Intelligent Factual - The Televisual Festival

Roy Ackerman

Managing director, Fresh One Productions

Roy Ackerman is managing director of Fresh One Productions, the company set up by Jamie Oliver. Roy moved to Fresh One after taking Diverse Production from a niche U.K. indie to a growing, award-winning and innovative company with impact world-wide. Credits include the recent acclaimed Dream School (Channel 4), the Emmy-winning Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (ABC) and BAFTA nominated drama Mrs Mandela.

Theatrical credits include Reagan: American Idol, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Sundance Grand Jury Award winner Why We Fight and the Gibney/Jarecki film The Trials of Henry Kissinger. Other credits - the hit arts format, Operatunity, arts series Musicality and factual entertainment series and RTS winner Last Chance Kids (Channel 4).

Award winning documentaries include BAFTA winners 100% White and BBC One epic Tsunami: 7 Hours on Boxing Day; the RTS and Banff award-winning After The War:Conquering Germany (BBC Two); RTS award-winning Not Cricket (BBCFour/Two).

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Stephen Armstrong

Journalist

Stephen Armstrong is a journalist and sometime broadcaster. He writes for the Sunday Times, The Guardian, Elle and Total Film as well as appearing on Radio 4 and the occasional Newsnight Review.

Chairing: MEET THE COMMISSIONERS: Formats and Features
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Stuart Cosgrove, Director of Creative Diversity, Channel 4

Zam Baring

Managing director, Keo Films

Zam trained as a film editor in a commercials house in Soho before going freelance as the non-linear revolution happened. He has edited many documentary series for broadcasters in the UK and abroad. He joined KEO in 1997 and has gradually become less hands–on in the edit suite and more focused on the day to day running and development of the company.

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Thomas Benski

Managing director, Pulse

French-Brazilian Thomas Benski has produced over 60 music videos and commercials, a dozen short films, 4 TV series, 2 feature films and a number of interactive/cross platform projects.

Thomas – who was named a Broadcast Hotshot in 2010 – set up Pulse Films with Marisa Clifford to produce content across different sectors and platforms, including television, music, advertising, film and digital media. The company has grown from two people to a company of 40 staff in just five years.

The TV department at Pulse is responsible for award-winning performance documentary Pineapple Dance Studios, ITV’s ratings hit Look Back, Don’t Stare in 2010, which followed Take That’s reunion with Robbie Williams and the GRAMMY-nominated Blur documentary No Distance Left To Run.

Pulse is making its move into feature film with drama documentary Who Is Dayani Cristal and the adaptation of the hit Sony PSP™ game Gangs of London.

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Jon Blair

Commissioning editor major series and specials, Al Jazeera English

Jon Blair has been hired by Al Jazeera to executive produce all major documentary series for them including Al Jazeera Correspondent, The 9/11 Decade and Sold into Slavery: A Twenty First Century Evil.  He is the only director working in Documentaries in the UK who has won all three of the premier awards in his field an Oscar, an Emmy and a BAFTA.

Jon Blair’s credits include Anne Frank Remembered; Schindler, which was used extensively by Steven Spielberg as a research source for his film Schindler's List; Dancing with the Devil which portrays the bloody battle between druglords and police in Rio where more than 1,000 people die each year; Ochberg Orphans about the 1921 expedition of Isaac Ochberg who saved 200 Orphans form the wreckage of post revolutionary Russia and And Murder Most Foul about crime in South Africa produced with ex South African Antony Sher.

As a current affairs producer/director on Tonight, This Week, and TV Eye, Blair has covered domestic and foreign stories including the first program for British television about the Soweto uprising There Is No Crisis!; and coverage of other issues in the Middle East, Cambodia and Angola. He has written on these wars for most major serious British newspapers as well as The New York Times.

Among his many other credits, Blair wrote and produced the highly acclaimed dramatization of the Kimberly Carlile Inquiry starring Daniel Day-Lewis, based on an infamous case of child abuse. He also produced Two Dogs and Freedom, a benefit concert for black children in South Africa at Sadlers Wells, London, featuring Bob Hoskins, Janet Suzman, Richard E. Grant, Jonas Gwangwa and others.

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Tom Brisley

Creative director, Arrow Media

Tom Brisley trained at the BBC and has worked for DSP for 10 years, most recently in the role of Creative Director where he has been responsible for creating and executive producing more than 100 hours of quality factual television. An acknowledged expert in co-productions, his creative credits include long-running series such as I Shouldn’t Be Alive and the award-winning Seconds from Disaster as well as documentary specials such as Concorde’s Last Flight, the BAFTA nominated Tsunami: Caught on Camera and the soon to be released Children of 9/11 and Mermaids – Body of Evidence.

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Steve  Clarke

Editor Television magazine, London correspondent for Variety

Steve Clarke is a media journalist who edits Television, the monthly journal of the Royal Television Society, and writes about British television for Variety. He has also edited Broadcast. He is a former media correspondent at the Evening Standard and the Sunday Times, and has contributed to the media pages of all the national dailies. He is the co-author of Citizen Greg, a biography of Greg Dyke, and Fuzzy Monsters: Fear and Loathing at the BBC.

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SHOW ME THE MONEY: How to Win the Co-production Game
MEET THE CONTROLLER: Janice Hadlow

Jo  Clinton-Davis

Controller Popular Factual Commissioning, ITV

Jo joined ITV in in 2007 in the newly created role of controller of popular factual commissioning from UKTV. Her ITV commissions include Long Lost Family, Strangeways and the Perspectives strand. As head of commissioning at UKTV her credits included The Clothes Show, Spa of Embarrassing Illnesses, and daily food programme Market Kitchen. Jo joined UKTV as commissioning boss in 2005 after a 23-year stint at the BBC where she was responsible for commissioning Grumpy Old Men and Restoration.

