The Diary Agency - Film and Television Crewing



Election
Director/Producer: Tina Gortmans & Richard Nash
Description:
Winner Children's BAFTA Entertainment Award 2009 Ten kids from across the nation will undergo a series of leadership tests and tasks in this dynamic new political reality tv series, culminating in a face-off between the two finalists at the House of Commons. The ultimate winner's prize is a trip to No 10 to present their manifesto to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Presenter: Angellica Bell Series Judge: Jonathan Dimbleby Diverse Productions BBC TV 10x30min


History of Now: The Story of the Noughties
Director/Producer: Various
Description:
A look back at the last decade, and the connections which are shaping the 21st century. Three films explore what it was like to live through the last decade, and the surprising, often hidden connections which are shaping the 21st century. Reflecting on the decade are a host of leading commentators and experts including Andrew Marr, Tanya Byron and Will Self. BBC TV 3x 30 mins 2009


Have You Heard From Johannesburg
Director/Producer: Connie Field
Description:
Part of a seven part documentary stories, produced and directed by Connie Field, chronicling the history of the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa’s entrenched apartheid regime and its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War. 90mins


Empire Of Cricket
Director/Producer: Sally Thompson & Francis Welch
Description:
Ahead of the keenly anticipated 2009 Ashes encounter between England and Australia, BBC Two explores cricket's rich sporting and social history in a documentary series about the four countries whose very different cricketing cultures created the modern game as we know it. From its origins in the public school playing fields and shires of rural England to its adoption in the twilight of Empire as the national sport of emerging nations such as Australia, the West Indies and India, cricket has always been shaped by factors beyond the boundary fence.The series contains rare and revealing archive, much of it unseen before on British television, and contributions from leading cricket writers and a glittering line-up of top players, past and present, including Kevin Pietersen, David Gower, Shane Warne, Steve Waugh, Sir Vivian Richards, Michael Holding, Sachin Tendulkar and Kapil Dev. BBC TV 4x 60min


Rape in the City
Director/Producer: Karen Edwards
Description:
In the wake of two recent, high-profile cases in which young women were brutally attacked and raped by groups of young men, journalist Sorious Samura investigates gang rape in the UK. Using data collected from various sources, including the crown courts, barristers and rape referral centres, Dispatches attempts to discover the extent and cause of the problem. Four young victims describe their traumatic experiences, while Samura also talks to groups of teenagers about their attitudes to sex and relationships. He is appalled to hear what the boys consider to be acceptable sexual activity and the fears expressed by the girls. While knife crimes and street weapons dominate the agenda on violent crime, Dispatches hears from youth workers, police officers and academics who believe this devastating type of attack requires more attention. Wall to Wall TV Channel 4 Dispatches


Planet Mechanics
Director/Producer: Caius Julyan & Matt Ainsworth
Description:
Can the Planet Mechanics Dick Strawbridge and Jem Stansfield use their eco-enginering smarts to fix the world? Across the series they build Britain's first street legal, air driven motorbike, a wood fuelled truck and power a farm using cow poo. Renegade Pictures National Geographic international 8 x 60mins


No Grounds for Gardening!
Director/Producer: Kerry Richardson
Description:
A Gardeners’ World Special that explores the latest in state of the art gardening – ‘vertical gardening’ – and shows you how to make one of your own! Presenter :Joe Swift BBC TV 60mins


Black Power Salute
Director/Producer: Geoff Small
Description:
A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment in which the radical spirit of the Sixties upstaged the greatest sporting event in the world. Two men made a courageous gesture that reverberated around the world and changed their lives forever. Tigerlily Films BBC TV 60 mins Producer: Natasha Dack Winner Screen Nation Award 2009 Nominated for RTS History Award 2009


Surviving Extremes - Ice
Director/Producer: Mark Soldinger
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Following the success of "Going To Extremes", this film follows Oxford professor Nick Middleton, as he journeys to Greenland to join an annual Inuit Whale hunting expedition in an effort to survive one of the most inhospitable places on earth. Channel 4/National Geographic Keo Films 60mins Super 16mm film Grierson documentary award nominee 2004


The Truth About Boy Bands
Director/Producer: Steve Cole & Iain Thompson
Description:
In the 1990s boy band fever took the UK by storm as group after group of young men danced and sang their way into the hearts of millions of teenage girls and more then a few boys! So just what happened to all the boy band superstars that fell by the wayside? Where are they now? Did being in a boy band live up to all they imagined? The Truth About Boy Bands comes reveals all! Iambic productions ITV 2x60 mins


Moira Stuart in Search of Wilberforce
Director/Producer: Gillian Bancroft
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BBC TV 60 mins IVCA (International Visual Communication Association ) Clarion Award Television Winner 2007 An incisive and often moving documentary across three continents, that follows the crusade of the man said to have abolished Britain's trade in human cargo. Stuart takes a fresh look at the apparent contradictions in the story and offers a new perspective on the abolition of the slave trade.


“HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELTON!”
Director/Producer: Martin Callanan
Description:
ITV “HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELTON!” Whizz Kid Entertainment 90mins A wry celebration of one of the UK's favourite sons 60th birthday with celebrity endorsements.


The Verdict
Director/Producer: Series Prod: Ros Ponder Exec: Tania Alexander
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RDF for BBC: Twelve celebrity jurors sit in judgement on a four day trial in a real courtroom, presided over by a real judge, with real barristers prosecuting and defending. The four films will observe for the first time the dynamics of a how a jury reaches its verdict. (TX Feb 2007)


Who Do You Think You Are? (Moria Stuart)
Director/Producer: Ian Leese
Description:
BBC TV 1x60mins Wall to Wall Television One of Britain’s best-loved celebrities traces their family tree to reveal the surprising, extraordinary and often moving stories of their ancestors. Best Popular Factual Entertainment Programme, Broadcast Awards 2006 Winner of Indie Award for Best Historical Documentary 2005.


UK Music Hall of Fame
Director/Producer: Martin Callanan
Description:
Channel 4 6x120 mins Documentary. Initial. 2004 saw the launch of the UK’s first-ever Hall of Fame for contemporary music


“BLACK FLASH: A CENTURY OF BLACK FOOTBALLERS”
Director/Producer: Geof Small
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BBC TV 90 mins documentary. RTS Award, BANFF International Sports Programmme Award, EMMA (Ethnic Minority Media Award), Nominated for BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award


Band Aid 20: Justice not Charity
Director/Producer: Martin Callanan
Description:
BBC TV 1x60 mins.Initial/Endemol The Band Aid 20: Justice Not Charity documentary was nominated for a number of awards and was credited by Bob Geldof with substantially increasing donations to the charity. Its an hour long ‘behind the scenes’ documentary on the making of the Band Aid 20 charity single with access to all the artists and organisers who made the project happen. Nominated for a Rose d'Or.


Did You Catch My Drift?
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Drama. Weekend Films. 16/35mm. Director of Photography.


Distinction
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Drama. Time & Vision Productions. 16mm. Director of Photography.


South Bank Show: "Rap" & "Baaba Maal"
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2x60 mins. Documentary. LWT. 16mm. (USA & Senegal).


Kanga
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Drama. Kanga Productions. 16mm. Director-Cameraman.


Comic Relief in Sierra Leone
Director/Producer: Kate Thomas
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1x60 mins. Documentary. BBC TV. With Jimmy Nail and Kevin Whatley.


“John Peel's Record Box”
Director/Producer: Martin Callanan
Description:
Initial/Endemol for Channel 4 Nominated for an International Emmy


Fighting For Fidel
Director/Producer: Stephen Lyle
Description:
BBC TV 30mins 2005. Digi Beta.


Lock Up Your Sons
Director/Producer: Ben Chanan
Description:
1x60 mins. Documentary. Firecracker Films for Channel 4.


Little Monsters
Director/Producer: Rupert Smith
Description:
1x60 mins. Documentary. Princess Productions for Sky TV.


Faking It - Showgirl turns Showdancer
Director/Producer: Shauna Minoprio
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1x60 mins. Documentary. RDF for Channel 4. Beta SX. Best Features Programme, BAFTA Awards (Series 3) Best Popular Factual Entertainment Programme, Broadcast Awards 2002 Best Prime Time Features Programme, Royal Television Society.


Classmates
Director/Producer: Rupert Smith
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1x60 mins. Documentary. RDF for Channel 4.


Tabloid Tales (series 1&2)
Director/Producer: Many Sherwood
Description:
1x60 mins. Documentary. Brighter Pictures for BBC TV.


Lethal Weapons
Director/Producer: Andy O'Connell
Description:
1x60 mins. Documentary. Diverse Productions for Channel 4.


American Vampires
Director/Producer: Mark Soldinger
Description:
1x60 mins. Documentary. XYTV for Channel 4. Represented Channel 4 at the ‘Hot Doc’ Canadian Film Festival 2001


Coronation Britain
Director/Producer: Carolyn Payne
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1x60 mins. Documentary. BDP Media/History Television International for Channel 5.


