CHARLES COLVILLE SERIES PRODUCER
Email: [email protected] Tel: 07740 631810 ______
PROFILE
I am also a Series Producer and a very experienced award winning Producer/Director of Science, History and Current affairs documentaries for BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and CNN. I have a proven record in innova ve filming. I have huge experience of cas ng interviewees, direc ng presenters, using archive ,and shaping narra ve both on loca on and in the edit. I have led teams to film in complicated and challenging situa ons.
I have ini ated ideas, successfully pitched and developed a range of programmes, from series to one- off documentaries for Bri sh and U.S Channels. I have used my extensive journalis c skills to discover, shape stories and film them on loca on.
I am passionate about stories which make our world and filming them to create a compelling and innova ve programme.
KEY SKILLS
• Speak conversa onal French and Russian
• Health and safety management
• Current Hos le Environment trained
• Commissioning graphics
• Trained Canon Xf350 and C300
• Directed cineflex
• Worldwide network of contacts
PRODUCTION CREDITS
WWII BATTLES IN COLOR ( Smithsonian) 6x 45’ Series Producer. GTV April 2020-June 2021
Execu ve producer Tilman Remme. Commissioner John Cavanagh
THE WINDSORS:INSIDE THE ROYAL DYNASTY (CNN) 6 x 45’ Series Producer. Raw TV. April 2019-Feb 2020
Exec producer Liz Har ord. Commissioner Lyle Gamm
BRITAIN IN COLOUR (Smithsonian Channel) 3 x 50’ Series Producer. Arrow Media. Jan-March 2019
Exec producer Sam Starbuck. Commissioner Charles Poe
AMERICA IN COLOR (Smithsonian Channel) 6 x 50’ Series Producer. Arrow Media June-Dec 2018
Exec producer Sam Starbuck. Commissioner Charles Poe
Managing big teams of archivists and producers Shaping stories
Supervising edits to picture lock
THE CHANNEL TUNNEL (CHANNEL FIVE) 2 x 60’ Series Producer. Windfall Films. 2018
Execu ve Producer Ian Duncan. Commissioner: Lucy Willis
Managing teams for two part series
Shaping narra ve, archive and interviews.
ELIZABETH,THE QUEEN, (CHANNEL FIVE AND INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTIONS. ) Series Producer 8 x 60’. 2017. Execu ve Producer Ian Russell. Commissioner: Lucy Willis.
ROYAL OBITUARIES ( CHANNEL 4) ITN Produc ons. Producer/Director. August 2016-March 2017. Exec Producer: Chris Shaw. Commissioner: Dorothy Byrne
-Ini ated scripts, and edited archive based narra ves
-cast and gained rare access to interviewees used loca ons for maximum on camera effect
Made 2x1’ films on ght budget,concentra ng on ge ng money on screen.
CURING ALZHEIMER’S (BBC2 ) 1 x 60’ Producer/Director 2016 Exec Prod: Steve Crabtree
- Wrote and edited narra ves on new genera on of Alzheimer’s research -Gained access and shaped stories of five extraordinary stories of lives overshadowed by Alzheimer’s -Directed stories in innova ve and accessible style -Commissioned original organic graphics
BRITAIN’S BOMB (BBC4) Producer/Director 2015 Exec Prod: Zoe Heron Commissioner: Cassian Harrison
SEX AND THE CHURCH: (BBC2) 4 x 60’ P/D 2014 Exec Prod: Chris Granlund
SCIENCE SPECIAL: COMET OF THE CENTURY ( BBC2) P/D 2013 Exec Prod: Jonathan Renouf
THE KING’S ENFORCER ( BBC2) P /D 2013: Exec Prod: Chris Granlund
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ( BBC2) P/D 2012 Exec Prod: Mike Tu
ROUNDHEADS AND CAVALIERS (BBC4) P/D 2012:Exec Prod: Chris Granlund
ORBITS (BBC2) 4 x 60’ Producer/Director 2011 : Exec Prod: Jonathan Renouf -Successfully directed new talent Dr Helen Czerksi in a landmark science series on rela onship between the Earth’s orbit and its effect on the environment. -Successfully directed Kate Humble in some of the most inaccessible and dangerous places in the Americas from Greenland, through the Andes and down the Beagle Chanel in Patagonia -Led crew to capture trauma c weather events in North and South America -Commissioned innova ve CGI graphics -Extensive aerial filming with cineflex in North America NORMANS (BBC2) Producer/Director 2011 Sept: Exec Prod: Chris Granlund
HOW THE EARTH MADE US (BBC2) P/D 2010: Exec Producer: Jonathan Renouf -Successfully directed Prof Iain Stewart on award winning earth sciences series filmed in 10 countries. Looked at the rela onship between the geology of the planet and the development of human socie es. Filming in Iran, China, Azerbaijan, Turkey and USA. HOW COOKING MADE US HUMAN (BBC2 Horizon) P/D 2009: Exec Producer: Andrew Cohen - developed and directed new theory on how the discovery of cooking allowed early humans to develop big brains and compact bodies
THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN JOURNEY (BBC2) P/D 2008:Exec Producer: Kim Shillinglaw Award winning series with Prof Alice Roberts on how early homo sapiens spread through Siberia and China during the Ice Age. Filming in Russia, Mongolia and China
OTHER SCIENCE CREDITS
JOURNEYS ROUND THE RING OF FIRE (BBC4) Doc series on how seismic geology affected development of culture in Japan, Indonesia and Peru
TSUNAMI SPECIAL (BBC1) The science of the Tsunami filmed with vic ms, and scien st around the Indian Ocean
TRAUMA : SOUTH AFRICA (BBC3) Obs doc in A & E Central Hospital, Johannesburg
TRAUMA: ( BBC 1) Obs Doc A & E Royal London Hospital
INTENSIVE SCARES: (BBC1) Unique study of the long term problems for prematurely born babies.
CURRENT AFFAIRS CREDITS
MONEY PROGRAMME (BBC 2) P/D 30 minute shows. Including “People Smugglers”, “Monsanto – the GM giant, “ The steel Maharaja- Blair’s cash-for-favours scandal.”
‘ASSIGNMENT’ (BBC2) P/D The Mafia police in St Petersburg and gay rights in USA
NEWSNIGHT (BBC2). On- the- day Editor Producer on-loca ons films New York Producer- filmed across North America Moscow Producer for the end of the Soviet Union. Filming across the former Soviet Union and at the live filming at the historic moments of the end of the USSR
GORBACHEV’S REVOLUTION (BBC1) researcher First live BBC TV studio broadcast out of USSR REFERENCES
Steve Crabtree Editor, BBC Horizon Steve.crabtree@bbc.co.uk
Chris Granlund Head of BBC History [email protected]