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Stuart Cosgrove

Director of Creative Diversity, Channel 4

Stuart Cosgrove was appointed Channel 4's Director of Creative Diversity in 2010. He has managerial responsibility for Nations and Regions, Sports, Education, Creative and Cultural Diversity, Indie Relations, and Paralympics.

Prior to this, Stuart was Director of Nations and Regions with overall responsibility for Channel 4's strategy and corporate development outside London, which encompasses 35% of Channel 4's originated commissions. During this time Stuart oversaw Channel 4's investment outside London leap from £65m in 2000 to £125m in 2009.

Stuart joined Channel 4 in April 1994 as Commissioning Editor for Independent Film and Video, which commissioned award-winning dramas such as Irvine Welsh's Granton Star Cause (subsequently titled The Acid House), and pioneered themed programming zones including the film zone The Shooting Gallery, the international series Secret Asia and sex-industry series The Red Light Zone.

In 1995 Stuart was appointed Controller of Arts and Entertainment, overseeing hit US acquisitions ER, Friends and Frasier, as well as TFI Friday, Brass Eye, the Mark Thomas Comedy Product and Harry Hill.

Before joining Channel 4, Stuart was a producer at Big Star, makers of the award-winning popular culture series Halfway to Paradise.

Speaking at: KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Stuart Cosgrove, Director of Creative Diversity, Channel 4

Paul Crompton

Producer, Barge Pole Productions

Factual producer for 20 years Crompton recently formed new indie Barge Pole with actor Timothy Spall. As well as running Barge Pole Crompton is also a freelance Executive Producer overseeing obdoc series for Channel 5 and BBC.

Recently he has worked on BBC’s ‘Brooke Kinsella: My Brother Ben’, ‘Timothy Spall: Back at Sea, and Serious Explorers: Raleigh; Sky1’s ‘UK Border Force’ and ‘Emergency with Angela Griffin and Channel 5’s The Great Train Robber’s Secret Tapes: Revealed.

Crompton spent almost 4 years as a Commissioning Editor for Factual Programmes at Sky1 and before that he was a jobbing Series Producer.

Barge Pole is currently in post production for the final series of Timothy Spall: Back at Sea, for broadcast on BBC Four in Spring 2012.

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Nick Curwin

Chief Executive, The Garden

Nick Curwin began his career as a print journalist before working at LWT for nine years and then at Mentorn, where he was Head of Programmes for Folio. He launched Firefly, later renamed Dragonfly, with Magnus Temple in 2004 and sold it to Shine in 2007. He left at the end of last year and has now launched a new indie with Temple called The Garden. His credits include 24 Hours in A&E, One Born Every Minute, The Family, Anatomy For Beginners, Going Cold Turkey, Jamie's Fowl Dinners, Kill It Cook It Eat It and The Autopsy.

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Martin Davidson

Commissioning Editor for History and Business programming, BBC

Martin Davidson is Commissioning Editor for History and Business programming at the BBC.

Martin joined the BBC in 1988 and worked across series as diverse as The Late Show (1989-1993), A History Of British Art, Reputations, and Decisive Weapons, before becoming Executive Producer of A History Of Britain, presented by Simon Schama.

In 2001 he became Head of History at RDF Media, responsible for Story Of The Novel, Spitfire Ace, Bomber Crew, Scrapheap Challenge and The Queen's Castle, among others. He returned to the BBC in 2005 as Commissioning Executive Producer, Independents, Specialist Factual, before becoming Acting Genre Commissioner, Specialist Factual, in March 2007.

He was appointed Commissioning Editor, Specialist Factual Programming In-house, in November 2007.

In his current role, Martin commissions history and business for BBC One, Two and Four.

Commissions include Andrew Marr's History Of Modern Britain, History Cold Case, The Virtual Revolution, The Love Of Money and Empire Of The Seas.

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Mike Dicks

PACT policy director

Mike is senior policy executive at Pact – the trade association for independent content makers in the UK – where he campaigns and lobbies to ensure that content makers, and specifically digital content makers, operate in a healthy market place.

Before joining Pact, Mike was a content producer himself, working for some of the leading indie producers of multi-platform content, on projects for clients that include the BBC, Channel 4, Nickelodeon, Playstation and Lego amongst others.

Mike has been involved with a number of innovative, broadcast related formats for the last 15 years. From building some of Channel 4’s first websites, to creating online TV to boxed game entertainment shows, interactive dramas and online documentaries.

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Simon Dickson

Creative director, Dragonfly Film & Television

Simon Dickson is Creative Director of Dragonfly Film & Television Productions. Between 2006 and May 2011, he was Deputy Head of Documentaries at Channel 4, where he was responsible for the Channel's 9pm series strategy. His credits include 24 Hours In A&E, Amish: World's Squarest Teenagers, Coppers,The Family,The Force, Meet The Natives, International Emmy winner The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off, The House of Obsessive Compulsives, and Cutting Edge docs Living With Brucie and A Boy Called Alex. He co-created and commissioned the highly successful Dragonfly series The Hotel, The Family, and One Born Every Minute (BAFTA Best Factual Series 2010), and has also dipped his toe into cross-platform TV, as the commissioner of 2010's experimental multiplatform event, Seven Days.

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Dimitri Doganis

Managing director, Raw Television

Managing director of RAW TV, Dimitri started his career working as one of the first generation of video journalists at 24 hour news station Channel One, winning the nomination as the Royal Television Society’s Young Journalist of the Year.

After two years he set up a small multi-skilled unit within another independent company before freelancing as a Producer / Director for the BBC and Channel 4.

He set up RAW TV in 2000 with a small development deal from Channel 4 to make popular documentaries. After initially directing a couple of RAW films such as a PBS NOVA in Iraq, he has been executive producer for much of RAW’s output, winning many awards for documentaries, journalism and current affairs.

As managing director Dimitri has overseen the creative development of the company, and managed the company’s growth into new areas, forging relationships with broadcasters in the UK, US and elsewhere.