Women and Work
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Ricochet South for Channel 4.


Scoop! Scandal! & Disaster...(series)
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1x30 mins. Documentary. Carlton Television.


First Edition - Bad Girls
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1x30 mins. Documentary. Carlton Television.


First Edition - Roadworks II
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1x30 mins. Documentary. Carlton Television.


First Edition - Women in the Red
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1x30 mins. Documentary. Carlton Television.


First Edition - Hepatitus C
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1x30 mins. Documentary. Carlton Television.


Big Brother - What happened to the housemates?
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Bazal/Endemol for Channel 4.


The Chemical Generation
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Optomen Television for Channel 4. Nominated for RTS Award.


Legends (series 1&2)
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Carlton TV.


Children's Casualty (series)
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Carlton TV.


Money, Money, Money (series)
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Siguy Films for BBC TV.


The Great Hospital Food Makeover!
Director/Producer: Callum Macrae
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Blakeway Productions for Channel 4.


Family Histories: "Jamaica" & "Together Again"
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1x60 mins. Documentary. RDF Television for Channel 4.


Get Your Act Together
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1x30 mins. Documentary. Initial Film & TV Productions for BBC TV.


Metroland (3 series)
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30 mins. Documentary. Bazal/Endemol Entertainment for Carlton TV. "Stealing Air", "The French Connection", "Lost but not Forgotten", "Angels and Insects", "Getting from A to Z", "Single Mothers by Choice", "Big Time", "Potty Woman", & "Star Dust".


Opera Works - with Jonathan Miller
Director/Producer: Patrick Uden
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Uden Associates for BBC TV.


First Edition - Have a Go Heros
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Documentary. ZKK for Carlton TV.


First Edition - Cancer Cures
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Documentary. ZKK for Carlton TV.


First Edition - Sex, Drugs & Videotape
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Documentary. ZKK for Carlton TV.


Kama Sutra
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Diverse Productions for Channel 4.


Reggae Boyz - The Fans
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Diverse Productions for Channel 4.


Black & White
Director/Producer: Geoff Small
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Hard Cash/Maroon Productions for BBC TV.


Countdown to Tommorow - The making of James Bond film "Tommorow Never Dies"
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Creative Partnership for ITV.


St Paul's
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Wall to Wall Television for BBC TV.


Moving As A Massive
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1x30 mins. Documentary. Compulsive Viewing for Channel 4. Lloyds Bank BAFTA Award.


Future Tense
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Cafe Productions for Discovery Channel.


Inside Story: Art Squad
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1x40 mins. Documentary. Touch Productions for BBC TV.


Equinox: Natural Born Genius
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1x60 mins. Documentary. John Gau Productions for Channel 4.


The London Programme: The Frank Warren Story
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1x30 mins. Documentary. LWT for ITV.


Dispatches: New Labour Old Habits
Director/Producer: Geoff Small
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1x60 mins. Documentary. Maroon Productions for Channel 4.


Dispatches: "Kids on the Rocks", "Romanian Babies", "Home Alone"
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Documentary. Pillarbox Productions for Channel 4.


Think Tank II
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60 mins. Documentary. Juniper Productions for BBC TV.


Without Walls: Mondrian - Through the keyhole
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60 mins. Documentary. Charlotte Street Productions for Channel 4.


Omnibus: Freeze
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60 mins. Documentary. Charlotte Street Productions for BBC TV.


Disaster - The Marchioness
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60 mins. Documentary. Stone City Films for BBC TV.


Education Special: Taken for Granted
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40 mins. Documentary. Vanson Wardle Productions for BBC TV.


Tales From the Wasteland
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60 mins. Documentary. October Films for Channel 4.


Chef
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60 mins. Comedy-Drama. Crucial Films for BBC TV. 16mm.


Classic Trains
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60 mins. Documentary. Uden Associates for Channel 4. 16mm.


Flight Of The Swan
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30 mins. Drama. Non Aligned Communications. 35mm.


Dormant Genius
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60 mins. Documentary. Hadada Productions. 16mm. Nigeria.


Cutting Edge: Growing Apart
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60 mins. Documentary. Union Pictures for Channel 4. 16mm.


Short Stories: Distant Voices Still Lips
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60 mins. Documentary. Amirani Films for Channel 4. 16mm.


The Match Agassi Vs Sampras
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Commerical. Axis Films. 16mm.


Crimewatch UK
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Drama. BBC TV. 16mm. Director of Photography.


