DFG Tutors in Training on DFGDocs – The British Documentary Website

DFG Tutors

Simon Aeppli

Simon is an editor and filmmaker with a background in Artist's Film and Video. He is a lecturer at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, and has also been a media educator in London at the Institute of Education ARCO PLUS, WAC performing Arts and Media College, The Place, and New Vic College. He has also worked as a speaker with the British Council and the East London Moving Image Initiative, London.

His recent filmography includes: The Truth Truck, Five, DFG Films 2006; The Grand Prix Priest, ITV London, DFG Films 2005; Star Radio, Artist in residence Cardiff, Wales 2005; Eden 2003/04, Artist Film and Video Development & Completion Award 2004, Film London; Terra Firma 2002 in collaboration with choreographer Nic Sandiland, Arts Council of England Capture2 Commission.

Bob Bentley

Bob Bentley works in documentaries, arts, history, science and drama. Recently he produced/directed two programmes in the BBC2 series British Film Forever. Before that he wrote/directed/produced two Battlefield Detectives for The US History Channel, two programmes in the BBC series Private Life of a Masterpiece and two drama/docs for the BBC and Bravo. At the Millennium he directed nine drama/doc inserts for Art Crime 2020 - A History of the Future for CNN.

Other notable productions include a Bard on the Box with Adrian Noble of the RSC an Omnibus on opera legend Jessye Norman and a profile of singer Dame Janet Baker. For the Sake of the Children was about photography of children for the C4’s series Films of Fire. Science documentaries include Blind Visions, about sight loss.

He has also made a number of contemporary dance films including Never Again with DV8 Physical Theatre for C4. Beethoven in Love with Divas Dance Co and To A Woman’s Heart with Dutch choreographer Karin Post were for the BBC.

Available Light is a BBC drama starring Tom Bell, Joely Richardson and David Morrissey. Recluse was a half-hour cinema film starring Maurice Denham, which won the BAFTA Best Short Film award.

Christina Burnett

Christina Burnett is one of Europe's leading film and TV trainers, specialising in proposal development/ pitching and career strategy/business skills. Working closely with commissioning editors, she has trained industry professionals in 15 countries - from Sweden to South Africa - for organisations including Channel 4, Scottish Television, PACT/ITF, most of the UK Screen Agencies, the European Documentary Network, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI), the Television Business School, the Council of Europe and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), as well as leading UK production companies. Christina is the pitch trainer for the MeetMarket at Sheffield Doc/Fest, and for four years she ran the pitch workshop at the Amsterdam FORUM for International Co-Financing of Documentaries, the world’s largest gathering of commissioning editors and documentary producers. She has also delivered pitching events at the Celtic Film and Television Festival, the Danish Television and Journalism Festivals and - with DFG - the Open Frame Festival in New Delhi and INPUT (the world public television screenings) in Johannesburg.

Sabine Bubeck-Paaz

Sabine is editor-in-chief of ZDF/ARTE documentary programme, Germany. Sabine studied German and French literature with linguistics in Tübingen, and worked as a freelance journalist for a number of German newspapers. In 1990 she started working as a commissioning editor at the ZDF youth and children's department in Mainz. When ARTE, the European Culture Channel, started up in 1991 she became a member of the ZDF department "Das kleine Fernsehspiel" that created programmes for ARTE. Since 2000, she has been responsible for the development and production of themed evenings in the "ARTE Theme evenings" department. Her thematic concepts have included a range of subjects from ‘Wolves’ to ‘Streetfashion’, ‘Digital Spirit’ to ‘Seduction’, ‘Fidelity’, ‘Pain’ and ‘Cancer’, ‘The art of healing’, ‘The skin’, ‘Brain’ and ‘Life with prison’.

Anton Califano

Originally trained as an editor, Anton has also produced and directed a number of short films that have been shown at over forty film festivals worldwide. Most recently he edited Channel 4 ‘s Three Minute Wonder: Britain Recut (2008) and Made In India series (2007). Anton is currently the Executive Producer on the Eastern Edge Film Fund encompassing three east London boroughs, co-funded by Film London supporting new and emerging filmmakers.

