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 innovave filming. I have huge experience of casng interviewees, direcng presenters, using archive ,and shaping narrave both on locaon and in the edit. I have led teams to film in complicated and challenging situaons.

I have iniated ideas, successfully pitched and developed a range of programmes, from series to one- off documentaries for Brish and U.S Channels. I have used my extensive journalisc skills to discover, shape stories and film them on locaon.

I am passionate about stories which make our world and filming them to create a compelling and innovave programme.

KEY SKILLS

• Speak conversaonal French and Russian

• Health and safety management

• Current Hosle 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

Execuve 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 Harord. 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

Execuve Producer Ian Duncan. Commissioner: Lucy Willis

Managing teams for two part series

Shaping narrave, archive and interviews.

ELIZABETH,THE QUEEN, (CHANNEL FIVE AND INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTIONS. ) Series Producer 8 x 60’. 2017. Execuve Producer Ian Russell. Commissioner: Lucy Willis.

ROYAL OBITUARIES ( CHANNEL 4) ITN Producons. Producer/Director. August 2016-March 2017. Exec Producer: Chris Shaw. Commissioner: Dorothy Byrne

-Iniated scripts, and edited archive based narraves

-cast and gained rare access to interviewees used locaons for maximum on camera effect

Made 2x1’ films on ght budget,concentrang on geng money on screen.

CURING ALZHEIMER’S (BBC2 ) 1 x 60’ Producer/Director 2016 Exec Prod: Steve Crabtree

- Wrote and edited narraves on new generaon of Alzheimer’s research -Gained access and shaped stories of five extraordinary stories of lives overshadowed by Alzheimer’s -Directed stories in innovave 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 relaonship 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 traumac weather events in North and South America -Commissioned innovave 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 on award winning earth sciences series filmed in 10 countries. Looked at the relaonship between the geology of the planet and the development of human sociees. 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 vicms, and scienst around the Indian Ocean

TRAUMA : SOUTH (BBC3) Obs doc in A & E Central Hospital, Johannesburg

TRAUMA: ( BBC 1) Obs Doc A & E Royal 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-locaons 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@.co.uk

Chris Granlund Head of BBC History [email protected]