JEREMY WILLIAMS CURRICULUM VITAE

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As an award-winning television producer/director [BAFTA, World Media Award] I have worked in broadcast television in the UK for twenty years. Producing and directing a range of programmes from current affairs and observational documentaries to history and factual entertainment, I have led creative teams to deliver visually stylish and content rich programming that have generated large audiences, achieved critical acclaim and been screened at film festivals worldwide.

EMPLOYMENT

NORMAL LIFE 2010-2016 PICTURES/TWENTY FOUR FILMS Director/Producer “On A Knife Edge” Vision Maker/Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund/South Dakota Humanities Fund/Nebraska Humanities Fund: A 90-minute feature documentary with animation. Across four years this observational film follows the coming-of-age of a young Lakota boy from a remarkable Native American family living in the poorest community in the United States. The film deals with leadership and identity and captures the current social, economic and political instability on the Reservation. The film references American wars, history and injustice. Currently in production 2011- 2016. DoP Steve Robinson. Hi-Definition.

QUICKSILVER 2009

Producer/Director “Dispatches: Orphans of the Burma Cyclone” : A 60- minute documentary filmed inside Burma by under-cover cameramen working for the Democratic Voice of Burma following orphan survivors of Burma’s Cyclone Nargis, the devastating storm that hit the country in May 2008. Flim highlighted the plight of the Burmese living under the military junta. TX C4 June 2009. HDV. Screened in the US as ‘Eyes of the storm’ for Wide-Angle/PBS. Winner of the One World Childrens’ Rights Award 2010 and the Rory Peck Award 2010. Runner Up Best Documentary, AIB Awards 2009. The film was used by the Democratic Voice of Burma [DVB] in their campaign for social and political change in Burma.

OCTOBER FILMS 2007-2009

Producer/Director/ Writer Nobel Media: “Restless Flights: The Literature of JMG Le Clezio”, a 30 minute portrait of the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008 author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio. Filmed a rare, in-depth interview with the writer in Nice and followed him on a trip to Mauritius, the home of his ancestors and the setting of his greatest novels. DoP Michael Timney. Nobel Media. DvCam

Producer BBC Storyville: “The Ghosts of the 7th Cavalry”, a 90-minute feature documentary following American 7th Cavalry veteran of Major Robert ‘Snuffy’ Gray - a tale of 150 years of US frontier history and a journey into the mind of a troubled American war hero. Developed and produced the doc and organised access with the US Department of Defense and Korean & Vietnam veteran association groups. For BBC Storyville, ARTE and NHK. Nominated for a One World Media Award for Best Documentary 2009 & “Best of the Fest,” Minneapolis Film Festival 2010. Hi-Definition.

OPTOMEN TV 2007

Producer/Director/ Writer Channel Four: “Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares”, 1x60 flagship show with Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay attempting to turn round an ailing restaurant called The Priory in West Sussex. 4.6 million audience, the highest in the series, with a 20% share. Series won a BAFTA for the production team in the ‘Features’ category 2008. Digibeta.

LANDMARK FILMS 2002-2007

Series Director BBC 1 & BBC2: “Sleep Clinic”, series of 8x30 minute documentaries for BBC1 and BBC2 about patients treated by Papworth Hospital’s Sleep Centre in Cambridgeshire. Worked across the series managing a team of directors and associate producers and liaised with the medical and administrative teams at Papworth Hospital. TX February–April 2007. Audiences between 2.5-3 million and shares of 20% at 10.30 slot BBC1. DVcam.

Series Producer Five TV: “Beat It”, series of 3x60 minute observational documentaries for Five TV about people trying to overcome obstacles in their lives. Managed and led a production team of eight and directed two documentaries in the series, The Boy Who Stammered, about a teenager lad with a speech impediment and Angry With My Father, about a young man with a violent temper. programmes. TX June 2007. DVcam.

Writer/Producer /Director “Our Father Who Art In Heaven”, a 15 minute festival doc about two brothers who grew up with a violent and abusive father who return home on his death. Completed 2006. Screened Raindance Film Festival 2007, Runner Up, Best Documentary, Rushes Soho Shorts 2007. Also screened in 2007 at The End of the Pier International Film Festival in the UK and at the ‘In The Palace’ International Short Film Festival in Bulgaria. Currently screening on BBC Film Network. DVcam.

Producer/Director Five TV: “Pet Poisoners,” 60 minute documentary for Five about strange and dark cases of pet poisoning across the country – Britain’s fastest growing violent crime. TX November 2006. Digibeta.

Producer/Director Five TV: “Extraordinary Pets,” 60-minute documentary about Americans who keep Tigers, Giraffe and Crocodiles as pets at home. Five TV TX Autumn 2005. Audience 1.5 million. Digibeta.