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Nick Godwin

Head of Documentaries, Cineflix Productions UK

As Head of Documentaries at Cineflix, Nick develops documentaries for American, Canadian, and British broadcasters, including Channel 4, Five, History, National Geographic and the Discovery Channels. Based in London, he is also Executive Producer on projects such as Nothing Personal, Cold Blood, Nazi Hunters, Eaten Alive, Final 24, Psychic Investigators, Paradise Lost and Manson.

Before joining Cineflix in 2007, Nick was Head of Documentaries at Wag TV, where he originated a number of successful series and shows including Channel 4’s Face of Britain, Cult Killer and Trouble in Paradise. Prior to Wag TV, Nick, a graduate of Britain’s National Film and TV School, was an award winning director with a range of top end credits  including Secret Intersex, Into Africa, Cleopatra, Modern Times and Cutting Edge.

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Steve Gowans

Head of factual entertainment, Five

Steve Gowans has been commissioning factual entertainment at Five since 2004. His commissions include The Hotel Inspector, Extreme Fishing with Robson Green and The Gadget Show. He also looks after the channel’s pop culture output, including quick turn-around docs such as programmes on Cheryl Cole and Mamma Mia the Musical. And he has overseen constructed social experiments, such as the RTS nominated Banged Up.

Before Five, Gowans spent 15 years at Chrysalis News & Sport working his way up as researcher, AP and then producer on hundreds of hours of live sport, magazine shows, news shows and documentaries, including ITV Snooker, LWT News and Gazza’s Soccer School. From 1994 until 1998 Gowans was series editor of Football Italia for Channel 4 and then series editor/executive producer of acclaimed list show Top Tens. In 2002 he became head of entertainment at Chrysalis Television, where he ran all non-sports output, before joining Five.

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Alex Graham

Chief Executive Wall to Wall

Alex Graham is CEO of Wall to Wall, a Shed Media company and one of the leading independent producers in the world. Wall to Wall’s credits include Who Do You Think You Are?, New Tricks, The 1900 House and the Oscar winning documentary feature Man on Wire. Alex is the Chair of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival. He is a former chair of the independent producers’ trade association Pact and now sits on their Patrons’ Group. He is a fellow of the Royal Television Society and the Royal Society of Arts. In 2009 he received an Honorary Doctorate from City University for services to journalism.

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Alan  Griffiths

CEO, World Media Rights

Alan Griffiths is CEO of World Media Rights, one of the largest producers of factual programmes in the UK.

The company supplies factual series to 40 countries around the world and its programmes are regularly seen on AETN and Discovery (in the USA and the UK), France 5 and Planete (in France) and ZDF and Spiegel TV (in Germany), as well as on television networks across the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Recent successes include World War Two in HD Colour, Nazi Collaborators, Nazi Hunters and Air Crash Confidential.

Prior to founding World Media Rights, Alan was Editor of Business Programmes at the BBC (from 1990-95) and Head of Online at BBC News (from 1995-97), where he created BBC News Online. From 1997 he ran the digital consultancy operation of Chime Communications plc.

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Janice Hadlow

Controller, BBC Two

Janice Hadlow was appointed Controller of BBC Two in November 2008.

Since Janice took up the helm, the channel has seen a resurgence in specialist factual, comedy and drama. In 2011, the channel won five RTS and five Bafta awards including BAFTAs for Wonders Of The Solar System and Welcome To Lagos. BBC Two has also made its mark with with live events like Lambing Live, Stargazing Live and World Book Night, as well as growing new talent, including Mary Beard, Amanda Vickery, Alice Roberts, Lorraine Pascale and Brian Cox.

Before BBC Two, Janice was the Controller of BBC Four, from July 2004. During this time BBC Four grew significantly in reach and share; it was twice named as non terrestrial Channel of the Year (Broadcast 2008, MGEITF 2006).

Before BBC Four, Janice was head of specialist factual at Channel 4 (from 2002), where her commissions included David Starkey's Six Wives, The 1940s House, The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off, Operatunity and Death of Klinghoffer (which won an Emmy). Janice moved to Channel 4 in 1999 as head of history, art and religion.

Before Channel 4, Janice worked for the BBC joining as a production trainee in 1986, initially working as a Radio 4 producer and going on to become editor of The Late Show on BBC Two. From 1993-1995, she was deputy head of BBC Music and Arts as well as head of Late Show Productions. In 1995 Janice was appointed joint head of the BBC's History department.

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Paul Heaney

President and Managing Director, Cineflix Rights

Paul Heaney joined Cineflix in 2002 lauching the company’s sales division, now known as Cineflix Rights. Paul oversees an international sales team, based out of London, New York, Toronto, and Montreal. Paul and his team are responsible for growing the sales volume and distribution coverage of more than 2000 hours of factual, factual entertainment, and formats, kids, and scripted series from Cineflix Studios, including Copper and The Command. Paul oversees the distribution of Cineflix’s extensive portfolio of content from both third-party producers and Cineflix Productions, to more than 180 territories worldwide.

Paul has more than 20 years experience in distribution, management, marketing, and business development for TV and radio. He came to Cineflix from BSKYB where he served as Commercial Director for the Technology channel (.tv). Prior to that he was the Head Of Sales for Wild & Real, the factual division at Southern Star.

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Boyd Hilton

TV editor, Heat magazine

Boyd Hilton has worked heat magazine since its inception in 1999, and is currently TV & Reviews Editor. During that time he has interviewed an array of A-list celebrities from Sir Elton John to Ricky Gervais. He also wrote the book Inside Little Britain with Matt Lucas and David Walliams and regularly appears as a critic and commentator on TV and radio shows including Front Row. Boyd has been reviewing books every week for the Simon Mayo show on Radio 5 Live for the last seven years, and in 2008 presented his own documentary on Britney Spears for Sky.

