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The 48th British Documentary Awards will be hosted by Sara Pascoe. The ceremony will take place on Thursday, 12 November at 7pm GMT on The Grierson Trust’s YouTube channel.

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t is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2020 British Judging these awards is a painstaking and time-consuming Documentary Awards, albeit in a very different form process. Our thanks go to the reviewers who made sure each Ithis year. There has never been a more important entry was given fair consideration and to the judges who viewed time to celebrate the achievements of our wonderful the shortlist and chose the winners. As always there were many industry. We have seen the pivotal role the documentary vigorous debates but the one thing everybody agreed was that the standard was higher than ever. plays in times of crisis, whether that be a global pandemic or the of racism on communities As a small charity we rely on our sponsors to make these awards throughout the world. Congratulations to all of the possible. We are hugely grateful to all those organisations who nominees who made the shortlist from our highest ever have loyally honoured their commitments despite facing financial number of entries. wish I could toast you in person! challenges. A big thank you to our headline sponsor for the third year running, All3Media. Our thanks also go to the category Covid-19 and the lockdown have had a devastating impact on sponsors: BBC, BFI Doc Society Fund, , Channel 5, the television sector, but it has been heartening to see the way Discovery, Envy, , Real Stories, Sargent-Disc, Storm, The the creative community has risen to the challenges it presented, Open University, The Rumi Foundation, Warner Bros Television overcoming so many obstacles. Many have played their part Production UK and YouTube Originals. Thank you to Televisual, The in supporting freelancers who have faced significant hardship, British Council, The Talent Manager and The Kit Room, too. Your but I would particularly like to single out Donna Taberer who support through this challenging time is much appreciated and reacted so quickly to pull together free online training supported crucial to celebrating the creative talent at this year’s Griersons. by ScreenSkills and Adeel Amini who set The TV Mindset, highlighting issues around mental health and the way we should We are delighted to have secured one of the UK’s most outstanding improve working practices. The Film and TV Charity have also comedy talents to host this year’s awards, the writer and performer fulfilled an essential role, providing financial help for freelancers Sara Pascoe. Thanks to Sara and to our new digital broadcast who have fallen through the cracks of government support. I’m partners, Little Dot Studios for helping us to navigate the new delighted to say that they are our charity partners for this year’s waters of delivering the ceremony online. awards. Please donate if you can, and if you need their support don’t hesitate to contact them. It is my great privilege to be Chair of The Grierson Trust, and I would like to say thank you to the small team who make the awards and We also want to mark the strides taken towards a more diverse and Grierson DocLab outreach programme a reality. Special thanks go inclusive industry. Broadcasters and production companies have to our Managing Director, Jane Callaghan. Her attention to detail, been scrutinising their own unconscious biases and rethinking ability to cope with every challenge and passion for documentaries how to support more diverse talent both on-and off-screen. At are truly amazing. Thank you to my fellow Trustees, too, who give The Grierson Trust we have done the same. For the first time, we up so much of their time and lend their expertise to guide and have incorporated diversity and inclusion criteria into the awards promote The Trust. categories and will continue to build on this for future competitions. The Trustees decide the winner of the BBC Grierson Trustees’ The Trust’s outreach programme, Grierson DocLab, actively Award each year, and we are thrilled that the 2020 award goes to demonstrates our commitment to helping young people from filmmaker, Asif Kapadia. Celebrated for inventing his own genre of diverse backgrounds break into the documentary field. Now in its documentary and reaching a new by creating Britain’s ninth year, it is going from strength to strength under the wonderful biggest box-office documentary hits, Asif thoroughly deserves this leadership of Yen Yau. Although we had to move the selection accolade. process and training online this year, the 2020 trainees embraced the course with enthusiasm and great commitment. We are sure Wherever and whenever you are watching the awards, I hope you they all have bright futures ahead of them, as our ever-growing enjoy them. Let’s come together virtually to celebrate excellence network of Grierson DocLab Alumni continues to demonstrate. and congratulate all the nominees and the winners!

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2 GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS Our host, Sara Pascoe

Enormous thanks go to our awards host, award-winning comedian, actress and writer, Sara Pascoe.

Sara is well-known for her regular appearances on television panel shows such as , QI, Have I Got For You and Would I Lie to You and she has also played guest roles in comedies such as Being Human, and W1A. She is currently starring in her self-penned comedy, Out of Her Mind for BBC Two alongside Fiona Button and Juliet Stevenson.

She regularly tours as a stand-up, has played seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe and her solo stand-up special LadsLadsLads was filmed by the BBC at the Palladium, following a sell-out nationwide tour and West End run.

Sara co-hosted the BBC Two travelogue Travelling Blind with Amar Latif and will present the upcoming travel series Last Woman on Earth – also for the BBC. She is the host of Guessable (Comedy Central) and Comedians Giving Lectures (Dave).