Le Bohemian Noir
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Drama-Documentary. Double Edge Productions. 16mm. Director of Photography.


Welcome to the Terrordome
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Drama. Non Aligned Communications. 16/35mm. Director of Photography.


Windscale Fire SFX
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Drama-Documentary. Stone City Films. (2nd Unit). 16mm. Director of Photography.


Lonely Planet Guide To Cuba & Haiti
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Lifestyle/Travel. Channel 4/Discovery. Winner "Best Travel Documentary" - New York Festival.


Sex and Shopping
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60 mins. Lifestyle/Travel. Douglas Chirnside Productions for Channel 5. Rio/New York & London.


Diet Another Day
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60 mins. Lifestyle/Travel. Brighter Pictures for Channel 4.

Brief biography:

Ian Watts is a freelance Film (16/35mm) and TV director of photography. He has more than 20 years wide-ranging experience of filming dramas, news features, current affairs and documentaries in Europe, America, the Caribbean and Africa. In addition he has worked on award winning lifestyle, factual, arts and entertainment programmes in 42 countries ranging from Ghana to Greenland.

He owns Sony HD EX3, 790 Digital Betacam, DSR 450 DVCAM and HDV Z1E cameras, plus other ancillary video equipment, a large lighting kit and a camera dolly. He is proficient in both film and video shooting on formats ranging from 35mm and 16mm film through to Broadcast video formats including High Definition. He has a full driving licence, and a custom-made fully equipped crew vehicle.

A British passport holder, he is semi-fluent in French, and has an American (I) work Visa for USA. He is BBC Camera & Lighting Safety Certified and also a member of BECTU (Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union). He has also worked as a BAFTA judge.

List of countries worked in:
Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Haiti, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Russia, Saint Lucia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Slovakia,
South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States

Affiliations
Member Guild of Television Cameramen.
BECTU.
Working I Visa for USA.
BBC Camera & Lighting Safety Certified.
CRB checked.
BAFTA judge

Credits on BBC made programmes and documentaries shot around the world include;
“History of Now: The Story of the Noughties", "EMPIRE OF CRICKET”,“ PANORAMA”,”THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD”, “MOSCOW OLYMPICS 25th”(Nominated for RTS Award), “THE ONE SHOW”, “CORRESPONDENT”,“NO GROUNDS FOR GARDENING!”,“ HOLLYWOOD GREATS”, “HOW TO WRITE A MILLS & BOON”,“RETURN TO: ‘CASTAWAY’ &‘ LAKESIDERS ’” ,“ FLOG IT ” ,“ BLACK FLASH: A CENTURY OF BLACKFOOTBALLERS” (Nominated for BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award, RTS Award, BANFF International Sports Programme Award, and EMMA [Ethnic Minority Media Award]), “THE FASTER RACE” (Nominated for RTS Award),“THE JOY OF GARDENING I & II”,“THE JOY OF HOME”, “THE ANTIQUES SHOW”,“ WATCHDOG”,“THE MURDER GAME ”,“ TOMORROW’S WORLD”, “LANDMARKS – THE CARIBBEAN (5 PART SERIES) ”, “THE DOME”, “E VERYMAN – NATION OF ISLAM”, “ MAGIC”, “ BLACK BRITAIN”, “ISLAND APART”, “WAR:DO OR DIE”, “TRADING RACES”, “DEATH BY DIY”, “ONE FOOT IN THE PAST” ,“BETRAYAL”,
“TV AFRICA”, “THE ESSENTIAL...NAOMI CAMPBELL”, “1966 WE WERE THERE”, “SONGS OF PRAISE” & “SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR 2004-2009”

Credits as Cameraman on Music Programmes and Videos:
“Concert for Diana”,“Amy Winehouse - Vodafone TBA”, “Baaba Maal Live at RFH” & “Luciano – Live in London” Director/Cameraman (6 Cameras), “Brit Awards 2000”,“Live Aid 10th Anniversary” –BBC TV. “MOBO Awards”, “Phil Collins”, “New Soul Nation”,Isaac Hayes, Bon Jovi, Barry White, Duran Duran, Boy George, Tricky, Pulp– (Mercury Music Prize), Tupac Shakur, Lauryn Hill, Backstreet Boys, Bjork, Rose Marie, Robert Wyatt, Erasure, Stereophonics, Talking Heads, Refugee Voices for Darfur, INXS & Tom Jones

Corporate Credits include: Rolex, Sony, UNICEF, London Cultural Olympiad, Reebok, BBC World Service

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