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Christopher Hird

Founder, Dartmouth Films

Christopher Hird is the founder and managing director of Dartmouth Films, which concentrates on making independent documentaries, pioneering new ways of funding and distributing them and encouraging new and emerging talent in the industry. He is the executive producer of the Sundance premiered films Black Gold (2006), The End of the Line (2009) and The Flaw (2011). In the last year he has produced more than six feature documentaries including The Battle for Barking (More4), John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See (ITV1), After the Apocalypse (More4), Planeat and How To Re-Establish a Vodka Empire, which has its premiere at the BFI London Film Festival.

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David Hooper

Managing director, Espresso TV

David has enjoyed a career in the television industry spanning over 25 years as a producer,director, editor and production/post-production facilities house founder and latterly as an International TV distributor. He formed Espresso TV in 1992, initially as a production company with a pilot project entitled Espresso for the BBC. A few years later David was approached to instigate a daily multi-language sports programming/distribution service to Latin & Hispanic North America. Since 2000 David has expanded the company to specialise in international co-production and distribution specialising in documentaries , factual entertainment and lifestyle series. He has appeared on a number of international distribution panels and is a visiting lecturer at Brighton University.

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Andrew Jackson

Deputy head, Features, Channel 4

Andrew Jackson was appointed Deputy Head, Features in April 2010. Reporting to Head of Factual Entertainment and Features, Sue Murphy, Jackson is responsible for overseeing a commissioning team who work on a clutch of the Channel’s most popular and distinctive lifestyle shows. His recent commissions include Hugh’s Fish Fight, Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags, Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare, Kirstie’s Homemade Home, The Sex Education Show, The Restoration Man and Help! My House is Falling Down. As well as commissioning brand new programmes the team also look after and develop established brands such as Embarrassing Bodies, Superscrimpers, Location Location Location, Supersize vs Superskinny and Gok’s Clothes RoadShow.

Jackson joined Channel 4 in April 2006 as Editor, Features. Prior to joining the Channel Jackson worked at IWC Media in Glasgow where he was a Director, Series Director and then Series Producer of popular C4 features formats: Relocation Relocation; Location Location Location and Best and Worst Places to Live. He was charged with reinvigorating both series, which were already well established, and managed to achieve increased audiences of over 5 million.

Prior to joining IWC, Jackson worked at both the BBC and Granada TV in Manchester as a researcher and producer/director on shows ranging from The National Lottery Live and Question of Pop to TV Revealed and Good Living. He has also directed programmes for the US Discovery Travel Channel and TLC.

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Alison Kirkham

Commissioning editor, features and formats, BBC One and BBC Two

Alison Kirkham moved from her role as commissioning executive for BBC One features in July 2010 to her current role, where she commissions all factual features and formats for BBC One and BBC Two from both the independent sector and in-house.

Her BBC executive producing credits include Joanna Lumley In The Land of The Northern Lights, Accidental Heroes, The Delicious Miss Dahl and Great British Waste Menu.

She joined the BBC in 2005 as an executive producer for Daytime and spent six months as acting Controller of BBC Daytime in 2006.

Before joining the BBC, Alison worked for Cactus TV and in ITV Current Affairs.

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Dan Korn

SVP Programming for UK and Western Europe

Based in London, Dan Korn runs the central programming team for UK and Western Europe, DNI’s single largest business division. His team is responsible for creative strategy and programme sourcing of 3000 hours of content for 17 Channel brands (50 unique feeds) across 16 markets, working in conjunction with the programming teams in UK, Nordics, Benelux, South (Italy, France, Iberia) and Germany. His most recent commissions include Alone In The Wild (to be transmitted this Autumn), Unstoppable: The James Cracknell Trilogy and Walking The Amazon with Ed Stafford.

Dan has been with the company since June 2005. Prior to his current appointment, Dan served as Vice President & Head of Programming for Discovery UK, Head of Factual and, prior to that, Head of Production, in which capacity, he spearheaded several of Discovery UK’s leading original franchises, including My Shocking Story, How Do They Do It, Chop Shop, Crimes That Shook The World and World’s Toughest Tribes.

As Head of Programming for the UK, Dan led the channel launch teams for Quest and Investigation Discovery and his team’s programming strategy and execution helped ensure that last year, Discovery Channel UK was named 2010 Broadcast Digital Factual Channel of the year.

Before joining Discovery, Dan was managing director of leading independent production company, 3BM Television, where he produced and developed programmes for all the leading British broadcasters, including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five and, of course, Discovery Channel. His credits include the BAFTA-award winning Nuremberg: Goering’s Last Stand, the Broadcast Award winning Age of Terror (for which he directed episode 3, In The Name of God), Zero Hour, Lords of the Underworld, Cannibal, Torso In The Thames and the RTS Award nominee, Boy With a Tumour for a Face.

In 2003, Dan negotiated the sale of 3BM to the Ten Alps Television group, headed by Bob Geldof, before departing the company two years later to join Discovery UK as Head of Production.

 

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Stephen Lambert

Chief Executive, Studio Lambert

Stephen Lambert is one of Britain's best known creative television executives, responsible for creating award-winning documentary formats such as Undercover Boss, Four in a Bed, Secret Millionaire, Faking It and Wife Swap.

He is the chief executive of Studio Lambert which is based in London and Los Angeles. The American version of Undercover Boss, which the US arm of the company produces for CBS, was the most popular new show in any genre in the 2009-10 television season and continues to be a top 20 show. In addition to Boss, the company makes shows for many US cable networks. In the UK, Studio Lambert makes the highly popular Four in a Bed and Fairy Jobmother for Channel 4. It is currently producing its first studio game show for ITV1.

