LUBNA BHATTI Producer/Director Mobile: 07958 541 651 Email: [email protected]

A skilled BAFTA award winning and creative Producer/Director with 20 years’ experience of working in Broadcast and digital programming - devising, writing and delivering creative content. Experience of working on a range of programme genres including Factual, Factual Entertainment, constructed reality, property, live studio and Children’s Television. Experience in program development and casting.

Awards: 2006 BAFTA winner – Interactivity) Level Up (BBC 2)

Key Skills: • Directing single and multicamera crew • Self shooting (on a range of cameras) • Experience of taking shows through edit, single and multiple edit suits • Experience of working with Presenters and onscreen talent • Experience of leading teams, during pre-production and on location • Gallery Management (Live) Successful Development Producer. • Overseas experience Writing; scripts, PTC and proposals.

SELECTED CREDITS

Broadcast

Producer/Director: (Lambent Productions) Sounds of the City, (Insight) Producing, scripting and directing, an international DJ across 2 x 45min shows, as she embarks on a musical journey of discovery across a number of European cities. Inspired by sounds, the history and the spirit of the next emerging generation, the DJ’s journey is reflected in the creation of an evolving new dance track which captures the sounds of the city.

Producer/Director: (BBC) (multi-cam) Bargain Hunt, (BBC1) Producing, scripting and directing talent & contributors, across, 4 x 45min shows where two teams of amateur collectors have an hour to acquire the best bargains possible.

Producer/Director: (Studio Lambert) Four In A Bed, (Channel 4) I produced and directed, including scripting & editing, 5 x 30min shows following four B&B owners as they hosted & competed to win the establishment named best value for money.

Producer/Director: (Freeform Television) Coast V Country, (Channel 4) I produced and directed talent & contributors, including scripting & self-shooting, 7 x 60min shows following the journey of house hunters as they debate whether to buy a house and settle by the coast or in the country.

(Self-Shooting) PD: (Love Productions.) The Great British Bake Off Revisited, (BBC1) Self shot, (XF305), stories following a number of finalists.

Producer/Director: (Leopard Films US) House Hunters International, (US Network HGTV) PD on a factual-ent format for US broadcaster HGTV. Directing international crew, and contributors across the UK and Europe. Delivered 20 programmes. Producer/Director: (Pioneer Television) Extreme Homes, (HGTV, USA) I produced and directed a series of shoots across Spain and Scandinavia for US TV, exploring

1 the architecture and designs of amazing and unusual homes, also interviewing the architects and owners behind each design.

Location Director (Boundless Productions) The Apprentice, BBC1 Directing various shoots and liaising with the edits to get final footage required for a variety of episodes and sequences.

Multicamera Producer/Director: (12 Yard/ITV) Christmas Coach Trip Special (Channel 4 ) Sole Producer/ and Director on series of this Christmas special, on a journey across Scandinavia. Working across a range of roles encompassing Gallery, Story Producing and Location Director, while managing a shooting team of 4 APs and 2 PSC crews.

Self Shooting Location Director: (Dragonfly TV) Battle of the Brides: (Sky Living) Observational filming of brides as they set about planning their wedding. Role included casting, contributor management, location finding and shooting.

Day Producer / VT PD: (ITV Studios) The Royal Wedding; (TLC Discovery) (1 x 3hr live, recap show various VTs.) Producing VT packages and Day Producer across two live programmes. Negotiating access / casting contributors surrounding the royal couple. Liaising with celebrities in studio.

Producer/Director: Endemol Fame Academy; Behind the Scenes, (BBC1 / BBC 3) Produced the BBC Three weekly update show and directed VT packages for both the main series and update programme.

Shooting Director: (Princess Productions) Model Behaviour, (Channel 4 ) Pre-Production, (including casting), Producing storylines and filming actuality & interviews, also managed House cameras and Vision Desk.

Shooting Director: (Maverick TV) The Million Pound Hoax (Sky 1) Undercover factual-format series. Shooting on location, both overt and covert filming.

Studio Producer/Director: (RTE) The Den, (RTE) Produced daily live studio programme, developing & delivering changes to the format to keep it fresh and bringing new onscreen talent to the network for RTE.

Studio Producer (Live) (BBC) Level Up: BBC TWO (2006 BAFTA winner - Interactivity) Producing the daily live interactive morning show across a 22 week run. Role included producing & managing studio team, briefing presenters, liaising and working with departmental heads and managing budgets.

Producer (Live): (Endemol) Comic Relief does Fame Academy: (BBC ONE ) Responsible for producing a daily live 30min show covering the reality from the Fame Academy, combined with games, guests & items. I produced & managed the production team, oversaw VTs, wrote scripts, liaised & worked with presenters, dept. heads and managed budgets.

Producer (Live OB): (Blaze TV) Control Freaks, (Nickelodeon) (5 x 2hr live OBs) Responsible for producing 5 daily live 2hr shows, all OBs where 30 children control the show content throughout each programme.

Series Producer: Selected credits inc. Disney Channel I Series Produced a number of projects and branded content and oversaw development through to post production on a range of Disney brands for the Disney network. Duties included hiring & managing all staff, casting talent, scripting, managing all schedules, liaising with my Execs & the many Disney depts and I also oversaw all delivery of programmes

Development Producer ( various) A successful Development Producer, winning commissions for both a range of independent Producers and in-house at the BBC, Disney and Blaze TV, BBC Two.

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