As a writer, Sara is the author of the critically acclaimed book Animal and ’ Best Seller Sex Power Money for which she also created the companion podcast.

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GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS 3 THE CATEGORIES Discovery BEST NATURAL HISTORY DOCUMENTARY YouTube Originals BEST ENTERTAINING DOCUMENTARY Envy BEST SINGLE DOCUMENTARY – DOMESTIC The Rumi Foundation BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT All3Media BEST STUDENT DOCUMENTARY BFI Doc Society Fund BEST CINEMA DOCUMENTARY Channel 5 BEST HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY Storm BEST ARTS OR MUSIC DOCUMENTARY The Open University BEST SINGLE DOCUMENTARY – INTERNATIONAL Warner Bros. TV Production UK BEST DOCUMENTARY PRESENTER Real Stories BEST AFFAIRS DOCUMENTARY Sargent-Disc BEST SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY BBC GRIERSON TRUSTEES’ AWARD Channel 4 BEST CONSTRUCTED DOCUMENTARY SERIES Netflix DOCUMENTARY SERIES

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4 GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS Discovery BEST NATURAL HISTORY DOCUMENTARY

Seven Worlds, One Planet: The Story of Plastic Tigers: Hunting the The Last Igloo Antarctica Traffickers Deia Schlosberg, Kyle Cadotte, Christian Collerton, Will Grayburn, Jonny Keeling, Fredi Devas, Dave Megan Ponder, Stiv Wilson, Tony Laura Warner, Jo Prichard, Guy Joe Evans, Neil Crombie, Adam Pearce, Abigail Lees, Michael Becker Hale & Brian Wilson. A Pale Blue Creasey, Monica Garnsey, Anna Simons & Mick Duffield for Swan & Scott Alexander for BBC Studios Dot Media production for The Story Murphy & Orlando Von Einsiedel for Films Natural History Unit of Stuff Project in association with Grain Media BBC Four BBC One React to Film BBC Two Discovery This film tells the story of a typical On the islands that fringe the Aldo Kane, former Marine, day in the life of an Inuit hunter in Antarctic continent, albatross chicks The Story of Plastic takes a investigates illegal tiger farms Greenland, as he travels across are hit by the full of climate sweeping look at the man-made feeding the demand for banned the stunning arctic landscape with change. In the Southern Ocean that crisis of plastic and its worldwide tiger products. his dog sled, fishes through the surrounds it, leopard seals stalk consequences. Spanning three sea ice, and finally builds an igloo. young penguins and hundreds of continents, the documentary Documenting the ingenious craft of whales gather in the greatest feeding features original animation and first- igloo-building before it’s too late, spectacle ever seen. These waters person accounts of the unfolding this film is an extraordinary and and the life within them absorb twice emergency, revealing the disastrous poetic sensory immersion in the as much carbon as the Amazon consequences of the flood of landscape of ice and snow; an elegy rainforest every year. It may be plastic smothering ecosystems and to a world that is melting away. remote, but we are just beginning poisoning communities around the to understand that what happens in world – and the global movement Antarctica affects us all. rising up in response.

GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS 5 YouTube Originals BEST ENTERTAINING DOCUMENTARY

The Misadventures of The Dog House – Love is Blind – Tiger King: Murder, Romesh Ranganathan: Episode 3 Episode 3 Mayhem and Madness – Episode 2 Nick Mirsky, Anna Llewellyn, Production team at Kinetic Content Romesh Ranganathan, Emily Hudd, Morgana Pugh, Claire Parry, Katie Netflix Rebecca Chaiklin, Eric Goode, Chris Morgan Roberts, Chris Cottam & Brimblecombe & Tom Bowman for Smith, Doug Abel, Dylan Hansen- Andy Linton for Rumpus Media Five Mile Films Nick and Vanessa Lachey host this Fliedner & Nicholas Biagetti BBC Two Channel 4 social experiment where single for Goode Films Production in men and women look for love and association with Library Films & For most of his adult life, the only A new multi-camera rig series set get engaged, all before meeting in Article 19 Films news coming out of Zimbabwe has inside Wood Green, The Animals person. Netflix been bad news. , Charity, in which homeless dogs are the eviction of the white farmers matched with hopeful dog owners. This documentary series explores and a general aura of danger have The programme captures the highs big cat breeding and its bizarre combined to make Zimbabwe a and lows of the human-dog dating underworld, populated by eccentric no-go zone in the eyes of the world. experience. characters that must be seen to be Now, with Mugabe finally gone, Rom believed. is travelling around the country to find out if Brits should be holidaying here once more.