Prior to setting up Studio Lambert in 2008, Lambert was the chief creative officer of the RDF Media Group. He began his career at the BBC in 1983 where he worked for fifteen years in its Documentary Department. During this time, he produced and directed more than a dozen films for the award-winning series 40 Minutes and Inside Story and he founded the ground-breaking BBC2 documentary strand Modern Times. He was executive producer of several award-winning BBC documentary series including BAFTA-winning The Mayfair Set, The System and Premier Passions. He was also responsible for some of BBC1's first docu-soaps such as The Clampers and Lakesiders.

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Melanie Leach

Managing Director, Twofour Broadcast

Melanie Leach is the Managing Director of Twofour, one of the UK's largest regional indies. The company produces a wide range of popular factual,features and entertainment including Educating Essex (Channel 4), The Hotel Inspector (Five), New Look's Style the Nation (T4), My Funniest Year (Channel 4) and Harry's Arctic Heroes (BBC1).

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Richard Life

Head of acquisitions and Co-productions ITV Studios Global Entertainment

Richard Life is Head of Acquisitions & Co-productions at ITV STUDIOS Global Entertainment, the worldwide rights exploitation business. The company is an integrated part of ITV plc, which is one of the world’s leading television production, distribution and broadcast companies.

Richard spearheads the acquisition and co-production team for its UK and international business, where he and his team are responsible for sourcing, developing, managing and deficit funding content for international television distribution.

The Acquisitions and Co-productions division is one of Europe’s largest investors for independently produced television production.

Richard joined the company in October 2007 and previously worked for Channel 4 International as Head of Factual Co-productions and Head of Programming. Prior to this, Richard was a producer at Wall to Wall Television, September Films and News Editor of Broadcast magazine.

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Carlo Massarella

Executive producer and company director, Windfall Films

Carlo Massarella has devised and worked on a wide range of innovative and successful science, technology and history series for British, American and Canadian television channels including the BBC, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PBS, Channel 4 and Five.

He devised and series produced five seasons of the hit engineering show Monster Moves for Five & Discovery Channel (exploring the engineering challenges of relocating large structures, vehicles and machines), as well as spin-off series Heavy Haulers for TLC and Animal Mega Moves for National Geographic Wild and Five. He devised and series produced three series of the landmark CGI series Bigger, Bigger, Biggest for Five & National Geographic, charting the engineering innovations that enabled superstructures to evolve in size and scale.

He produced and directed three films in the multi-award winning, critically acclaimed PBS/Channel 4 series, 'DNA', marking the 50th Anniversary of the Double Helix in 2003, winning an ABSW Award and an EMMY for DNA : The Human Race – a definitive account of the human genome project with contributions from all the leading scientists involved and former US president Bill Clinton.

Most recently he was executive producer of Last Shuttle: Our Journey for Discovery & Science Channel charting the turbulent thirty year history of NASA’s Space Shuttle program.

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Morgan  Matthews

Founder, Minnow Films

BAFTA winning director Morgan Matthews has been making documentary films for over ten years, establishing a distinctive style.

He spent 5 years working at Century Films where his critically acclaimed films included Care House (2003), Rude Girls (2004) and Quitters (2005).

His two part series My Crazy Parents (2004) was nominated for an RTS award, and the feature length Taxidermy: Stuff the World (2005) was nominated for both the BAFTA and RTS awards for best single documentary as well as the Grierson award for most entertaining documentary. In 2005 Morgan joined Blast! Films where he directed four films for BBC2; Blue Suede Jew, Hair Wars, Million Dollar Pigeon (2007) and the feature length Beautiful Young Minds, which was nominated for a Bafta, RTS, Prix Europa and Grierson award. It was after leaving Blast! that Morgan set up Minnow Films.

At Minnow, Morgan’s first film was a one-hour documentary for Channel 4, the Grierson Award nominated Battleship Antarctica about a Greenpeace expedition to confront the Japanese whaling fleet. He then directed The Fallen, a three-hour film for BBC2, remembering every British serviceman and woman who has died whilst serving in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was named the best documentary of 2008 at the RTS Awards and won two BAFTAs including Best Factual Director.

Following The Fallen, Morgan went on to direct Scenes from a Teenage Killing, which chronicles every teenager who died as a result of violence in 2009 in the UK. It was premiered at Sheffield DocFest, where it won the audience award, and was broadcast by BBC in January.

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Elizabeth McIntyre

Vice President, Head of Production & Development, Factual Western Europe

Elizabeth McIntyre is Vice President, Head of Production & Development, Factual, Western Europe.  Elizabeth’s role is to commission and executive produce all factual programming across Discovery’s Western Europe markets including the UK.

Titles that Elizabeth has exec produced include series such as Unstoppable: The James Cracknell Trilogy; Britain’s Toughest Cops; Aircrash Confidential; How Do They Do It and X-Machines. One-off specials include Meet the Elephant Man; Norway Massacre: The Killers Mind and Walking The Amazon. Elizabeth is also responsible for identifying and developing new factual talent for Discovery.

Previously she was a producer/director for the BBC and independent production companies such as Brook Lapping and Leopard Films. Production credits included Missing, The Lost Children of Berlin, Five Steps To Tyranny. Elizabeth is a graduate from the University of Birmingham.

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Jane Millichip

Managing director, Zodiak Rights

Jane Millichip is Managing Director of Zodiak Rights London, the international rights exploitation and management division of the Zodiak Media Group, overseeing acquisitions, sales and international production. In 2005 Jane moved to New Zealand where she was Managing Director of the country’s largest production company, South Pacific Pictures. At South Pacific Jane also Executive Produced the factual and entertainment slate, including New Zealand Idol. Prior to New Zealand, Jane was the Senior Commissioning Editor for Living TV in the UK. Jane started her career as a journalist, and over eight years wrote about such diverse subjects as cars, scuba diving, football, and media. She was also Editor of Broadcast’s sister title TV World for four years.

