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Anthony, Ben  person Ben Anthony has self-shot observational films on a diverse range of subjects from Al Jazeera during wartime to The Women's Institute.  Al Jazeera: Exclusive, which was broadcast on BBC2 and American PBS in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in 2003, won the Cine Golden Eagle Award.
Antonio, Carlisle  person
Aponte, Miguel  person
Appignanesi, Josh  person
Appio, Helena  person
Apted, Michael  person The man most famous for the 7 Up series has had a varied career in television and film. After studying law and history at Cambridge, Apted worked as a researcher for Grananda television, where he worked on a groundbreaking documentary in the World in Action series called '7 Up'. Taking as its premise the Jesuit saying 'bring me a child until the age of seven and I will give you the man', the documentary follows a group of seven-year old children from varying backgrounds, asking them about their lives, their thoughts and their hopes and dreams for the future.

Apted then secured a follow up seven years later, this time as director, and thus began a series which has continued every seven years to the present day. He has a strong track record in television drama and feature films, including Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorilla's in the Mist, and the James Bond film The World is not Enough. It's for these landmark documentaries, however, that he is most well-known in Britain.
Ardizzone, Simon  person
Armitage, Simon  person
Armstrong, Franny  person Starting her adult life as a rock drummer, Franny Armstrong was diverted from that path by the news that one of the world's largest corporations was suing a postman and a gardener for libel. She began to make the film that would become McLibel, little knowing that it would take ten years to complete. during which time she would be financing and producing it completely independently. The film has now screened on BBC television, as well as on terrestrial stations all over the world, yet its success before that is down to guerilla-style distribution via the web, community screenings and festivals.

She has also made 'Drowned Out', about the fight against the Narmada Dam in India, also independently funded and distributed.
Armstrong, Peter  person
Arnall, Dick   person
Arora, Krishan  person
Ashby , Bernard   person
Ashraf, Jemshaid   person
Ashtakov, Sergei  person
Ashton, Laura  person
Ashworth, Robert  person
Aspinall, David   person
Aspinwall, Charlie   person
Asquith, Daisy  person Daisy Asquith started in documentary as a receptionist for Windfall Films when she was 19. She was thrown in at the deep-end when she was sent to film with a 9 year old autistic boy who was about to be adopted. The resulting material became one of 5 films in 'The Decision' - an award-winning series about children and social services produced by Oliver Morse.

Daisy then went on to conceive '15' with 'Decision' co-survivor Nichola Koratjitis, a groundbreaking and BAFTA-nominated 3 part series about teenagers in South London.

She spent two years gaining near impossible access to British Asian arranged marriages for 'Marrying a Stranger', two projects which she filmed, produced and directed solo, travelling to Pakistan 3 times.

Daisy works best alone with a small camera; her films thrive on many hours, weeks and months spent getting inside her contributors' heads.