About me: A freelance Line Producer/Snr Production Manager with over 20 years experience working on a wide variety of programmes:- including factual, entertainment, archive, magazine, studio, documentary, feature doc and observational.
I’m used to managing productions from development through to delivery and have extensive experience preparing budgets, schedules and cashflows. Have worked on productions of all sizes.
Companies have worked for include:- Transistor Films, Atlantic, Wild Blue Media, Raw TV, Blink Films, Pioneer Productions, Darlow Smithson, Lion Television, ITV
22 years experience.
Genre: Childrens, Corporate, Documentary, Drama Documentary, Factual Entertainment, Magazine Programmes, Multi camera Studio, Observational Documentary, Outside Broadcasts, Reality
Additional skills: 4K, Archive, Health And Safety
Other skills: Broadcasters worked for include:- BBC, C4, ITV, Discovery, National Geographic, Nova, PBS, Smithsonian, HGTV, Netflix, Sky, ABC. Experience of working on Canadian Co-Productions
Extensive foreign filming experience. Health and safety training. Word, Excel, PMI
Overseas experience in: Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Korea (south), Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States of America, Zambia.
At the moment I'm working at: Passion Planet
Willing to be based in: London / South East
Languages: basic spanish
Credits
I AM A KILLER S5&6
Production company: Transistor Films ; On-screen credit: Line Producer; Programme type: Documentary; Broadcaster: Netflix.
Series 12 x 1 hours Shot on location in the US, each episode focuses on an inmate currently on death row or serving a life sentence.
CATCH US IF YOU CAN (w/t Casey White)
Production company: Transistor Films ; On-screen credit: Line Producer ; Programme type: Documentary; Broadcaster: ABC 20/20.
1 x 2 hours. This ABC special tells the story of corrections officer, Vicky White who helped an inmate, Casey White, escape from prison. The pair went on the run for 11 days. Filmed on location in the US.
PANDA CALL OF THE WILD
Production company: Passion Planet; On-screen credit: TBC; Programme type: Documentary; Broadcaster: CCTV/C5.
Post Production, Feature Doc. 1 x 90 minute . A dramatized story of a young female panda, and her journey from a birth in captivity to the freedom of a life in the wild.
I AM A KILLER S3&4
Production company: Transistor Films; On-screen credit: PRODUCTION MANAGER; Programme type: Documentary; Broadcaster: Netflix .
Season 3 and Season 4 - 2 x 6 part True Crime Series shot on location in the US. Focuses on an inmates currently on death row or serving a life sentence.
HAWKING: CAN YOU HEAR ME
Production company: Atlantic Productions; On-screen credit: PRODUCTION MANAGER ; Programme type: Documentary; Broadcaster: Sky Documentaries.
1 x 90 mins, Feature doc about the life of Stephen Hawking.
ANCIENT CHINA FROM ABOVE
Production company: Wild Blue Media; On-screen credit: Line Producer ; Programme type: Documentary; Broadcaster: National Geographic and CICC.
3 x 1 hours shot on location in China. Presenter led series about Ancient China using new technology.
GOLD RUSH SEASON 09
Production company: Raw TV; On-screen credit: Production Manager; Programme type: Reality; Broadcaster: Discovery US .
25 Episodes (26.5 hours). Filming for 6 months on location in Yukon Canada, simultaneous editing in the UK over 10 months
RAISED HUMAN S2
Production company: Blink Films; On-screen credit: Production Manager; Programme type: Documentary; Broadcaster: Animal Planet, Channel 4, Sky Vision .
3 x 1 hours. Location filming in US, Canada, Indonesia, plus drama recon and archive.
VOLATILE EARTH
Production company: Blink Films (French Co-Pro); On-screen credit: Production Manager; Programme type: Documentary; Broadcaster: Nova, Channel 4, International Distribution.
Science series about 3 historic mega-disasters - Volcanoes, Floods and Hurricanes. Location filming in US, UK, Caribbean, Iceland, Indonesia. CGI and archive.
ANCIENT MYSTERIES/SECRETS
Production company: Blink Films; On-screen credit: Production Manager; Programme type: Documentary; Broadcaster: Smithsonian, Channel 5, BBCWW, SBS, France 5.
6 x 1 hours Historical series, with drama reconstruction, archive and CGI. Location filming in Egypt, Israel, Greece, Spain, Italy.
RAISED HUMAN S1
Production company: Blink Films; On-screen credit: Production Manager; Programme type: Documentary; Broadcaster: Animal Planet / Sky .
3 x 1 hours Personal stories about wild animals raised by humans. Filmed in US, Turks and Caicos, and Kenya. Also with drama recon and archive.
THE TROJAN HORSE MYSTERY
Production company: Blink Films; On-screen credit: Line Producer; Programme type: Documentary; Broadcaster: WNET/Thirteen, Channel 4, France 5, SBS.
1 x 1 hour. Documentary looking at new evidence which suggests the Trojan War did happen and explores the real possibility that a Trojan Horse could have been used to take Troy. Location filming in Turkey, archive, CGI and drama reconstruction.
TREASURES DECODED S2
Production company: Blink Films; On-screen credit: Line Producer; Programme type: Documentary; Broadcaster: Shaw Television, Smithsonian, Channel 4, BBC WW, France 5, SBS.