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Leila Monks

Director, TVF International

Leila Monks is director of factual distribution company TVF International. She began her career working for the Trinity Mirror Group in the entertainment team of national newspaper titles The Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror and has experience across television, press, advertising and online.

Leila has worked at TVF for six years and in this time launched the co-production department, executive produced world wide hit documentary William and Kate: A Royal Love Story and is spear heading the advertiser-funded programming initiative. She is often featured in trade magazines C21, Broadcast and Televisual magazine and speaks on a number of panels both in the UK and internationally.

TVF International's boutique approach to documentary and factual distribution has earned them a place within the media landscape as the leading independent factual distributor in the UK. Their catalogue, containing close to 3000 hours of programming, encompasses everything from exceptional one-offs to long-running series, and represents some of the most innovative and creative producers from across the globe.

Leila has a B.Sc degree in Anthropology from University College London.

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Charlotte Moore

Commissioning Editor for Documentaries, BBC

Charlotte Moore is BBC Commissioning Editor for Documentaries, commissioning from both in-house and independent production companies across BBC One, Two, Three and Four. Her career began travelling to remote corners of the world to make films about cannibals, disappearing tribes and stolen art. As a producer/director, her credits include Lagos Airport(C4), Great Britons: Churchill (BBCTwo)and the RTS award winning series Living with Cancer (BBCOne). She then became head of documentaries at IWC Media, responsible for films such as the BBCTwo Emmy award winning Stephen Fry's Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, the BBC3 series Eighteen with a Bullet, C4's Help me Help My Child and for 3 years ran C4's new talent strand The Other Side. Four years ago, she came to work at the BBC as a Commissioning Executive for Documentaries under Richard Klein.



Taking up the post of commissioning editor for documentaries in 2009, she is now responsible for a broad range of documentary titles from this year's RTS award winning titles Famous Rich and Homeless and Wounded, to Jobless and When a Mother's Love is Not Enough, Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children, and The Autistic Me.

She commissions long-form observational documentary; constructed and presenter-led documentary, drama documentary and documentary singles and series.

Speaking at: MEET THE COMMISSIONERS: Opportunities in Documentary

Bryony Mortimer

Editorial policy advisor for Factual indies, BBC

Bryony Mortimer started her professional life in the theatre in South Africa, but moved from drama via drama-doc to documentary film within five years. Interested primarily in constructing narratives, she trained as a film editor. When she came to the UK in the late 1980s she worked in the BBC's television news department but left to work freelance as a documentary film-editor and producer. Ten years later she came back to the BBC to look after the editing and compliance of sensitive documentaries for re-transmission on the BBC's newly established commercial channels. From there she moved into Editorial Policy to help documentary film-makers interpret the BBC's Editorial Guidelines, working with them to find solutions to some of the trickier ethical issues at the heart of factual television in the 21st century.

Speaking at: DELIVERING THE CONTENT: Navigating through Compliance

Stuart Murphy

Director of Programmes, Sky1 HD, Sky1, 2 & 3

Stuart Murphy joined BSkyB as director of programmes for Sky 1 HD, Sky 1, 2 and 3 in 2009 from Twofour, where he was creative director. At Sky 1 he has overseen original programming, including An Idiot Abroad and Pineapple Dance Studios.

In February, 2011, he oversaw the launch of new channel, Sky Atlantic.

At Twofour, he was responsible for producing Are You Smarter than a Ten Year Old and Noel’s Christmas Presents for Sky 1, as well as establishing it comedy and drama division.

Before Twofour, Stuart was creative director at RDF and the first controller of BBC Three, where he commissioned shows such as Little Britain, Torchwood and Gavin and Stacey, as well as Little Angels and The House of Tiny Tearaways. While he was at BBC Three, the channel won more than 70 awards.

He came to BBC Three after working at ICG and UKTV, with stints as a producer for MTV and Channel 4’s Big Breakfast. He was made channel editor of UK Play at the age of 26 and joined the BBC in 2001 as controller of BBC Choice, which became BBC Three in 2003.

Speaking at: KEYNOTE: Stuart Murphy, Director of Programmes, Sky1 HD, Sky1, 2 & 3

Hamish Mykura

Head of documentaries, Channel 4

Hamish Mykura replaced Angus Macqueen as head of documentaries in 2008, seven years after he joined the broadcaster as commissioning editor, history. By 2004 he was head of history, religion and science programming which became specialist factual last year. Mykura’s commissions include the much talked about Diana: The Witnesses In the Tunnel, The Great Global Warming Swindle, Richard Dawkins’s Enemies of Reason, historical parenting series Bringing Up Baby and feature-length historical drama The Relief of Belsen. The Bafta award winning Nuremberg: Goering’s Last Stand and Bafta nominated 9/11: The Falling Man were both commissioned by Mykura. Before joining C4, Mykura was head of programmes at Blakeway, a series producer at Mentorn, and worked for 10 years at the BBC.

Speaking at: MEET THE COMMISSIONERS: Opportunities in Documentary

Saul Nassé

Controller, BBC Learning

Saul was appointed as controller, BBC Learning in January 2010, and spearheads the BBC's Learning activities across broadcast, online and face-to-face.

Saul has spent the last 20 years working for the BBC. Prior to joining BBC Learning, Saul was based in Mumbai where he was General Manager of BBC Worldwide Productions India (2007 to 2009), producing the Indian versions of Strictly Come Dancing and Baby Borrowers.

Before that Saul was Creative Head of the India & Pakistan season in 2007; Head of Development Specialist Factual in 2005/6; Head of Religion and Ethics in 2004/5; Executive Producer at the BBC World Service Trust 2002/3 and editor of Tomorrow's World from 1997 to 2001.


 

Saul is also portfolio head of the BBC's new Knowledge & Learning product,which will create learning journeys across the BBC's TV, radio and online content. Upcoming projects include the new series of Stargazing Live with Brian Cox, to get people hands-on with astronomy. It's a live TV show on BBC Two, bespoke web content and a series of Stargazing events across the UK.