As a qualified teacher Anton has considerable experience teaching practical film-making, working with students and new entrants to the film industry in the UK and internationally. He has recently delivered workshops in Iran and Argentina, taught editing for DFG in London, at FilmFarm in Poland as well as teaching on the MA in Documentary Practice at Brunel University.

Lisa Cazzato-Vieyra

Lisa is a filmmaker and editor. She works as a producer camerawoman and editor for independent projects as well as for Native Voice Films and DFG. Lisa has worked with both video and film, producing acclaimed experimental and broadcast documentary films. Born in Lecce, Southern Italy, she came to London to study and work in photography. Lisa’s background is extensive in the fashion and commercial photography industry, assisting various established photographers. In 2003 she completed an MA in Fine Arts at St Martins College of Arts and her photographic work, supported by grants from the Arts Council and awards, has been shown in London galleries as well as internationally.

David Charap

Trained at a British Film School and in the editing rooms of the BBC, David established himself as a prolific film maker in the Czech Republic. He edited dozens of acclaimed projects ranging from full-length feature films like Buttoners to prestigious commercials for the UN. Returning to England, he established a London cutting room and edited projects for both US and UK producers including the award winning feature Last Resort and the documentary A Trial in Prague. His most recent credits include the drama Mrs. Mandela (BBC Four) and the documentaries Men and The City (2009) and the forthcoming feature In The Land of The Free (scheduled for UK cinema release in March 2010).

Selected editing credits include Men of the City (2009); All White in Barking (2008); Calais: The Last Border (2003) and Someday My Prince Will Come (2005) with director Marc Isaacs; My Summer of Love, the BAFTA winning film directed by Pawel Pawlikowski (2004); BAFTA award-winning The Train, director Donovan Wylie; The Year of the Devil, which was awarded the Czech Lion (a Czech Oscar) for Best Editing in a Cult Feature Film 2002, Last Resort, BBC 2000, Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski.

Phil Cox

Phil Cox is an award winning news director camerman based in London. He produced and directed his first films in Scotland whilst based at the Edinburgh Film and Video Centre, also completing an honours degree in languages and literature at the University of Edinburgh. With a primary interest in documentary he created Native Voice Films with his brother in 1998. He has worked both as a director and producer of broadcast and award winning international indie documentaries as well as working as a freelance news cameraman in war zones. He is fluent in Spanish and has lived and worked for a considerable period in Latin America. Over the last years he has filmed at length in Iraq, Sudan, Colombia and Pakistan for international broadcasters. In 2004 he was the first filmmaker to film the Darfur conflict traveling with the SLA rebels and was awarded the 2004 Rory Peck Award for this work. He is currently a director of the acclaimed Unreported World series for Channel 4.

Isabelle Fauchet Collier

Isabelle started her career in documentary distribution over 10 years ago, selling programmes to broadcasters and video and DVD distributors. She went on working in documentary development and financing for the Programme Media II of the European Community where she contributed to the selection of projects from 16 European countries to receive Media funding. More recently, she was Acquisitions and Co-production Manager at UK distribution company Electric Sky for over three years.

Throughout her career, Isabelle has met with hundreds of UK and international producers and filmmakers and is well aware of the pressures they experience. She is now a freelance documentary consultant specialising in development, finance raising and distribution.

Channels that Isabelle has developed working relationships with include: BBC2, BBC4, Channel 4, Five, Sky One, Granada, ARTE France, France 2, France 3, France 5, PBS, A&E, Discovery Europe, UK and US, National Geographic Channels, The Biography Channel US and UK, ABC Australia and SBS, AVRO, ZDF, ARD, DRTV, TV2 Denmark, YLE, Documania.

Marilyn Gaunt

As a freelance award-winning filmmaker Marilyn has made over fifty documentaries for most of the major ITV Broadcasters and the BBC. She has made films for strands such as True Stories, Cutting Edge, and First Tuesday for ITV, and Present Imperfect, Forty Minutes, Q.E.D. and Under The Sun for the BBC. Over the past five years she has also acted as Executive Producer for C4's Short Stories and for Carlton TV's Metroland series, and has tutored at the National Film and Television School.

