CURRICULUM VITAE

·      Multi-award winning series producer, writer and director of specialist factual programmes

·      Creative leader with 20 yrs experience delivering projects for domestic and international market.

·      Skilled in long-form features and short formats.  Passionate about stories and story-telling.

·      Extensive experience with CGI, presenters, underwater and extreme environments

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2022-2023: SHOWRUNNER: SPACETIME CAPSULE (3x60)

Beach House Pictures for CRS China & Abacus Media Distribution – Exec: Rob Sixsmith

Show-running this major international collaboration, with unique access to Chinese science and space technology. Managing multiple remote production teams, VFX companies and edits in the UK, China and Singapore.

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2021-2022: SERIES DIRECTOR: SEVEN DAYS ON MARS (1x90)

Arrow International Media for BBC TWO + Fremantle Media – Commissioner: Jack Bootle/Tom Coveney

Shot in 7 days, cut in 7 weeks, this acclaimed 90-minute film follows Brian Cox into NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and onto the surface of Mars through the eyes and instruments of the Perseverance Rover.  A job involving sensitive access negotiations, a time-pressured shoot, a high-profile presenter and managing multiple edits to simultaneously deliver domestic and international versions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018cd1

‘The kind of programme that has you open-mouthed at the staggering feats of humanity on display.’ The Guardian

Winner: Outstanding Science and Technology, Realscreen Awards 2023

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2020-2021: PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: KILLERS OF THE COSMOS (6x30)

Wall to Wall for the Science Channel+ Bilibili  - Exec: Tim Lambert, Commissioner: Wyatt Channel

A Raymond Chandler-style gumshoe, played by Aidan Gillen, tracks down the most lethal phenomena in the Cosmos.  A combination of comic-book drama and premium documentary.  

https://vimeo.com/639055720/66d82bc076

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2018-2019: WRITER/DIRECTOR: EINSTEIN AND HAWKING: UNLOCKING THE UNIVERSE (1x90)

BBC Studios for Science Channel  - Exec: Steve Crabtree, Commissioner: Wyatt Channel

Emmy nominated feature doc about Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and how their mind-bending theories of relativity and black holes revolutionised our understanding of the Universe.

https://vimeo.com/321819876

Emmy Nominated: 2019 News and Documentary Awards

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2018 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: HORIZON: AVALANCHE (1x60)

Caravan Production for BBC TWO – Exec: Dinah Lord, Commissioner: Diene Petterle

In an effort to learn about avalanches, the world’s best snow scientists assemble in the Canadian Rockies to rig a mountain with cameras and instruments before setting off a huge avalanche down its slopes.

https://dailymotion.com/video/x6vxhzj

‘The Jason Bourne of science docs’ - The Sunday Times

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2017-2018:SERIES EDITOR: NEANDERTHALS: MEET YOUR ANCESTORS (2x60)

VIXPIX FOR BBC TWO + PBS – Commissioner: Diene Petterle

Anthropologist Ella al-Shamahi enlists the motion capture skills of Andy Serkis to bring our Neanderthal ancestors back to life.   Combining experimental archaeology, forensic pathology and pioneering VFX to bring the Neanderthals back to life.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3ljc3

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2015-2017 & 2019: SERIES PRODUCER: THE SKY AT NIGHT (30x30)

BBC Studios for BBC FOUR   Commissioner: Cassian Harrison
Running the team that delivered the world’s longest-running science programme.  Including high-profile (and award winning) fast-turnaround specials behind the scenes of the Rosetta, New Horizons and Juno  missions to the planets.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk7h

 Rosetta Special: Winner: Best General TV Programme, European Science TV Awards

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2006-2015:  PRODUCER/DIRECTOR BBC SCIENCE & HISTORY: 

SELECTED CREDITS:

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HUMAN UNIVERSE: A PLACE IN SPACE AND TIME (1x60 BBC TWO)

Including the viral bowling ball and feather demonstration in the world’s largest vacuum chamber – one of the most watched science sequences in history.        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs

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WONDERS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM: ORDER OUT OF CHAOS & ALIENS (2x60 BBC TWO + The Science Channel)

Lead director on the multi-award-winning series that brought Brian Cox into the mainstream.  Developed the much copied visual style - combining cinematic visuals with blue-chip CGI to reveal the varied other worlds of the Solar System and their relationship to the Earth.

