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In Memory of Chris Hartley 1959 - 2009.
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India Hill Railways
Director/Producer: Hugo Smith
Description:
3Di Television for BBC. TX BBC4 & BBC2
1 x 60 observational documentary; sequel to the highly acclaimed Monsoon Railway, this film looks at the organisation that is the Ooty Hill Railway, with stories of the people who keep the trains running and those who survive because of it.
Nominated for Best Cameraman, Guild of Television Cameramen.
Winner of RTS: Best Documentary
 
Inside Wayne Rooney
Director/Producer: Roger Finnegan
Description:
Granada Factual North for Sky One
1 x 60 A lighthearted look at the scientific profile of the footballer presented by Paddy McGuinness.
 
Crooks Reunited - Roger Cook’s Greatest Hits
Director/Producer: Tim Tate
Description:
Granada Factual North for ITV1
1 x 90 – two decades on Cook travels the world to track down the villains he made infamous to find out what happened to them when the cameras stopped rolling.
 
A Very British Gangster
Director/Producer: Donal McIntyre
Description:
(Cinema release & TX Ch5)
1 x 90 “The Real Sopranos” close up with notorious Manchester gangster family, The Noonans, following, literally, Dominic Noonan’s trials, and his tribulations.
 
Panorama Special: Racing’s Dirty Secrets
Director/Producer: Stephen Scott
Description:
BBC 1
1 x 60 Revealing practices which mean that ordinary punters laying a bet sometimes never have a chance of winning
 
Universal Island Records music video
Director/Producer: Jack Cocker
Description:
DOP HD music video with band Attic Lights, title music for new Channel 5 Minder drama series
 
Make Me a Christian
Director/Producer: Narinder Minhas
Description:
Wildcard Productions for Channel 4
3 x 60 formatted reality documentaries following a team of mentors and their volunteers in their quest to learn a Christian way of life.
 
Panorama Special: The Year Britain’s Bubble Burst
Director/Producer: Stephen Scott
Description:
BBC1
1 x 30 The BBC's business editor Robert Peston reflects on a cataclysmic year for our banks and our economy, and his role in the turbulence.
 
Come Dine With Me
Director/Producer:
Description:
ITV for Channel 4
Worked on Series 4 of this popular culinary series where amateur chefs battle it out over the dining table.
 
Taste of My Life with Nigel Slater
Director/Producer: Mark Adderley
Description:
Doghouse Films for BBC2
20 x 30 D.O.P on two series presented by cookery writer Nigel Slater, as he explores the lives of celebrity guests through their personal food memories – including Alan Bennett, Vanessa Redgrave and Richard E Grant.
 
Cruickshank on Kew: The Garden That Changed the World
Director/Producer:
Description:
2nd unit. 1 x 60 BBC2
HIstorian turned presenter Dan Cruickshank unearths some of the surprising stories that shaped the famous gardens on the eve of their 250th anniversary
 
This Is Liverpool
Director/Producer:
Description:
Uniform for the City Of Liverpool filmed in HD
D.O.P on advert promoting Liverpool as an international destination. Shot on HD with Pro 35 and prime film lenses.
 
Michael Jackson’s Last Days: What Really Happened
Director/Producer: Annie Kossoff
Description:
1 x 60 Mentorn Media for Channel 4
Presenter Jacques Perreti investigates the story behind the countdown to the death of a superstar. Filmed on location in Los Angeles.
 
Muslim Driving School
Director/Producer: Anna Hall
Description:
6 x 30 Blast! Films for BBC2
Observational series following the trials and tribulations of a group of Asian women and their instructors as they attempt to learn to drive and pass their tests.
 
Fern Britton Meets… Sheila Hancock
Director/Producer: Mark Warburton
Description:
1 x 60 for BBC 1
Part of the Fern Britton Meets… series. Fern Britton talks to high-profile figures about how their beliefs have shaped their lives. Sheila Hancock tells Fern why becoming a Quaker has filled a spiritual gap in her life.
 
Good Dog Bad Dog
Director/Producer: Annie Kossoff
Description:
1 x 60 Mentorn Media for More 4
Looking at the current debate about the health and welfare of pedigree dogs, to provide would-be buyers and breeders with guidance on best practice. The documentary was specially commissioned to look at the issues and concerns surrounding dog welfare and best practice in dog breeding.
 
