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Alison Rooper - executive producer
With over 25 years in the industry, Alison Rooper is an award winning producer/director and executive producer working across factual programming of all genres. At Granada Television she worked with documentary producer Roger Graef and on the historical documentaries of Brian Lapping. After joining the BBC as producer / director, she went on to edit and series produce some of the corporation's flagship programmes in science, documentary and current affairs. She has been responsible for a number of international co-productions both within the BBC and as an independent producer through In Focus Productions. Recent films include the Emmy nominated Doping for Gold, shown on PBS’s Secrets of the Dead in 2008 and on Five as Revealed:The Great Olympic Drug Scandal . Also Cell: The Chemistry of Life premiered on BBC4 in August 2009.
Directors we work with:
Nancy Schiesari - producer / camera / director
Nancy’s latest film Tattooed Under Fire airs in the US in 2009. Her previous full-length documentary Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer (see below) aired on PBS Independent Lens, the Australian Broadcast Corporation, and is currently airing on TVOntario. She also directed History Man, a half-hour profile on Martin Scorsese that aired on BBC 4 in 2003. Her award winning children’s video, Mr. Zamboni, won the Silver Apple at the National Education Media Awards in 1999. Nancy also has more than twenty years experience as a Director of Photography on over 30 documentaries and feature films broadcast for England’s Channel 4, BBC in London, ABC, National Geographic, and PBS. She was nominated for a 2002 Television Emmy for outstanding cinematography on The Human Face (producer John Cleese). Among her work as cinematographer is Barbara Sonneborn’s Academy Award nominated documentary, Regret to Inform.
Lara Akeju - director / camera
Lara, director of the Three Minute Wonder films Becoming British is an upcoming new documentary director specialising in observational documentary. Recent credits include: Welcome to My World (Channel 4) and Teen Tycoons (Channel 4).
Elizabeth C. Jones - producer / director / camera Elizabeth, who produced and directed The Headmaster and the Headscarves, started her career as a reporter for Newsweek magazine. In 1992 she bought a small video camera and a Land Rover and travelled across Africa to start making television news features. Aside from covering many of Africa's wars, she has also worked in Afghanistan, Iraq and the West Bank. She has played a part on a number of award-winning series and programmes, including directing BBC's Holidays in the Axis of Evil, which won a Foreign Press Association Award and was shortlisted for a Grierson Award. She has been a finalist for the Rory Peck Award five times since the award was founded nine years ago, and for her work in Jenin in 2002, she was shortlistedEsteban Uyarra - director / camera
Director and photographer of War Feels Like War Esteban was born in Spain in 1971, and studied chemistry in Barcelona before graduating in film at Sheffield Hallam University in 1998. He worked as a freelance editor for a number of UK channels and post-production houses while researching and planning his own work. In 2002 he directed "The Runner", an unreleased film about the fiesta of San Fermin in Pamplona. The film won Best International Documentary and Best Debut Director at the New York Independent Film Festival. In 2003 he spent three months on his own in the Kuwait and Iraq making "War Feels Like War", his first broadcast documentary. more ...
Jill Nicholls - producer / director
Jill, who produced and directed Saints and Sinners, is a freelance film maker with a long track record in making quality documentaries for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five. She has made intimate documentaries about young women making big decisions in their lives – ballet dancers, fire fighters, schoolgirl mothers, and nuns and produced and directed several series about the turmoil inside institutions. These include Superstore, about Britain's biggest supermarket chain, When Rover Met BMW, Royal College of Art and a series about the sultans' harem in the Ottoman Empire, told from the point of view of powerful women within its walls. Jill is known for observational documentary, history and current affairs - notably Dispatches, 30 Minutes and Channel 4 News, for which she made the In Focus news feature about Women on Waves.
Phil Day - producer / director
Director and writer of Massacre in Luxor, Phil is one of Britain's most prolific documentary film makers, producing more than 50 hours of primetime tv in just over a decade. Phil's subjects range from politics to sports and science to history. His first film Japan Live Performance won Best Documentary Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Since then he has been an EMMY Award finalist twice and has won the Peabody Award and a British Indie Award. See here for more about Phil Day and his latest productions.