Her rich body of work includes: Lin and Ralph: A Love Story; Living On The Edge: Real Life; Kelly and Her Sisters (2002 Grierson Awards: Best documentary on a Contemporary Issue, 2002 BAFTA Awards: Winner Flaherty Documentary, 2002 Royal Television Society Awards: Best Documentary, 2002 Broadcast Awards: Best Single Documentary).

Andy Glynne

A clinical psychologist, author, documentary filmmaker and producer, Andy is the founding director of our very own Documentary Filmmakers Group. He’s Managing Director of Mosaic Films, and Director of the One World Broadcasting Trust and is the author of the book, “Documentaries and How to Make Them”. As a consultant and Trainer for UK broadcasters and broadcasting organisations Andy has worked with ITV, Rory Peck Trust, BBC, Sheffield International Documentary Festival, Scottish Documentary Institute, Univeristy of London, University of Portsmouth, and University of the Arts. As a Producer and Director Andy's recent credits include:
Troubled Minds, Teachers TV/ Wellcome Trust (2008) RTS Winner 2009
Coma - Three Minute Wonder, Channel 4 (2008)
Britain Recut - Three Minute Wonder, Channel 4 (2007)
Independence In 3 Mins, Series of 8 x 3” documentaries by Indian filmmakers on the themes of Independence for Channel 4 (2006)
Five Bites, series of news features for FIVE News (2006)
Reel London 2005/2006, 6 x 23” documentaries for ITV London, including RTS nominated “Holloway Hairdo”
Big Screen Science, 1 x 45” Teachers TV
So You Thought Your Documentary could Change the World?, BBC4/Grierson Trust.

Hettie Hope

Hettie has worked in television for 17 years, working as a Line Producer and Production Manager since 1997. After 10 years at the BBC, where she worked in various production jobs in comedy and entertainment she went freelance in 2001 and has since largely worked on documentary and factual programmes. Most recently she has worked at Tiger Aspect on a range of factual programmes, including Howard Goodall’s 20th Century Greats (C4), The Monastery (BBC2) and The Retreat (BBC2). Her diverse experience encompasses a series as assistant floor manager on Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game to boom swinging in a mosque during Ramadan. She enjoys meeting the constant challenges of production, managing to keep her sense of humour as budgets and schedules get smaller and shorter. Her interests include photography, singing, country walks and sleep.

Marc Isaacs

Since 2001 Marc Isaacs has made more than 10 creative documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4. His films have won Grierson, Royal Television
Society and BAFTA awards as well as numerous international film festival prizes. In 2006 he had a retrospective at the prestigious Lussas
Documentary film festival in France and his work has been included in numerous documentary books and academic studies. The Times said of his latest film, Men of The City: "No one has ever made a film about the City that is so singular, so evocative and so human".

His first documentary film, Lift, has won numerous awards and Calais: The Last Border (2003) made for BBC2 was nominated for a Grierson Award and won first prize at two European documentary festivals. Other films include Philip and his Seven Wives and All White In Barking.

Ken Kirby

Ken started out working as a Film Editor for the BBC working on a range of documentaries and educational programming for the Open University. He has since produced, directed and filmed many documentaries for the BBC (which include programmes for the Panorama, Everyman and Timewatch strands) Channel 4, National Geographic and PBS.

His most recent credits as a Producer/Director/Cameraman include:
Sharia Court – Channel 4, 2008
Observational film looking at the work of a Sharia Court in Leyton, London.
Undersize Me – Channel 4, 1 X 60 mins TX Sep 2007
Robert Beckford tries to work and live the life of an African subsistence farmer exploring the impact of IMF and World Bank policies on the country, child labour in the cocoa farms and the impact of gold mining.
Dispatches - Women Only Jihad – Channel 4, 1 x 60 mins, 2006.
Documentary following a group of Muslim women’s quest for the right to pray in Britain’s mosques.

Colin Luke

Colin has been an independent producer since 1989. He has been responsible for six multi-part series for BBC and Channel 4, as well as producing and executive producing numerous other TV films in the areas of current affairs, social documentary and the arts. He has lectured on digital production throughout Europe, has served as deputy Vice Chairman of BAFTA and is currently on the board of the Directors and Producers Rights Society.

