Credits
With over 10 years’ of experience in the high-end factual genera, I have produced and directed over 25 behavioural sequences across several long-form productions for premium broadcasters.
2023 - Present
Wildlife & Conservation Short
PRODUCER / DIRECTOR
Self-produced short independent film currently in production. My role includes; story development, pitching, storyboarding, scheduling, budgeting, sourcing funding, directing and edit producing. This film will be an all-female team helping to showcase talent throughout all stages of production. Estimated completion June 2024.
2022 - 2023
BBC ONE | ASIA
FIELD DIRECTOR BBC Studios
Exec Producer: Roger Webb, Series Producer: Matthew Wright, Producer: Sara Douglas
I was brought on to provide additional support as a
director on the mountains episode of this blue chip
landmark. I was tasked with taking on the more challenging ‘High Risk’ deployments and supporting and mentoring junior members of the production. Airs autumn 2024.
2020 - 2022
BBC ONE | MAMMALS
ASSISTANT PRODUCER BBC STUDIOS
Exec Producer: Roger Webb, Series Producer: Scott Alexander, Producers: Daniel Rasmussen & Will Lawson.
Joining the team during the development phase for the series I was tasked with supporting the two most logistically challenging and highly skilled episodes: Cold and Water, for this blue-chip landmark series. I worked closely with the producers to help develop story arcs and narratives across the episodes. For my sequences, I managed the budgets, the storyboard and edit-produced the sequence. These sequences were complex logistics and multi-camera directing. My most challenging shoot was a logistics share with another production company, in the Arctic, working on open ocean sea ice, utilising a gyro-stabilised system and an underwater rebreather team. Additionally, I edit produced the making-of short film for the cold episode. Airs March 2024.
2020
BBC TWO | EDEN UNTAMED PLANET
FIELD DIRECTOR
Exec Producer: Mark Brownlow, Series Producer: Steve Cole, Producer: Jo Haley
Directed a co-produced sequence in the Galapagos . This needed a close relationship with the producer of the co-production and shooting to multiple scripts and shot lists. I managed a multi-operator team spanning underwater, topside, gimble and drone.
2019 - 2020
DEVELOPMENT AP TRUE TO NATURE
Exec Producer: Wendy Darke, Head of Development: Rowan Musgrave, Producer: Hannah Boot
I was brought on to support the secondary development of several blue-chip productions. Working closely with a
senior producer I wrote treatments, production calendars, budgets and produced a 3-minute extended sizzle. Two
of these projects were green-lit including SKY ‘Predators’ and SKY ‘Shark with Steve Backshall’
2016 - 2019
BBC ONE
A PERFECT PLANET
SERIES RESEARCHER
Exec Producer: Alastair Fothergill, Series Producer: Huw Cordey, Producers: Ed Charles & Nick Shoolingin-Jordan
As the series researcher on the production, I was with the team from the initial development of the series. Working closely with producers I pitched sequences and helped to shape the overall series narrative. I oversaw the logistics for 15 international shoots and solo directed 8 sequences including a multi-camera-operator long lens predation sequence in the Canadian Arctic, a macro studio shoot in the USA, seasonal lapse-times in Zambia and Zimbabwe, a night-time macro shoot in South Africa, a predation sequence in the Falklands and an underwater predation sequence in Australia. I also self-shot and directed 1 x 10 min making of. During the edit, I was responsible for logging rushes, edit prepping sequences, sourcing and clearing archive and producing additional content such as 360 and minisodes.
2017
NETFLIX | OUR PLANET
Field Director, Silverback Films
Exec Producer: Alastair Fothergill, Series Producer: Huw Cordey
I was brought on to provide additional field support as a director and managed the remote ropes aspect of the shoot - filming gorillas and forest elephants in the Republic of the Congo.
2015 - 2016
BBC ONE
PLANET EARTH II
RESEARCHER
Exec Producer: Jonny Keeling, Series Producer: Tom Hugh-Jones, Producers: Chadden Hunter & Liz White
Directed two sequences on the series - a macro studio shoot in the UK and a time-lapse sequence in Hawaii filming on an active lava field with helicopter access. My responsibilities included logging footage in AVID, assisting with script writing and fact-checking, and sourcing archive footage which included organising the tele- cine of super 16mm film rolls.