KRISTINHADLAND
SERIES PRODUCER & PRODUCER DIRECTOR
[email protected] 0771 8111 600 www.kristinhadlandmedia.co.uk
PROFILE I am a versatile and creative self-shooting series producer & producer/director who is very comfortable working across documentary, current affairs and features. I’m organised, have a good grasp of compliance, and I’m experienced in making difficult programmes against tight schedules and across a range of budgets. I’ve worked with all the key UK broadcasters, and many well-known presenters, including Fiona Bruce, Jeremy Vine, and Jeremy Bowen.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Edit Producer Never Teach Your Wife To Drive 1 X 60 minutes 9 pm Channel 5 September 2014 A light hearted observational/fixed rig documentary following three men who are teaching their partners to drive. A transmittable pilot which set the blue print for the upcoming series. Channel 5 Productions. Exec Producer Richard Cooke. Commissioning Editor Greg Barnett.
• Series Producer (self-shooting) Children’s Emergency Rescue 3 X 60 minutes 8 pm BBC 2 Jan/Feb 2014 Winner RTS Yorkshire Best Factual Series 2014 Following the medical and emotional journeys of desperately ill babies and children transferred by specialists at the Infant and Paediatric Transport Service in Yorkshire. Shot on Canon FX 305 and fixed rig GoPros. Narrated by Fiona Bruce. Commissioning Editor Carla-Maria Lawson “Emotive almost to the point of being unwatchable … the third installment of this fine series, directing deserved attention towards the work of Yorkshire’s paediatric transport service” The Guardian
• Producer Director (self-shooting) Porn: What’s the Harm? 1 X 60 minutes 9 pm BBC3 April 2014 A presenter led documentary about the impact of internet porn on young people and their relationships. Including observational filming in sex education lessons and interviews with teenagers aged 14 and up. Shot on Sony PMW 300.
BBC Current Affairs. Presented by Jameela Jamil. Exec Producer Rob Unsworth. Commissioning Editor Clive Edwards.
• Series Producer (self shooting) Helicopter Heroes Down Under 10 X 30 minutes 11.45 am BBC1 2013 & 2014 I developed and won the commission for this ten part series following British Medics working for the Air Ambulance in Australia. I created the visual style of the programmes and edited the majority of the 10 episodes. It was shot using
Canon FX305 and GoPro rigs in helicopters. Commissioning Editor Carla Maria Lawson.
• Shooting PD Return to Forgotten Britain with Fergal Keane 9pm BBC2 December 2012 I filmed families on a deprived estate in Leeds using the Canon FX305. BBC Current Affairs Northern Ireland. Exec Producer Sam Collyns.
• Producer Director (also self-shooting) Extraordinary People: The Girl with 90% Burns 1 X 60 minutes 9pm Channel 5 The story of 15 year old Terri who was horrifically burned as a toddler. Nine Lives Media. Exec Producer Cat Lewis.
• Producer Director (self shooting) My Life: Staying Awake 1 X 30 minutes CBBC Observational documentary filmed on Canon FX 305. Blakeway North. Exec Producer Sarah Murch. Winner RTS North West Best Children’s Programme 2011
ADDITIONAL TRAINING & SKILLS HEMS Helicopter Crewmember’s Course; Full clean driving license; BBC Safeguarding Trust Modules; BBC Production Health and Safety Training; Advanced DBS certificate issued Nov 2013; HUET Certificate (Helicopter Underwater Escape Training)
KRISTINHADLAND
SERIES PRODUCER & PRODUCER DIRECTOR
[email protected] 0771 8111 600 www.kristinhadlandmedia.co.uk
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Continued)
• Producer Director (self-shooting) Israel’s Other Wall 1 X 45 minutes BBC Arabic/BBC World June 2011 A documentary about tensions in a mixed Israeli town. Moonstone Films. Exec Producers Tony Stark & Marc Edwards (BBC Arabic)
• Producer Director (self-shooting) My Life: Bionic Me 1 X 30 minutes CBBC
An observation documentary about children with prosthetic limbs. Blakeway North. Exec Producers Sarah Murch (Blakeway North) and Kez Margrie (CBBC)
I have produced and directed 6 editions of Panorama working with reporters Richard Bilton, Jeremy Vine and Raphel Rowe including a one hour special:
• Jill Dando’s Murder: The New Evidence 1 X 60 minutes 9pm BBC1. Presenter Raphael Rowe. Exec Producer Mike Lewis
I have produced and directed a Dispatches for Channel for and one hour prime time documentaries for ITV including:
• One Man and His Canoe: The John Darwin Story 1 X 60 minutes 9pm ITV1. True North Productions. Exec Producer Andrew Sheldon Winner RTS North East Best Single Factual Programme 2008
Between 2002 and 2006 I was a Producer Director on the BBC1 Network Current Affairs programme Real Story where I made dozens of films with presenter Fiona Bruce including:
• Soham: The Real Story 1 X 60 minutes 9pm BBC1 Exclusive access to police interviews with Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr broadcast on the night of conviction. Winner RTS North West Best Current Affairs Programme 2004.
Between 1992 and 1999 I made rapid progress in regional news, working first as a journalist, then news editor and then producer at ITV Yorkshire, BBC East and Granada from where I moved into network current affairs at the BBC.
EDUCATION
• Post–graduate Diploma in Radio and TV Journalism University of Central Lancashire • BSc (Hons) Managerial Sciences 2 (1) University of Bradford