6 x 1 hours. Canadian Co-production for Multi-broadcasters. Factual series, with dramatic reconstruction, archive and CGI. New forensic science is used to unlock the secrets of six of the world’s greatest treasures. Locations filmed in include Egypt, Israel and Easter Island.
WORLD'S TOP 5
Production company: Blink Films; On-screen credit: Production Manager; Programme type: Documentary; Broadcaster: Discovery.
10 x 60 mins. World's Top 5 travels the globe to find the best of engineering in the biggest, fastest, strongest, longest and tallest machines. Shot in over 50 locations worldwide.
EXTREME HOMES
Production company: Pioneer Productions; On-screen credit: Production Manager; Programme type: Documentary; Broadcaster: HGTV.
26 x 1 hours. Extreme Homes is an international, architectural series that features some of the most fabulous, exciting and extreme homes on the planet. Very fast turnaround series with crews shooting simultaneously around the world.
CHOP SHOP - SERIES 2
Production company: Raw Television; On-screen credit: Production Manager; Programme type: Documentary, Reality; Broadcaster: Discovery Europe.
10 x 1 hours: Set in a working garage in east London and featuring car designer Leepu Awlia and garage boss Bernie Fineman and their team of welders, panel beaters and mechanics. The Chop Shop team are commissioned by 5 different celebrities to design and make their dream cars. Can the team pull off this extraordinary challenge?
PETE`S PA
Production company: World of Wonder; Programme type: Reality; Broadcaster: Living TV.
10 x 1 hrs. Controversial 80’s pop singer Pete Burns is on the hunt for a PA. Ten candidates compete to prove to Pete and his panel of experts they have got the patience, humour and fashion sense to take on the job – but there can only be one winner. Fast paced series, shot on location in London.
SECONDS FROM DISASTER
Darlow Smithson Productions - National Geographic - 13 x 60 mins Series 3 of one of Nat Geos most popular shows. Famous disasters are re-examined using a mix of interviews with survivors, dramatic recon, archive and CGI. Shot on location on HD.
HISTORY OF ITV
LWT/Granada Media - ITV - 5 x 1 hours. Series to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ITV. Presented by Melvyn Bragg.
GOLD: HISTORY OF AN OBSESSION
Agenda/Tinopolis - S4C/RTE 3 x 1 hours A historical documentary series examining man’s obsession with Gold. Shot in South Africa, Italy, Spain, France, Peru, Turkey, USA and Mali.
HIV/AIDS ALLIANCE 10TH ANNIVERSARY VIDEO
Lion Television – 1 x 20 mins and 1 x 5 mins A short film to highlight the work of the Charity in developing countries over the past 10 years. Shot in Senegal, Zambia, Ukraine and Cambodia.
E-LIFE
Lion TV - FBC/CNBC - 13 x 30 mins A series looking at new developments in internet technologies that can affect the way we live. Shot in the UK and Europe.
SO SOLID CREW
Lion Teleivion - Channel 4 1 x 50 min The truth behind the hype. The story of the UKs largest and most controversial garage band - told in the Crews own words.
HIDDEN LOVE - SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY
Agenda Productions - Channel 4 - 1 x 50 min Set in Berlin during the cold war this film tells the story of Romeo spies from the east who obtained secrets by seducing women working for western government. Shot in Germany.
TONY BENN-FREE AT LAST
Lion TV - BBC Four - 1 x 60 min Filmed in front of a live audience - the programme has some of the highlights from one night of Tony Benns 2002 UK tour.
LAHORE LAW
Agenda Productions - Channel 4 - 3 x 50 mins An observational series set in the law courts of Lahore. With such extraordinary access we gain an insight into Pakistans justice system and the lives of ordinary people. Shot in Pakistan.
SHOOT OUT
Agenda Productions - Channel 4 - 1 x 50 min One night in 1994 a young French couple with no history of crime went on a shooting spree in Paris that left five people dead. The film examines the couples lives and the events leading up the killings. Shot in France.
SECRET HISTORY - ORPHANS OF THE AIRLIFT
Agenda Productions - Channel 4 - 1 x 50 min The story behind the Daily Mails campaign to rescue Vietnamese orphans during the fall of Saigon in 1974. Shot in England and Vietnam.
DRIVEN (SERIES 1)
Ideal World/Darlow Smithson - Channel 4 - 8 x 30 mins A fast paced, weekly magazine programme with news and reviews of all the very latest motor cars. Shot in the UK and Europe.
WHOS APING WHO
National Geographic - 3 x 50 mins A series which examines the amazing similarities in social behaviour between humans and apes. Shot in UK, Europe, US and Uganda.
ROALD DAHLS REVOLTING RECIPES
Kudos Productions - BBC1 - 13 x 15 mins A studio based childrens cookery series based on the popular book and presented by Gary Rhodes.
DESPERATELY SEEKING SOMETHING (SERIES 3)
Kudos Productions - Channel 4 - 6 x 30 mins The search for alternative belief systems and lifestyles travels to Australia, the US and Iceland. Presented by Pete McCarthy.
MIAMI SPICE
Kudos Productions - Channel 4 - 1 x 30 min Andi Peters interviews the Spice Girls in Miami as they embark on their US tour.
SCREAMING REELS (SERIES 4)
Kudos Productions - Channel 4 - 6 x 30 mins The popular fishing series presented by Nick Fisher goes to the US, Bahamas and New Zealand.
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