Samantha Brown’s Asia
Director/Producer:
Description:
4 x 60 Optomen USA for Discovery, filmed in HD.
American travel expert Samantha Brown goes on an Asian odyssey, discovering the places to go and people to meet. Shot in Malaysia, Singapore, Tokyo and Indonesia.
 
Life without Work
Director/Producer: Guy Smith
Description:
A combination of period drama and observational documentary. Two films looking at what it is like to be unemployed, both historically using drama reconstructions based on diaries from the early 1900’s, and for modern day job seekers, following their day to day life looking for work.
 
Art of the Sea - In Pictures
Director/Producer: Matthew Springford
Description:
1 x 60 BBC Scotland for BBC 4, filmed in HD.
Part of Sea Fever – The Story Of Britain And The Sea, a major new season on BBC Four that looks at the ways in which the sea has helped to shape modern Britain.
Poet and author Owen Sheers examines our changing relationship to the sea over the last four centuries and how this is reflected in the work of artists who have tried to capture its ever-changing essence in the stillness of a canvas, sculpture or photograph.
 
My Life in Verse - Cerys Matthews
Director/Producer: Mark Bates
Description:
1x 60 Wall to Wall for BBC2.
Welsh singer songwriter Cerys Matthews travels back to her roots to explore the extraordinary legacy of Celtic poetry.

 
Born Survivors
Director/Producer: Anna Hall
Description:
BBC Manchester for BBC3
1 x 60 part of the observational documentary series examining the reality of life for young people in Britain today.
 
Kevin McCloud and The Big Town Plan
Director/Producer: Hugo Smith
Description:
Talkback Thames for Channel 4
4 x 60 Presented by Kevin McCloud this landmark television series and initiative regenerating the town of Castleford, is aiming to improve the quality of life, environment and investment potential of the town.
 
Who Do You Think You Are: Jodie Kidd
Director/Producer: Christopher Bruce
Description:
Wall to Wall for BBC 1
1 x 60 Filmed on High Definition following supermodel Jodie Kidd as she uncovers her family history in the UK and North America.
 
The Culture Show
Director/Producer:
Description:
BBC Arts
Recent credits include films on Vaughan Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Jarvis Cocker, and the Book Club strand
 
A Very British Gangster
Director/Producer: Donal McIntyre
Description:
1 x 90 “The Real Sopranos” close up with notorious Manchester gangster family, The Noonans, following, literally, Dominic Noonan’s trials, and his tribulations.
 
Make Me a Muslim
Director/Producer: Narinder Minhas
Description:
Wildcard Productions for Channel 4
3 x 60 formatted reality documentaries following a group of secular Brits during one month’s no-holds-barred immersion into Islam, aided by three Muslim mentors.
Series Producer: Dominic Stobart, Exec
 
Real Families: Diary of a Mother on the Edge
Director/Producer: Allen Jewhurst
Description:
Chameleon Television for ITV1
1 x 60 story of one mother’s fight to raise her disabled children.
 
The Real Wild at Heart
Director/Producer: Wendy Holmwood
Description:
Daisybeck Productions for ITV1
1 x 60 filmed on High Definition (HD) observational documentary following the work of Virginia McKenna and the Born Free Foundation, as they rescued three circus lions from France and re-homed them in South Africa. Presented by Amanda Holden

 
Real Story Special: Stolen Bones
Director/Producer:
Description:
BBC Manchester for BBC1
1 x 60 filmed in New York, investigating the macabre true story of how stolen bones from corpses in the USA came to be implanted in patients in the UK.

 
Put Me Together Again
Director/Producer: Anna Hall
Description:
Yap Films for Channel 4 Factual / Science
2 x 60 observational documentary films following people with accidental brain injuries and their individual journeys to return to near normal life. Winner of Gold Documentary at the New York Film Festival.


 
Real Story – The McCartneys v The Fur Trade
Director/Producer:
Description:
BBC Manchester for BBC1
1 x 60 following the McCartneys in their campaign against the fur trade
 
MacIntyre's Big Sting - Series 3
Director/Producer:
Description:
True North Productions for FIVE
Donal MacIntyre’s crime series that turns the tables on the criminals who make everyday life misery for the rest of us - filmed an extensive variety of interviews, undercover stings and “doorsteps”.
Series Producer: Sarah Hey
 
Real Story: The Ripper Hoaxer
Director/Producer: Julie Beanland & Andrew Sheldon
Description:
True North Productions for BBC1
1 x 60 revealing how a police finally solved a 25-year-old mystery.
 
