Executive Producer / Director working across premium documentary programming for UK and international release / Proven at identifying and producing gripping story and narrative arcs and securing hard access to fascinating contributors and institutions alike / Director of both first and returning series / Extensive knowledge, creation and application of legal and compliance protocols / Vast international experience – with particular expertise in India / Comfortable working overseas in extreme or hostile environments and leading UK and international teams.
Executive Producer
Minnow Films
Series Producer
Raw TV
Development Executive
Minnow Films
Feature Documentary + Premium Doc Series Development
Focused on developing ideas specifically for the streamer market - with particular focus on Netflix - BBC and Channel 4
Series Producer / Director
Minnow Films
Netflix: Crime Stories: India Detectives
4 x 45” Documentary series for international release following serious crime investigations in Bangalore, India.
Director of Episodes 1 & 3
Exec Producers | Morgan Matthews | Fiona Stourton
Series Producer
Minnow Films
Channel 4: SAS Who Dares Wins
Popular returning formatted series that sees ex-special forces soldiers put civilian recruits through a recreation of the SAS selection process.
Exec Producers: Sophie Leonard | Grace Reynolds
Compliance Producer
Blast! Films
BBC1: Reported Missing
3 X 60 documentary series following live missing persons cases across County Durham.
Exec Producer | SP: David Hodgkinson | Emily Lawson
Compliance / Edit Producer
Blast! Films
Channel 4: 999 What’s Your Emergency?
WINNER: Grierson Best Entertaining Documentary
14 x 60 documentary series following the work of the emergency services as they respond to 999 calls. Compliance producer across all episodes. Edit producer of EP10 + EP12. Conducted interviews across multiple episodes.
Exec Producer | SP: David Hodgkinson | Jo Abel
Producer / Director
Minnow Films
Channel 4: SAS Who Dares Wins
5 x 60 series that sees ex-special forces soldiers put civilian recruits through a recreation of the SAS selection process in the mountains of Morocco. Gallery producer and EP2 edit producer.
Exec Producers: Morgan Matthews | Sophie Leonard
Edit Producer / Series AP
Renegade Pictures
Channel 4: The Tribe
NOMINATEE: BAFTA Factual Series
4 x 60 Fixed-rig documentary series telling the story of family life in an Ethiopian Hamar tribe.
Series Director | Producer: Paddy Wivell, Vicky Mitchell
Senior Development Producer
Minnow Films
BBC3: Coal Town Cops
Successfully secured access to Durham Constabulary for the second series of award-winning BBC3 police series Valley Cops.
BBC2 Manchester Blues | Manctopia
Working across a number of large institutional access-based projects and documentary developments, delivering tasters, writing proposals, securing access, attending commissioner meetings and originating new ideas.
Exec Producers: Morgan Matthews | Sophie Leonard | David Moulton