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Andrew O'Connell

Head of factual, news and current affairs, Five

Andrew O‘Connell is Head of Factual at Five. Since joining the channel Andrew has been responsible for programmes including The Restaurant Inspector, White Van Men and Jack the Ripper. His output includes strands such as Extraordinary People, Revealed and Nature Shock. His recent commissions include Killer Drillers, Mexican Food Made Simple, Animal Architects and Croc Man.

Before joining Five Andrew worked at Sky from 2005 and commissioned the multi-award-winning Ross Kemp on Gangs.

Speaking at: MEET THE COMMISSIONERS: Specialist Factual

Sue Oriel

Managing director, Firecracker Films

Sue is managing director of the two-centre Firecracker Films and is based in the UK. Their other office is in Santa Monica which she visits whenever an excuse presents itself. Her previous roles have included head of commercial development at Channel 4, managing director of London and Glasgow based IWC Media and most latterly COO of RDF Television.

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David Pounds

CEO, Electric Sky

David Pounds is CEO of Electric Sky, which has established itself as a market leader within worldwide factual programme distribution. They were one of the first British companies to invest in HD, and now 3D content.

Electric Sky has close working relationships with a wide range of high-profile Broadcasters including the BBC, DCI, E! Networks, A&E, Arte, National Geographic, Channel Four, and FIVE. The company also represents a number of quality factual producers such as the BBC, October Films, True North, Brook Lapping, Fresh One, MAP TV, Peter Williams Television and Freeform.

Before launching Electric Sky in 1998, David was Managing Director of UK based TVF plc.

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Lina Prestwood

Director of content, Current TV

Lina is director of content at Current TV and has been a key member of the programming team since the channel's UK launch in 2007. Commissioning brand-defining and wave-making series and formats is high on her agenda, although there's always room for exceptional singles. Committed to championing a new generation of programme makers, the channel has developed a reputation as a launch pad for both on- and off-screen talent. Prior to joining Current, Lina worked primarily in factual development at Tiger Aspect, Diverse and Mentorn and was Associate Producer of Channel 4's Nazi Pop Twins. Recent commissions include What Did I Do Last Night?, a fact ent format looking at the psychology of young boozy Brits, Incest: the Last Taboo? and South Africa: Shoot to Kill.

Current TV is a sat cab channel available in over 70 million homes in the UK, USA, Italy and South Africa

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Sally Quick

Head of commercial partnerships, UKTV

Sally joined UKTV in August 2006 to head up its advertiser-funded content division by forging closer relationships between clients and content across its network of ten channels.

Key successes to date include Rhodes Across China with Amoy, which got the Good Food brand into 257 Asda stores nationwide; Mitch & Matt’s Big Fish with Young’s Seafood, three seasons of Red Bull X-Fighters and Carpool with Robert Llewellyn funded by Toyota, both for Dave.

Prior to UKTV, Sally worked in a variety of roles at ITV and Channel Four, where she worked on projects including the successful re-launch of the Orange Playlist and devising ITV At The Movies.

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Kate Quilton

Multiplatform commissioner, documentaries and specialist factual Channel 4

Kate Quilton is the multiplatform commissioner at Channel 4 for Documentaries and Specialist Factual. Starting out as a broadcast journalist, Kate worked at ITV and the BBC before heading to Channel 4. Kate’s first job at the channel was to launch C4 on YouTube, Bebo and MSN. A specialist in social media, in recent years Kate has worked chiefly on interactive reality formats, namely Big Brother and Seven Days.

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Elizabeth Rowlands

Head of editorial policy and compliance, British Sky Broadcasting

Elizabeth Rowlands started her TV career at ITV sales house TSMS in 1995 and was a ratings and break chart executive for three years at both TSMS and ITV sales house Laser. She moved onto Flextech Television and helped to set up the ratings team moving eventually over to a Compliance role at the broadcaster (channels included LivingTV, Bravo, Trouble and Challenge). As deputy head of Compliance and due to the Telewest and NTL mergers she worked on the increased number of broadcast channels and assisted running the Compliance team for over eight years. After finishing at Flextech, Elizabeth went on to be head of Compliance at UKTV for a short while during 2006-2007, before starting her current job as head of editorial policy and Compliance for Sky in July 2007.

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Tanya Shaw

Commissioning editor specialist factual, Channel 4

At Channel 4, Tanya has commissioned projects ranging from adventure series Alone in the Wild to the critically acclaimed Tsunami: Caught on Camera, as well as Four Rooms and forthcoming series The Food Hospital.

Before joining Channel 4 in January 2008, Tanya was Creative Director at Silver River, where she executive produced programmes including Bringing Up Baby, Millionaire’s Mission, Fat Man’s Warning and E4 School of Performing Arts. Earlier in her career, Tanya series produced the BAFTA Award-winning first series of The Apprentice as well as working on numerous other hit shows and documentaries including Ian Hislop’s History of the NHS, The Flora Keays Story, Lad’s Army and Pop Idol.

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John Smithson

Creative director, Arrow Media

John Smithson has a multi-award winning track record across film and television and has overseen the evolution of DSP, which he co-founded in 1989, into one of the biggest and most admired in global non-fiction TV. He originated and produced Danny Boyle’s Oscar nominated 127 Hours and produced Touching The Void which won the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film and 14 other awards, becoming the most successful British feature documentary in UK and US box office history. In television, he has worked as an executive producer on more than 100 hours of DSP’s output ranging from scripted films such as The Diary of Anne Frank and U Be Dead to feature-length documentaries including The Beckoning Silence and Thriller in Manila.