Henry's Wives with Terry Deary
Director/Producer: Mark McMullen
Description:
True North productions for BBC Education. Nominated to BAFTA by the BBC
Director of Photography in High Definition on this educational drama series. One of the best known children's authors, Terry Deary - who brought us the highly acclaimed Horrible Histories books - guides us through Henry's reign and everyday life in Tudor England.

 
Bollocks to Cancer
Director/Producer: Patrick Collerton
Description:
Yipp Films for Channel 4
1 x 60 Inspired by his own brush with “chemo”, former testicular cancer patient Patrick Collerton(Dir.”The Boy Who’s Skin Fell Off”) directed this funny, profound and uplifting film set in a Newcastle cancer ward, about the journey of 19 year old Steven Liddell, a chef from Alnwick, through chemo for testicular cancer.
 
Priest Idol
Director/Producer: Jane Beckwith
Description:
Diverse for Channel 4
3 x 60 Observational documentary series about a South Yorkshire church in a former mining village. This three-part series follows an American priest as he attempts to breathe new life into his church and community.
 
Rosi and the Female Fight Club
Director/Producer: Emily Barber
Description:
Yipp Films for ITV
1 x 30 following Rosi, champion female cage fighter back to the ring after the birth of her first child.
 
Zapped!
Director/Producer: Patrick Titley
Description:
Yap and Screenhouse Co-Production for Discovery Channel USA & Canada
1 x 120 science special bringing together entertainment and science, with death-defying stunts exploring the effect of electricity on the human body


 
Real Story: Death of a Policeman
Director/Producer: Sarah Hey & Andrew Sheldon
Description:
True North Productions for BBC1
1 x 60 following the case of David Bieber, an American bodybuilder convicted of murdering Yorkshire policeman Ian Broadhurst on Boxing Day 2003.

 
Edge of the City
Director/Producer: Anna Hall
Description:
Chameleon Television for Channel 4. (Nominated to BAFTA by Channel 4)
1 x 90 Controversial observational documentaries originally withdrawn from the schedules by Channel 4. This 'unprecedented' decision followed a warning from the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police that the timing of the programme would increase community tensions and provoke public disorder in Bradford. Edge of the City provides a powerful snapshot of the darker side of urban life in Britain. Following Bradford Social Services, the programme meets people who have a great - and often costly - dependency on the state, and the social workers who pick up the pieces.

 
Real Story Special
Director/Producer: Kristen Hadland
Description:
BBC1 current affairs series presented by Fiona Bruce
1 x 60 following the journey of John Dickinson, father of murdered teenager Caroline Dickinson, as he meets the people who tracked down and arrested the perpetrator.

 
Boots to Suits: The Changing Face of the BNP
Director/Producer: Julie Beanland
Description:
True North Productions for ITV Yorkshire
1 x 30 - with rare access to party insiders, this current affairs film looks beneath the surface of the BNP to discover if its new ‘respectable’ image is for real.
 
Stardate: Transit of Venus
Director/Producer: Patrick Titley
Description:
Screenhouse Productions for BBC2
Astronomy series screened to coincide with events in science. Insert location filming and live broadcast from Egypt following the transit of Venus across the Sun.
Presented by Adam Hart-Davies.
 
Flying Scotsman Comes Home
Director/Producer: Roger Finnigan
Description:
True North Productions for BBC Yorkshire
1 x 30 - this affectionate film traces the history of Flying Scotsman.


 
Tales from the Road
Director/Producer: Sarah Clarke / Irene Cockcroft
Description:
Our House Productions for ITV Yorkshire
6 x 30 - following characters who make a living using Britain’s roads
 
Leicester Football Academy
Director/Producer: Patricia Doherty
Description:
Chameleon Television for Channel 4
2 x 60 Ob-doc following trainee footballers over a period of 2 years whilst they try to make it into the Premiership


 
Science Shack - series 2
Director/Producer: Patrick Titley
Description:
Screenhouse Productions for BBC2
6 x 30 Presenter Adam Hart-Davies and his team attempt six new challenges, including walking on water and making themselves invisible.

 
The Lady and the Champ
Director/Producer: Patricia Doherty
Description:
Chameleon Television for BBC2
1 x 60 Observational documentary following Britain’s first female professional boxing manager.
 
REFEREES:

Anna Hall
Producer/Director

Stephen Scott
Producer/Director, Panorama

Andrew Sheldon
True North Productions

Hugo Smith
Producer/Director

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