ORDER OUT OF CHAOS: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p006t1ks

ALIENS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHWsJgarMtA          

            Winner: 2 RTS Awards; Peabody Award; 2 Bulldog Awards; Broadcasting Press Guild Award; Banff World Media Festival Award; European Science TV and New Media Award

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WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE: STARDUST (1x60 BBC TWO + The Science Channel)

BAFTA nominated episode in which Brian Cox reveals our origins in the heart of distant stars via a Hindu funeral and the demolition of a Brazilian prison.                                    

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fk7yv

 ‘Clear enough for an 8 year old to understand, but clever too.’ Radio Times

            BAFTA Nominated: TV Awards 2012 - Specialist Factual

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WONDERS OF LIFE: EXPANDING UNIVERSE (1 x 60 BBC TWO + The Science Channel)

Award-wining episode combining blue-chip natural history with an epic evolutionary story. Travelling across the United States, Brian Cox plunges into the wilderness to find the animals he needs to explain the evolution of the senses.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p014cryw

Winner: Banff World Media Awards, Best Science and Technology,

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COSMONAUTS: HOW RUSSIA WON THE SPACE RACE (1x90 BBC FOUR)

Feature-length documentary charting the rise and fall of the mighty Soviet space programme and its role in the Cold War.  Combining unseen archive with remarkable and candid interviews with the surviving cosmonauts who charted an amazing chapter in history.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lcxms

‘This is extraordinary’ The Guardian

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IN SEARCH OF SCIENCE: FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTERS (1x60, BBC TWO)

In this history of British Science, Brian Cox explores the darker side of science and why the public often mistrust its practitioners.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01gl2gb

‘A fascinating hour of educational and inspiring TV’- TV Times

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PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: TO BOLDLY GO: UP & DOWN (2x60, BBC TWO)

Dr Kevin Fong traces the extraordinary journey that took humans from the deepest depths of the ocean to the edge of space and beyond.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00mzc7y

‘Engrossing, informative and cinematic.

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THE CODE: SHAPES (1x60,  BBC TWO)

Prof Marcus du Sautoy reveals the mathematical principals that underpin the structure of the natural world – from bubbles to beehives.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jgd9w                

‘All factual programmes should be made with the same skill and knowledge and so much unobtrusive graft’ The Times

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HORIZON (1x60, BBC TWO):

SHOULD I EAT MEAT: HOW TO SAVE THE PLANET Michael Mosley on the trouble with cows.

JIMMY’S GM FOOD FIGHT:  Jimmy Doherty investigates whether the world needs GM crops.                                                                                               ‘A model documentary’ Andrew Billen, The Times 

HOW MUCH IS YOUR DEAD BODY WORTH?  The grisly black market trade in human body parts.

 THE GREAT ROBOT RACE The race to build a car that can drive itself across 130 miles of desert. 

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2001-2006: PRODUCER/DIRECTOR BBC INTERACTIVE

Creating award-winning interactive experiences across red button TV and the web.

WALKING WITH BEASTS INTERACTIVE.                                                                                                                                                                               BAFTA Winner;  EMMA - Electronic Multimedia Award

CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW INTERACTIVE. BAFTA Nominated

DIGITAL PICTURE OF BRITAIN VIEWERS GALLERY: RTS Nominated

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EDUCATION 

MSc Science Communication - Imperial College, London.   

MA Hons Natural Sciences - University of Cambridge. 

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SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Self Shooter – Canon C300, Sony FS7, FS5, A7s

Multi-Camera Director

EU passport

US O Visa

BSAC Qualified Diver

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REFERENCES

Rob Sixsmith, Executive Producer, Beach House Pictures (Rob@beachhousepictures.com)

Ash Potterton,  Executive Producer, Arrow Media (ash.potterton@arrowmedia.com)

Diene Petterle, Creative Director, Drumroll Films – former BBC Commissioner (dienepetterle@gmail.com)

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