SARAH FELTES SERIES PRODUCER/DIRECTOR 8 Melyn Close, London N7 0RH mob. 07747 628 532 e-mail: [email protected]

I’m an experienced series producer and director with a strong track record in popular history and specialist factual productions in both the UK and US. Whether working with top name talent or with people who've never been filmed before, I'm passionate about delivering compelling stories that elicit genuine emotion from contributors.

Series Producer

8/16-present Who Do You Think You Are? – Wall To Wall Television for BBC1 Current series of 10 x 58’ following celebrities on their genealogical journeys of discovery.

7/15-7/16 Who Do You Think You Are? – Wall To Wall Television, London Ten episodes featuring Danny Dyer, Amanda Holden, Liz Bonnin, Cheryl, Ricky Tomlinson, Sir Ian McKellen, Sophie Raworth, Sunetra Sarker, Warwick Davis and Greg Davies.

Producer/Director

1/15-6/15 Who Do You Think You Are? Mark Gatiss – Wall To Wall Television for BBC1

Long Lost Family – Wall To Wall Television for ITV1 One each of two stories in two episodes.

3/14 – 6/14 Who Do You Think You Are? Reggie Yates – Wall To Wall Television for BBC1

11/13 - 2/14 Who Do You Think You Are? Sheridan Smith – Wall To Wall Television for BBC1

8/13 -10/13 Blenheim Palace: Great War House – NBCUniversal for ITV 1 One hour in which Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes charts above- and below-stairs stories of Blenheim Palace during the First World War.

4/13 - 6/13 Who Do You Think You Are? Nick Hewer – Wall To Wall Television for BBC1

12/12 - 3/13 My Hero: Hugh Dennis on Ronnie Barker – BBC Comedy, London, for BBC1 Comedian Hugh Dennis explores the life and work of his comedy hero.

7/12 - 12/12 Paul O’Grady’s Working Britain – BBC Factual, London, for BBC1 One episode in Paul O’Grady’s first-person exploration of working-class history.

4/12 - 6/12 Who Do You Think You Are? Alex Kingston – Wall To Wall Television for BBC1

1/12 - 3/12 Who Do You Think You Are? USA – Rashida Jones – Shed Media, Los Angeles for NBC

9/11 - 11/11 Who Do You Think You Are? USA – Helen Hunt – Shed Media, Los Angeles for NBC

6/11 - 9/11 Who Do You Think You Are? USA – Blair Underwood – Shed Media, Los Angeles for NBC

2/11 - 4/11 The King’s Speech Revealed – Bedlam Productions, London, for Five One-hour documentary following Mark Logue (grandson of King George VI’s speech therapist, Lionel Logue) as he investigates the history behind the feature film.

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7/10 - 10/10 Who Do You Think You Are? June Brown – Wall To Wall Television for BBC1

3/10 - 6/10 Who Do You Think You Are? Monty Don – Wall To Wall Television for BBC1

10/09 - 2/10 Who Do You Think You Are? Alexander Armstrong – Wall To Wall Television for BBC1

5/09 - 9/09 Special Edition of Not Forgotten: Soldiers of Empire – Wall To Wall Television for C4 One hour in which Ian Hislop tells stories of soldiers from across the British Empire during the First World War. “It is hard to see how a programme of this sort could be bettered.” The Times

12/08 - 4/09 Who Do You Think You Are? USA – Sarah Jessica Parker – Wall To Wall Television, Los Angeles for NBC First episode of the American series

5/08 - 9/08 Who Do You Think You Are? Rory Bremner – Wall To Wall Television for BBC1

2/08 - 5/08 Secret Millionaire – RDF Television, London/Bristol, for C4 One hour in which millionaire Caroline Marsh goes undercover in Liverpool, in order to find people to help.

12/06 - 4/07 Who Do You Think You Are? Matthew Pinsent – Wall To Wall Television for BBC1

6/06 - 10/06 What Makes Britain Rich? – BBC Documentaries, Bristol, for BBC2 Two segments of 90 minutes presented by Peter Snow and his son Dan.

2/06 - 6/06 Painting The Mind – Focus Productions, Bristol, for C4 One hour about two ‘stroke artists’, Jon Sarkin and Tommy McHugh, and the science behind their artistic production. “What made this programme so fascinating was not just the questions it raised about where the creative impulse lies, but the way it illuminated the very purpose of art, especially the needs it satisfies in the artist.” Tim Dowling in The Guardian.

10/05 - 2/06 The Real Rain Man – Focus Productions, Bristol for Five One hour for the Extraordinary People strand about the late Kim Peek, the memory savant who inspired the Hollywood movie, and the science behind his rare brain condition.

6/04 - 1/05 Seaside Rescue – BBC General Factual, Bristol, for BBC1

2/03 - 3/04 SuperHomes: The Wild West and SuperHomes: London – Flashback Television, Bristol, for BBC2 Two one-hour episodes in a six-part series about the super-rich and the property market.

8/02 - 1/03 Time Shift: Alistair Cooke’s Postcards From America – BBC General Factual, Bristol, for BBC Four One hour looking at the more than fifty years of Cooke’s Letter From America radio broadcasts through archive footage of key events in American history. Time Shift: Whatever Happened to the Working Class? – BBC General Factual, Bristol, for BBC Four Forty-five minutes looking at the history of the British working class.

5/01 - 2/02 Body Hunt: The Search for the Unknown Soldiers – BBC Docs & Investigations, London, for BBC2 Fifty minutes about efforts to identify remains of soldiers who went missing in action in the First World War.

Edit Producer

6/14-7/14 Who Do You Think You Are? Twiggy – Wall To Wall Television for BBC1

Assistant Producer

10/00 - 5/01 Body Hunt – BBC Documentaries & Investigations, London, for BBC2 A series of 50-minute programmes about forensic archaeology and missing persons cases.

10/99 - 10/00 Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl – BBC Features, Bristol, for BBC2 A six-part history series.

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Early Television and Film Work

1/96 - 1/99 Partridge Films, San Francisco and Bristol - Production Co-ordinator, then Assistant Producer 7/95 - 12/95 Saul Zaentz Film Centre, Berkeley, California - feature film Apprentice Sound Editor on David Fincher’s Seven

Education

MA (Communication), Documentary Film and Video Production, Stanford University, California, 1995 • intensive directors’ course requiring performance of all documentary crew roles; producing, directing and editing four films; and a thorough grounding in film theory and history • thesis film a ‘humanity above nation’ selection at Hawaii International Film Festival, 1995

MA (History), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1990 • concentration on 19th- and 20th-century American social history

BA (Honours History), McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1988

Awards

University Fellow, Northwestern University, 1988-1989

James McGill Scholarship, 1984-1987

Citizenship

American and Canadian (dual national)

Right to work (Right of Abode) in Great Britain

References

Available on request

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