In recent years he has directed seven documentary series using the innovative Mosaic method for which his company is well known, including Russian Wonderland; United Kingdom!; Unholy Land; Adult Lives; Return to Wonderland; EUtopia. He has also produced Birth of a Salesman for Cutting Edge, Captain Pedro and the Three Wishes for C4’s Latino Nights, Think of England for BBC’s Modern Times.

His series for ITV The Tube has won three Royal Television Society awards and the ITV Silver award. Most recently he has directed a number of TV commercials.

Suzanne Lynch

Suzanne is an award-winning documentary director. Her most recent broadcast credits include Last Chance Kids, recently shortlisted for a Grierson Award, about a headteacher's mission to get every pupil in her school reading in just one school year; Truly Madly Deeply for Channel 4, described by the Times as “Compulsive and moving a fabulous film, filled with wonderful people” and which won the RADAR Award for the Best Portrayal of Disabled People in a Factual TV Programme.

The education, community & charity projects Suzanne has worked on include documentaries for The Media Trust for Macmillan Cancer Relief, BBC2 Learning Zone and CAFOD. She has also worked in features, with credits including The Full Monty and Mrs Brown.

Currently Suzanne has been working on Generation XXL which is due to TX on Channel 4 in October, and Extraordinary People, a one hour doc for Channel Five about British surgeons who work with children with facial deformities in Vietnam.

Vivian McGrath

As Managing Director, Viv quickly built a £3m turnover for RedBack films within a year of its founding and a reputation for critically acclaimed, high rating documentaries for UK and US broadcasters. Her most recent films were The American Imposter: three hours for US Network ABC with the world exclusive story, presented by Martin Bashir, of Christopher Buckingham, the ‘fake Earl’ who stole the identity of a dead baby. She has also just produced another hour long special for ABC, with the working title, The Man with his twin Inside.

Viv’s critically acclaimed editions of Channel 4’s BodyShock strand include Curse of the Mermaid Baby and The 80-year-old Children. The Boy Who Gave Birth to his Twin was the highest rating science film ever on C4 and the fourth most watched programme on the network that year. Other recent productions include Bobby Friction: Generation 7/7 for Channel 4, which has been shortlisted for a Children’s BAFTA and A Swinging Murder – also for Channel 4. Her work for Five includes films for Extraordinary People, the series, The Baby Mind-Reader and 50 Shocking Food Facts. For Sky One, she’s produced three series of Conspiracies, as well as series of Killing Mum and Dad and Surviving (Serial Killers). Viv’s US co-productions include My Shocking Story for Discovery and Five as well her editions of BodyShock for Discovery and Channel 4.

Viv’s prime time popular science programmes include the BBC One hit Twins: the Identity Test which has sold as a format to 16 countries around the world to date.

Roger Mills

Roger is a leading Documentary film producer, director, writer and narrator. He is also Managing Director of Belle Productions Limited and the recipient of four BAFTA Awards, two Royal Television Society Documentary Series Awards and is a Trustee of the Grierson Trust.
His credits as Producer/Director include:
Author of Mo and Me, a biopic on Mohamed Amin for Al Jazeera International, 2005.
Himalaya - with Michael Palin, BBC1, 2004.
Sahara – with Michael Palin, BBC1, 2002.
New Model Army, for C4, winner of ‘Race in the Media’ award Best Documentary Series, 2001.
The Clintons – a Marriage of Power, for C4, winner of ‘Indies Award’ for Best Documentary, 1999.
Full Circle with Michael Palin, BBC1, 1997.
Pole to Pole with Michael Palin, BBC1, 1991.
Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin, BBC1, 1990.
Originator and first producer of BBC2’s flagship documentary series ‘Forty Minutes’. 26 forty minute films per year for four years, 1980 - 1985.
Sailor, BBC1, 1975.

Barbara Orton

Barbara Orton has been an award winning Independent Producer since establishing True TV in 1997. Prior to setting up the company she worked as a freelance producer, researcher and film-maker. True TV is a ‘bespoke’ micro company based in Glasgow and networked internationally. Barbara’s first film was the BAFTA award winning In Cuba They’re Still Dancing made for BBC 1994.

