ROSEN
Fiona Bruce gets a behind the scenes look at the life of the Prime Minister’s wife.
HART RYAN / CHANNEL FOUR
Director: PADDY WIVELL
‘Twockers’, getaway drivers ‘cut and shunt’ mechanics and other ‘car villains’ tell their stories.
I SWEAR I CAN SING
LEOPARD / BBC
Director: DANNY BECK
(Shared camera credit)
BLAST TV / HISTORY CHANNEL
Director:
Peter Snow looks at one of his favourite
historic sites; Dover Castle.
ENDEMOL
Director: PAUL TUCKER / KATE COTTER
(Additional Camera)
Presented by Griff Rys-Jones.
LION TV / BBC
Director: BELINDA CHERINGTON
Everyday tales of lies, deceit and betrayal.
DIRTY BRITAIN - SERIES 2
WILD PICTURES / ITV
Director: BARNABY PEEL
Following the team of window cleaners who maintain the outside of the iconic London landmark : The Gherkin.
CIRCUS / HISTORY CHANNEL
Director: MIKE BECKHAM
(Additional Camera)
BBC
Director: ANDY WILLMAN / ED BAZELGETTE
(Additional Camera)
Winner - National Television Awards 2006 Most Popular Factual Programme
Winner - National Television Awards 2007 Most Popular Factual Programme
Nomination - BAFTA Awards 2006 Best Feature
ITN FACTUAL
Director: MIKE BECKHAM
(Additional Camera)
BBC
Director: JAQUI FARNHAM
Amateur designers attempt to new versions of well established products.
BBC
Director: SUZIE SAMANT
(Additional Camera)
Actress Kara Tointon confronts how dyslexia is defining her and how her condition effects her life.
LION TV / BBC
Director: BELINDA CHERINGTON
(Additional Camera)
Rosie Boycott discusses moral dilemmas with a range of people who have found themselves faced with making life and death choices.
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