Producer/Director Five TV: “Real Wife Swaps: The Business of Swinging”, 60- minute documentary in a series of three about the growing middle class swinging scene in the home counties for Five. Audience 2 million - highest rated viewing figures for documentary series on Five in 2004. Digibeta TX August 2004.

Producer/Director ITV 1: “The Tallest People in Britain”, 60-minute documentary about four people who are extraordinarily tall for ITV. TX June 2004. Super 16mm. 30% audience share ITV1.

Producer/Director ITV 1: “The Laziest Men in Britain”, 60-minute documentary about idle blokes for ITV. Super 16mm. TX June 2003. 34% audience share ITV1.

Producer ITV 1: “The Angriest Men in Britain”, 60-minute documentary for ITV about three men on a short fuse. Super 16mm. TX August 2002. 31% audience share ITV1.

Producer ITV 1: “The Unluckiest Faces in Britain”, 60-minute documentary for ITV about people whose lives have been shaped by their ugly looks. Super16mm. TX August 2002. 37% audience share ITV1. Short-listed Grierson Kodak Award Best Documentary 2003.

24 FRAMES-PER-SECOND FILMS

Writer/Producer/ Director “Ad Infinitum”, 15-minute short about a woman’s reflections on life. UK & Kosovo Albanian cast and co-directed with Altina Ruli. Super 16mm. Screened at the Chichester Film Festival (2002) and accompanied the English premiere of Lynne Ramsay’s feature film Morvern Callar. Selected for Ljubljana International Film Festival in Slovenia (2002) and screened in New York January 2003. Co-writer/Producer/ Director “Undone” – trailer for a feature film set in Kosovo following the lives of three young people wrapped up in the aftermath of the conflict in 1999. Cast included Serbian and Albanian actors. Co- wrote script for full feature film with Altina Ruli. Shot on Super 16mm. 2004

OCTOBER FILMS 1996-2002

Producer BBC Timewatch: “Kill ‘em All”, 50-minute documentary for BBC2’s History strand Timewatch about US war crimes during the Korean War (1950-53) and the Pentagon’s attempts to cover them up. TX Feb 2002. Directed by Tom Roberts. Worked closely with a team of Pulitzer Prize winning Associated Press Journalists in Korea and the United States. Uncovered new evidence of war crimes committed during the Korean War by US forces. Screened at the Santa Cruz Film Festival June 2003. Digibeta.

Producer BBC Modern Times: “London”, 90-minute observational documentary for BBC2’s documentary strand Modern Times. Twenty-two film crews across London capture the life of the capital over a twenty-four hour period. Originated and produced the film and managed a team of sixty. Film co-directed by Angus Macqueen and Tom Roberts. Daily Telegraph Documentary of the Year. TX September 2000. Digibeta.

Writer/Producer Channel 4: “The Colour of Love”, 30-minute documentary for Channel 4’s Adoption Season (2000) about black children adopted into white families. Short-listed for a Prix Europa in 2000 in the Social/History category. Director Denman Rooke. TX Feb 2000 Digibeta.

Producer Channel 4: “The War Machine -‘Testing Times’”, 60-minute observational documentary for Channel 4 about the secret scientific establishment DERA which designed and developed new weapons of war for the UK’s MoD. Worked as Associate Producer on two additional films in the series about Future Infantry Soldier Technology [FIST] and Naval weapons for coastal waters. Series Directors Stephen Haggard & Kevin Hull. TX March 1997.

CONTENT IS KING 2000 Producer/Director European Union: “The Euro for Europe” – 15 minute publicity film subsequently used by schools and colleges to precede the arrival of the single currency in Europe. Commissioned by the European Union. Made in conjunction with London-based advertising and media company Content Is King. 2000.

WALL TO WALL TV 1998

Writer/Producer Channel 4: “Weekly Planet”, BAFTA nominated 90-minute live current affairs discussion series chaired by for Channel 4. ‘Weekly Planet’ addressed current affairs topics including Algeria, Kosovo and the media and democracy. TX June-July 1998

JUNIPER TV 1992-1995

Producer/Director Channel 4:“The Goldring Audit” – series of three 60-minutes documentaries presented by distinguished journalist Mary Goldring about the UK’s export earning industries – motor manufacturing, tourism and pharmaceuticals. TX C4 April 1995.

Associate Producer Channel 4: ‘The Goldring Audit’ – a series of documentaries presented by Mary Goldring about the UK’s creative industries – the BBC, the record business and book publishing. TX C4 April 1994.

Researcher Channel 4: ‘The Goldring Audit’ – a series of documentaries presented by Mary Goldring about the UK’s privatised utilities – electricity, telecoms and water. Gained access and liased with Thames Water, London Electricity and British Telecom. Researched the documentaries and undertook some directing. TX April 1993.