She produced and Directed Channel 4’s Alexi Sayles Dancing Tips (4 x 3mins) and BBC’s The Spice Boys (30 mins). The latest project has been the major 2 part series for BBC 1 Sunday night prime time – Bruce Goes Dancing – with the inimitable Bruce Forsyth.

She has been part of various European training schemes and initiatives and is an active member of various European networks, regularly attending markets and festivals in Europe and Africa. Currently she is an active advocate for the economic viability of smaller micro companies via the global marketplace and their vital role they have in contributing to a creative, diverse UK industry. Barbara has an early background in Community-based Media Workshops and Arts projects, in Newcastle and Edinburgh, and went on to work as Local Arts Co-ordinator for Glasgow’s ground breaking ‘Year of Culture 1990’.

Belinda Parsons

Having studied for a degree in Fine Art, Belinda went to the National Film and Television School to train as a lighting camerawoman. With the advent of Channel Four, as a freelance Director of Photography she was able to work consistently in television, shooting feature documentaries, one-off dramas plus arts and social documentaries. With a broad experience in lighting specifically for film, Belinda has gone on to work in all digital camera formats from mini DV through to Digibeta and professional HD. Belinda has teaching experience on the National Short Course at the NFTVS, and is a visiting tutor at the London Film School and The London Metropolitan University.

Selected credits :
Imagine - You Are A Diva, BBC 2
Building The Ultimate, Granada TV
Leaving Home With Simon Rattle - BAFTA Award – Best Arts Programme, Channel 4
Hairy Women, Channel 5
Dispatches – Bras, Channel 4
Joan Of Arc, Channel 4
Thanks For The Mammaries, Sky TV 1
Locking Up Women, Yorkshire TV
Horizon - The Shadow Of Breast Cancer, BBC

Leena Pasanen

Leena Pasanen has studied Finnish language and literature at Oulu University. She started her career as a journalist in 1988 at the Finnish News Agency, first as a reporter and later on as a political commentator in the Parliament house. In 1993 she joined YLE, Finnish Broadcasting Company, where she worked as a reporter, political commentator, subeditor and TV presenter for the current affairs magazine programme on YLE TV1. After that she was the Head of Documentaries for YLE TV1 from 1999-2000.

When YLE launched new digital channels, she was chosen as Head of Programmes, responsible for cultural, factual and fiction programmes in YLE Teema, a channel focused on culture, science and education. Since 2004 she has also been the deputy director of the channel.

In November 2005 she started her work as the director of EDN (European Documentary Network). She’s been a regular expert, tutor and lecturer for several training programmes, for example EDN, Discovery Campus, EURODOC and Television Business School. She’s a EURODOC graduate from the year 1999, a member of the board of IDFA Forum, INPUT and the Bonnier’s Journalistic Award in Finland.

James Quinn

James Quinn joined October Films in 2007 as Head of Factual. Previously, he was a much sought-after freelance director and development producer, working successfully at a number of major UK production companies, including Diverse, Tiger Aspect, Mentorn and Lion.

James has made films across the factual spectrum - from current affairs to drama docs and feature-length polemics - all of which have been popular with audiences and critics alike. He specialises in observational documentaries, often on controversial and challenging subjects.

Since arriving at October, he has been responsible for a range of high-profile commissions and executive produced films for established strands including Cutting Edge and First Cut on Channel 4, and Extraordinary People on Five.

He also recently directed Shannon Matthews: The Family's Story and 18 Pregnant Schoolgirls for the BBC.

Marijke Rawie

Marijke is Managing Director of ExpertDocs, and for the last 17 years Head of Art Documentary at AVRO, the first public broadcaster in the Netherlands. In 1991 she founded the documentary slot “AVRO Close Up” which became one of the leading international co-producers and co-financers of documentaries in Europe.

She started her TV career in1974, working as director and producer of documentaries at various Dutch broadcasters (NOS, VARA, NCRV), before moving to AVRO. Marijke Rawie is involved in several international documentary institutions:

Vice President of EBU Documentary Expert Group
Vice President of Advisery Board Discovery Campus Masterschool
Boardmember of the 1st World Congress of Arts Producers
Doc.expert EDN
Doc. expert Eurodoc

She has also founded ExpertDocs, International Documentary Training & Consultancy, in which she combines the international documentary coproduction and pitching training knowledge she has acquired over the years.

