BULLDOGS AWARDS 2008
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DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Meet the Natives

Winner

Meet the Natives

September, Channel 4, (Keo Films)

Keo Films’ Meet the Natives was the show that flipped the anthropological documentary on its head. Instead of the usual take that has westerners filming the strange lifestyles of tribes of people in far flung places, Meet the Natives decided to get one of those far flung tribes, in this case a group of five men (JJ Nakou, Chief Yapa, Joel, Posen and Albi) from the South Pacific island of Tanna, to come over to the UK to take a look at our own strange rituals. The commissioning editor was Channel 4’s Simon Dickson. The exec producers were Andrew Palmer and Zam Baring. The series producer was Will Anderson and the director Gavin Searle. The editor was Chris King, the associate producers were Tom Beard and Frankie Fathers. The head of production was Katherine Perry and production management was by Larissa Hickey and Jane Lowe. The narrator was Jimmy Joseph Nakou.

RUNNERS UP
The Tower

2nd

The Tower

June, BBC1, (BBC)

The film covered Berkeley Homes’s development of Aragon Tower on the notorious Pepys Estate in Deptford, South East London, from a poverty stricken council block into the tallest privately owned residential block in London. The Tower captured two distinct Londons in the contrast between the old residents who had been moved into other accomodation and the new money that would now be moving in. The director and producer was Anthony Wonke.

Mountain

3rd

Mountain

August, BBC1, IWC Media

Griff Rhys Jones journeyed through the British Isles from the north of Scotland to Dartmoor across the roughest mountain landscapes and, along the way he met crofters, poets, photographers, mountain rescue teams who live and work there and also took a look at the historical tales of the British mountains. Mountain was produced by Ian MacMillan; the executive producers were Richard Klein and Andrea Miller (for the BBC), and Hamish Barbour (for IWC Media).