TV DOCUMENTARIES & DRAMA
Burlesque Undressed (Doc feature film in HD)
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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The Tsarina’s Slippers
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
Lend me a Tenor
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.
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Sigur Ros (A Culture Show Special)
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.
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The Story of Jackanory
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.
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Illuminations: Treasures of the Middle Ages
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.
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We are not Afraid
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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Charging for Alexander
BBC FOUR, 30 mins
May 2004
This was my own idea which I took to the Channel, had commissioned and was filming in Oxford & Morocco within two weeks.
I followed ancient history don, Robin Lane Fox, in his lifelong quest to ride in Alexander the Great’s cavalry charge. Also stars film director Oliver Stone and actor Colin Farrell on the set of ‘Alexander’.
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