Alison Grist

BBC Two, 150 mins

July 2010 + ROH DVD

Antonio Pappano, music director of The Royal Opera, introduces us to Giuseppe Verdi's operatic masterpiece, 'Simon Boccanegra'.
Legendary tenor Plácido Domingo makes his Covent Garden debut singing baritone in the title role. I directed and edited all links and interval films including exclusive behind-the-scenes footage. The most challenging part for me was in writing the script for Antonio to explain the complicated back-story to the drama. Great fun to make. Click here to read my blog on the experience.

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Nightfall Films/EMI, 89 mins

Cinemas Jan 2010, DVD Feb 2010

I wrote and directed this feature. EMI wanted to showcase Immodesty Blaize and her Tease Show. My job was to shape the whole film. I decided to place the performances at the heart and weaved the documentary elements around them. So the extraordinary interviewees, the history and archive sections, my chats with Immodesty while she was getting ready, these sequences and more all served to give a fresh insight into this art form and help audiences appreciate the performances more. Click here for more details and press reviews...

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BBC Two, 2 hours 30 mins

Christmas Eve 2009

I produced all the packaging for this Christmas special by Tchaikovsky at the Royal Opera House.

I wrote and directed the links presented by Katie Derham and filmed behind-the-scenes, interviewing key talent and Cossack dancers to make an entertaining and informative interval film, plus several DVD extras for the Royal Opera House/ Opus Arte.

02:42

BBC Training, 4 mins

September 2008

Made during my BBC Drama Directing course, I adapted this scene from a stage play, rehearsed and blocked it with professional actors and shot it with a single camera crew and minimal lighting over a couple of hours.

04:06

BBC TWO, 30 mins

November 2007

Verity Sharp meets Iceland’s biggest band and reveals how their music forms and informs.

This is Sigur Ros’s first substantial British TV interview and includes exclusive performance for The Culture Show at their studio outside Reykjavik.

04:12

BBC FOUR, 60 mins

February 2006

This special programme reveals how Jackanory evolved over the years, managing to remain contemporary and relevant to its audience.

Contributors include Bernard Cribbins, Tony Robinson, Alan Bennett, Patricia Routledge, Martin Jarvis and Quentin Blake. Narrated by Hannah Gordon.

01:03

BBC FOUR, 30 mins

October 2005

Art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the incredible story of the magnificent illuminated manuscripts from their earliest beginnings - first as a comic strip bible, progressing to golden prayer books for the rich, through to the illustrated university books of renaissance Europe.

03:23

BBC FOUR, 30 mins

August 2005

Commissioned days after the 7/11 London bombings, this programme was made and transmitted within three weeks. It has neither presenter nor narrator.

The programme explains how the website werenotafraid.com was conceived and how it captured the zeitgeist of that event.

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