Researcher Channel 4: “Answering Back’ - current affairs interview series in which Susannah Simon’s interviewed international figures from the world of business, industry and the arts, including Bill Gates, Maurice Saatchi and Akio Morita, the founder of Sony. TX C4 1992

EUROMONEY 1992

Journalist Completed trainee journalist position at Euromoney PLC . Wrote financial articles and conducted interviews with leading bankers and financiers for Corporate Finance magazine.

BBC RADIO 1990-1991

Reporter Worked as a freelance reporter for BBC Radio and attended BBC Radio training workshops. Worked for BBC Radio 4’s . Produced and edited a twelve minute radio doc on the privatisation of Hungary’s wine industry in 1991.

DECANTER 1988-1999

Journalist Freelance writer on wine for Decanter, the world’s leading wine magazine. Also wrote freelance for Wine Magazine, The Which? Wine Guide in the UK and The Wine Enthusiast in the US. Won the Martell Award for Excellence in 1992. Write for www.winewordsandvideotape.com as a fine wine blog principally on the wines of Bordeaux. Site visted by 3000 people a month.

EDUCATION

St. John’s College, Master of Philosophy in International Relations (1990-1991) Cambridge Bachelor of Arts in Geography, Class 2.1 (1987-1990)

St. John’s College, 3 ‘A’ Levels in Politics, History and Geography (all grade A) Southsea 9 ‘O’ Levels [History, Politics, Geography, Physics, Chemisty, English Language, English Literature, Maths and French]

DOCUMENTARY PRESS REVIEWS

DISPATCHES: ORPHANS OF BURMA’S CYCLONE C4

“Remarkable documentary...makes for heartbreaking yet utterly essential viewing moments of deeply touching human kindness which endure despite the conditions” Time Out

“Seminal programme.. the tales, the shots, the story are apocalyptic, devastating”

“A remarkable, wrenching film...a potential award-winner” The Times

“This is brave and important journalism”

“Moving and outrageous” Financial Times

“Shocking film that lays bare the callous indifference of Burma’s generals” The Mirror

“A bleak, thoughtful film that gives a disturbing account of the misery of the young survivors” The Evening Standard

BBC STORYVILLE: GHOSTS OF THE 7TH CAVALRY

“This fascinating, poignant, contemplative documentary weaves Major Robert ‘Snuffy’ Gray’s quest to meet up with surviving former army colleagues and find his own inner peace. With Gray now an avowed pacifist who recognises the futility of war while striving for reconciliation with the unit’s historical foes, this is a moving tribute to a remarkable man.” Time Out

“This thoughtful documentary considers America’s long record of dubious treatment of native peoples at home, in Vietnam and elsewhere.’ The Sunday Telegraph

“A moving study of the enduring potency of trauma and pride’ The Guardian

C4 RAMSAY’S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES, THE PRIORY

“A terrific new episode” The Daily Mail

C5 BEAT IT: THE BOY WITH A STAMMER

“Great stuff; if we were American we might even say it was inspirational” The Evening Standard

C5 REAL WIFE SWAPS: THE BUSINESS OF SWINGING

‘Isn’t all just a little odd?’ asks the unseen person behind the camera on Real Wife Swaps, with enviable comic timing…I began to wonder whether Real Wife Swaps might not be some kind of excellent spoof…the programme had started to resemble closely a darker-than- average episode of the mock-documentary series Human Remains. Giles Smith, The Sunday Telegraph

ITV1 THE TALLEST PEOPLE IN BRITAIN

“It doesn’t feel exploitative or crude: subjects are not treated as freaks but are handled sensitively.” Time Out

“I liked this film…..This was not a freak show, it was a tender look at four people who feel different, isolated by their size” The Guardian

“This poignant film……a moving documentary” The Sun

ITV1 THE ANGRIEST MEN IN BRITAIN

“I was gulping at the sadness of it all” Sunday Telegraph

“Wonderful, powerful and strangely affecting television……." The Daily Telegraph

ITV1 THE UNLUCKIEST FACES IN BRITAIN

“Amazingly thoughtful documentary." The Daily Telegraph

“A sensitively made programme about quiet desperation." The Daily Express

“Thoughtful and rather uplifting.” The Financial Times

“Thoughtful, engaging and really rather sensitive.” The Times

BBC 2 TIMEWATCH: KILL ‘EM ALL

“Tim Piggott-Smith narrates, and it’s hard not to be reminded of his role as the gung-ho general in Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday drama. Although the two incidents differed enormously, both resulted from a form of paranoia in which figures who posed no threat were crazily perceived as hostile.” The Sunday Times

“Stomach-churning. At the heart of the film is an account of the massacre of No Gun Ri, as documented in the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation undertaken by AP journalists….This film helps explain how a million Korean civilians died...”” The Financial Times

“A real jaw-dropper…echoes of last week’s Holocaust Conspiracy.” The Evening Standard

“Distressing…devastating.” The Mail on Sunday