Rosa Rogers

Rosa Rogers is an award winning documentary maker whose films have been shown around the world, and whose broadcast credits include work for BB1, BBC3, Al Jazeera and Channel 4. Her primary interest – opening up marginalized perspectives and experiences to a wide audience through accessible and compelling human stories – has taken her from Rio to Mumbai, Bamako to Beijing. Prize winning films include: The Greatest Show on Earth (C4, 2006), the story of a deaf dancer who performs in the Rio Carnival; Dragon People (C4, 2006), a photographer’s journey through modern China; and Back to Bombay (C4, 2005) in which a British Indian woman travels back to India to meet her family for the first time. She has twice been a finalist in the One World Media Awards.

Diana Ruston

Diana has been working as a sound recordist in the documentary industry for a number of years. She has worked on over 70 documentaries for both television as well as on independent productions.

During her career she has worked on films broadcast on the BBC, Carlton, Channel 4, Granada, and LWT amongst others. Diana has also been involved with international channels and organisations such as National Geographic, ZDF Germany, the National Film Board of Canada, and UNESCO.

She has worked on various genres of documentary for a range of prominent award-winning factual strands including Panorama, Cutting Edge, Dispatches, Real Lives, Fragile Earth, Tomorrow's World, and the Southbank Show.

Steven Seidenberg

Steven has extensive experience in both teaching and programme-making. As Head of Development at Café Productions he helped bring more than 100 documentary projects to fruition. Both at Café Productions and since leaving the company he has produced numerous documentary projects. He has worked internationally with UK and foreign broadcasters, pitching to and producing for commissioning editors at more than 50 broadcasters. His work as a Moderator at such events as the Amsterdam Forum, with the EDN, the European Documentary Network, and the Discovery Campus gives him unparalleled insight into how the international market in co-productions works.

Steven has also lectured at the National Film and Television School, University of Durham, London College of Printing, and Oxford Brookes University amongst others. He has also worked as Director, Producer and Series Producer, Executive Producer on productions for a number of broadcasters including: Discovery, Discovery Asia and Discovery Europe, National Geographic Channels International, History Channel (US) and History Television (Canada) BBC, PBS , Channel 4, SBS, RTE, ITV, NBC, NHK and cinema. Increasingly he works as a script doctor and editing director fixing other people's programmes.

Teresa Smith

Teresa has exec produced a number of award-winning films including:
Fallujah: the First Eye Witness, Dir. Ali Fadhil - winner of Gaby Rado Amnesty International Media Award/ shortlisted for Rory Peck Sony International Impact Award 2005.
Darfur, Dir. Phil Cox - Rory Peck Sony International Impact 2004.
Operation Ivy League, Dir. Martin Adler - Rory Peck Hard News Award 2004.
She also produced Good Morning Baghdad with Inigo Gilmore - shortlisted for best feature Rory Peck and Foreign Press Awards 2004.
America's Hidden Wounded Soldiers, Sara Nason/Mehreen Saigol - shortlisted for Rory Peck 2004.
RTS Award for Innovation in Production 2000 - the photojournalism films of David Modell for Channel 4 News
Amnesty International Media Award 2002 - Milosevic on Trial - with Gaby Rado for Channel 4 News

As a Producer/Director of documentaries Teresa's work includes:
9/11 Though Muslim Eyes - with Fuad Nahdi 2002 Channel 4 - filming in Jenin, Nablus, Gaza and Al Jazeera HQ in Doha.
Reflections of Ground Zero - with photographer Joel Meyerowitz Channel 4
Naomi Klein - Standing Up to the Brand Bullies, 2000, Channel 4.

Edi Smockum

Edi has worked on a variety of genres from observational films such as The House Trap, to historical series (The American Century, Timewatch) and is currently writing and producing her first docu-drama. She has been a tutor at the National Film and Television School's short course unit since 1997 and served as an editorial consultant for the award-winning PBS series Extreme Close-Up. She also writes for the Financial Times.