Chairing: MEET THE COMMISSIONERS: Specialist Factual

Celia Taylor

Head of Factual and Features, Sky 1HD

Celia Taylor is head of Factual and Features, Sky 1 HD. She joined the channel in May 2009 as Commissioning Editor and has since been responsible for a range of programmes, including, most notably, the breakout TV hit of 2009, Pineapple Dance Studios which made a household name of the inimitable Louie Spence, An Idiot Abroad and the BAFTA award winning Flying Monsters 3D with Sir David Attenborough. Her current projects include the follow Obese: A Year To Save My Life, Inside Gatwick and returning series of An Idiot Abroad and Ross Kemp, plus a number of series for Sky Living HD and Sky Atlantic HD.

Prior to joining Sky, Taylor was Director of Programmes at Virgin Media having joined the company as Channel Controller for Trouble, Challenge and Bravo. She started her career in television on Alas Smith and Jones, before working as a producer on a variety of documentaries. In 2000, Taylor was appointed Commissioning Editor, Factual for BBC1 and BBC2 and shortly thereafter her role was expanded to over-see BBC3's factual output where she was responsible for a variety of award-winning documentaries and breakout hits including Spendaholics.

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Jan Tomalin

Broadcast Legal & Compliance specialist, Media Law Consultancy Ltd.

Jan Tomalin is the Managing Director of Media Law Consultancy, a law firm specialising in expert advice to media companies. Jan, a solicitor with over 22 years experience, advises independent production companies, broadcasters, distributors, filmmakers, writers and new media organisations on media law, compliance and editorial policy issues concerning the making and broadcast of programmes and content on all platforms. Prior to setting up her own law firm in May 2009 Jan was the Controller of Legal & Compliance at Channel 4 Television.

Jan has unrivalled experience in media law and regulation and is highly regarded as an enabling and pragmatic broadcast lawyer who is skilled at achieving her clients’ creative objectives whilst advising on their best protection against legal and compliance risks. During her 20 year career at Channel 4, Jan Tomalin was instrumental in the broadcast and defence of ground breaking series such as Dispatches, Cutting Edge, the Banned Season and Brass Eye and fought many landmark freedom of expression cases. Jan is a regular commentator on media law, regulation and editorial best practice.

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Steve Warr

Co-owner/ director, Raw Cut Television

Steve Warr is an award-winning producer and co-owner/director of Raw Cut Television, which specialises in observational documentaries for broadcasters such as Discovery. Raw Cut is best known for Road Wars on Sky and Police Interceptors on Five.

After a successful career as a Fleet Street journalist Steve moved into television. He joined Central TV’s Cook Report, where he was the investigative programme’s youngest producer and made some of its most popular programmes. After six years he moved into the independent sector, creating the docu-soap X-Cars for BBC1 and the BAFTA-nominated current affairs show Is This Your Life for Channel 4. As Series Producer and Director Steve was also responsible for the long running ITV hit Police, Camera, Action.

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Rachel Wexler

Producer, Bungalow Town Productions

Rachel runs Bungalow Town Productions in the UK with her partner director/producer Jez Lewis. She specialises in producing international feature documentaries for a worldwide audience. She has produced films from many award winning film-makers including: Geoffrey Smith (The English Surgeon), Marc Isaacs (All White in Barking, Men of the City, Philip and His Seven Wives), Jez Lewis (Shed Your Tears and Walk Away) Julie Moggan (Guilty Pleasures), Oliver Hodge (Garbage Warrior) and Robin Hessman (My Perestroika). She has financed these films with support from broadcasters and funders around the world including: ITVS, BBC Storyville, Sundance Institute, PBS, Ford Foundation, More4 True Stories, Sundance Channel, DRTV, YLE, NRK and the UK Film Council. Films that Rachel has produced have been screened at many of the worlds leading festivals including Sundance, Edinburgh, London, Karlovy Vary, Hotdocs, Silverdocs, IDFA, Sheffield Docfest and Vancouver.

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Jes Wilkins

Head of Programmes, Firecracker Films.

Over the last ten years Jes has been the executive producer behind some of the most talked about and highest rating documentaries in Britain and around the world including Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, Daredevils, Babies Behind Bars and The Autistic Me. He joined Firecracker in 2008 as Head of Programmes and is the senior creative head in the London office working across both development and production.



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Mark Wood

Founding Partner, Krempelwood

Mark Wood is co-founder of Krempelwood, which acts as sales agents for TV producers seeking advertiser funding. The business started in September 2008 and has worked for companies such as Endemol Sport, Shed, Sony Pictures, Blink, Leopard, Zig Zag, Windfall, Zodiak, Viacom, and UKTV. Mark has experience in broadcast sponsorship, regulation, interactive advertising, product placement, and advertiser-funding.

He was head of brands at Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment until September, 2008.

Mark spent 13 years as commercial director and head of sponsorship for Sky TV. Mark’s ‘firsts’ include first sponsored programme, first advertiser-funded programme, first sponsorship to win IPA Effectiveness Awards, first qualitative research into programme sponsorship.

He successfully lobbied for change in UK sponsorship regulation and played a key role in the launch of Thinkbox, the industry body promoting television advertising.

Prior to Sky, Mark ran his own consultancy which was hired by Channel 4 and BBC Enterprises to handle sponsorship sales, and before that worked in ad sales at The Sun and British Satellite Broadcasting, having started out as a graduate-trainee media buyer at Benton and Bowles (despite not being a graduate…)

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Brian Woods

Filmmaker and co-founder, True Vision

Brian Woods is one of the UK's leading documentary film-makers. His company's films have been BAFTA nominated 14 times, and he personally has won 4. True Vision's first film, The Dying Rooms, set the standard that has been followed ever since with sensitive but campaigning documentaries such as Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children, The Lost Girls of South Africa and Slumdog Children of Mumbai. Brian is also a trustee of several charities that have been set up following True Vision films. Last year, the True Vision Foundation was established to act as an umbrella charity to help viewers wanted to become involved in the issues raised by True Vision films.

Chairing: MEET THE COMMISSIONERS: Opportunities in Documentary

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