Tim Sparke

Tim set up MercuryMedia in 2000 as a production and distribution company specializing in raising finance for factual programming. Tim oversees all matters relating to MercuryMedia and along with Aggregator TV, has recently launched the new documentary broadband service joiningthedots.tv, which aims to be the number one destination for solid documentaries.

Tim’s previous work includes stints at Walt Disney/ABC, Thames Television, Itel and WTN. At WTN he set up its successful Programmes and Entertainment Division.

Steve Stevenson

Steve has produced and directed films for the BBC, Channel 4 and National Geographic, but works mainly as an editor. He gained a degree in Fine Arts before attending the National Film & Television School. As well as editing, he has a strong background in film research, collaborating with David Byrne on the ground-breaking Talking Heads film Once In A Lifetime for the opening season of Channel 4, and vast and complex productions like LWT ‘s five-day studio recreation of The Trial Of Lee Harvey Oswald. His editing work ranges across observational films, long-form documentaries and drama docs, and includes:
Suez – A Very British Crisis   Dir. Louise Hooper, BBC2
Extreme Pilgrim   Dir.Graham Johnson, BBC2
Beyond Boundaries    Diverse for BBC2
Blizzard Race To The Pole    Dir. Sean Smith, Keo Films for BBC2
Mary Seacole - Lost Angel Of The Crimea   Dir. Sonali Fernando, October Films for C4
Once Upon A Time In Polizzi   Dir. Camilla Overbye Roos, Kraka Productions for Arte
Catherine The Great   Prod/Dir. Paul Burgess, Brook Lapping for BBC/HBO/Arte
The Private Life of a Masterpiece   Dir. Bob Bentley, Fulmar Television for BBC2
George Orwell – My Life In Pictures    Dir. Chris Durlacher, Wall To Wall for BBC2 (BAFTA nominee for editing 2004 /Grierson Award 2004 - Best Documentary on the Arts /International Emmy for Best Arts Programme 2004)
Timewatch - Hitler, Himmler and the Third Reich    Dir. Detlef Siebert, BBC2
Boy Hero 001    Dir. Pekka Lehto, Aurora Films for Kinofinlandia/Antenne 2 (Winner of the State Prize of Finland for the Arts)
Arthouse - Loving Lenin   Dir. Angus MacQueen, October Films for C4
Everyman - The Hand of Stalin   Dir. John Walker, October Films for BBC2 (Nominated Best Documentary, Toronto Film Festival, awarded Best Director)

Audrius Stonys

Audrius is a Lithuanian independent filmmaker and producer who has made 13 films and won 18 international awards. After studying television and cinema directing at the Vilnius State Conservatoire he went on to work at the Jonas Mekas Cinema Anthology Archive in New York in 1989. Since then he has made his name as a major force in Lithuanian cinema and completed a number of documentary films.

As one of the most established Lithuanian Directors he is the only Lithuanian to have received the Felix award for the Best European Documentary film of the year from the European Film Academy for his film The Land of the Blind. His documentaries include Countdown about the film and theatre director and actor Augustinas Baltrusaitis and Alone a film that looks at child loneliness. Both films have screened at many international festivals and were widely acclaimed. Retrospectives of his work have been held in Switzerland, France, Russia, Israel, Czech Republic and Lithuanian towns. Audrius also works as a documentary tutor at the European Film College in Denmark and has lectured in Europe and Japan.

Linda Stradling

Linda has spent more than 20 years in the TV industry and is an experienced and well-established production manager who manages long and complex series with substantial budgets for major broadcasters, including Channel 4, BBC, Discovery Channel & National Geographic. She has worked largely in the documentary and drama/doc field and enjoys the logistical challenge of a large team, co-funded projects and multi-versioned programmes delivered to a tight deadline, as well as finely crafted one-off docs - often at the same time! She is practised at setting up foreign shoots in difficult or volatile locations, putting together a balanced team and her budgeting and cost control skills are second to none, along with her sense of humour.

Having trained originally as a teacher, Linda has taught on a variety of courses covering the basic skills required for the documentary TV industry, and courses emphasising factual production management skills.

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