6 GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS Envy BEST SINGLE DOCUMENTARY – DOMESTIC

The Family Secret Tell Me Who I Am War in the Blood Suicidal: In Our Own Words

Anna Hall, Sally Ogden, Luke Production team at Lightbox Arthur Cary, Morgan Matthews, Rachel Harvie, David DeHaney, Rothery & Brian Woods for Netflix Ben Brown, Saskia Rusher & Emmanuel Ayettey Candour Productions Andrew Phillips for Minnow Films & Iain Pettifer for Proper Content Channel 4 Alex wakes up from a coma having BBC Two Channel 5 forgotten everything. The only thing Kath had a secret she couldn’t tell he does know is that the person An intimate feature length One man takes his own life every anyone. She carried it for 25 years. next to him is his twin brother, documentary following two patients two hours. In a process never Her brother had raped her when Marcus. Alex relies on Marcus to through ground-breaking ‘first in- before seen on television, this she was seven and he was ten – it provide his memories, but the idyllic human’ trials for CAR T-cell therapy, a ground-breaking and unflinching lasted for four years. The Family childhood Marcus paints for his twin treatment described as the beginning documentary follows the unique Secret captures the moment when conceals a dark family secret. of the end of cancer. work carried out by the Central and Kath and her brother Rob enter a North-West London Mental Health restorative justice meeting where Not allowed to meet, Graham Trust and the stories of six men, who the truth is laid bare and they face (53) and Mahmoud (18) are have 20 suicide attempts between what happened for the first time nevertheless bound together by them. with their mum as witness. their commitment to the treatment and their faith in the science. Each of the men tell their story in a Terminally ill, the trial represents unique and intimate moment – the their only option. How do their ages hours, days and weeks of their and life experiences affect their unfolding suicidal episodes. physical and emotional response?

GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS 7 The Rumi Foundation BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Lost & Found That Joke Isn’t Funny Witness: The Mortician Country Girl Anymore of Manila Orlando von Einsiedel & Harri Ellen Evans & Pearl Doughty-White Grace for National Geographic Hannah Currie & Beth Allan for Leah Borromeo, Laura Shacham, for BFI Doc Society Documentary Films Presents, in Forest of Black & SDI – Bridging Katharine Round, James Scott, Open City Docs Film Festival association with The Nobel Prize, a the Gap Joshua Reyles & Jamie Perera for Rideback & Grain Media Production Edinburgh International Film Disobedient Films & Lillith’s benefits have been cut, National Geographic Festival Witness threatening the thing in her life Doc/Fest that gives it shape and purpose: A brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing Can Lindsay’s love for her husband her relationship with a troubled yet and violence perpetrated by the Paul sustain her through the trauma Orly Fernandez manages and beloved horse. Fleeing a difficult Myanmar military has driven more of his brain injury, which leaves him lives at Eusebio’s – a 24-hr funeral past and struggling with rural than 700,000 Rohingya from their in a perpetual loop of memory loss parlour in Manila. His relationships poverty, she must take matters homes, separating thousands of and joke telling? with clients and the journalists he into her own hands, defying families from loved ones along the meets daily colour the empathy expectations and rising above the way. Lost & Found is an inspiring and contempt he holds for drug judgement of others. story of humanity and heroism in the war victims who, like him, are world’s largest refugee camp, that struggling to survive. With intimate follows Kamal Hussein, a Rohingya access, this film gives us a deeper refugee who has dedicated his life to understanding of Rodrigo Duterte’s reuniting children with their parents. presidency and war-on-drugs.

A focus towards identifying talent and nurturing young people with the potential to be future leaders.

The Rumi Foundation’s mission is to guide talented young people towards having their own space to think, to achieve their potential and realise their dreams.

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J13509_GRIERSON_AWARDS_2020_CORPORATE_AD_AW.indd 1 21/10/2020 09:36 All3Media BEST STUDENT DOCUMENTARY

Bananas Bringing Home the Blubber Inside a Marriage Miss Curvy

Sara Montoya Sepulveda, Mel Molly Adams for London College Ben Cheetham, Margred Pryce, Ghada Eldemellawy & Gareth Pugh Barnes, Rachel Roberts, Ethan of Communication Adam Spek & Ed Rousseau for for NFTS Jeffrey, Breen Turner & Marco University/College screening NFTS University/College screening Valerio Caminiti for NFTS University/College screening University/College screening A vulnerable portrayal of a When Uganda announces its Greenlandic seal hunter, and his Shilpa and Dipak have been married first-ever beauty pageant for plus- The humble banana is the cheapest, journey through pain, loss and for 10 years. But a recent event at size women, schoolteacher and most popular fruit in the world, addiction to a life of fulfilment on the home has forced them to separate. single mother Namukasa Mariam but at what cost? This film takes a Arctic Ocean. Now they are left questioning, when seizes the opportunity. Hoping to sardonic look at how life is impacted things go wrong, what can hold a gain strength by confronting past by boom and bust capitalism. family together. traumas (and her abusive ex- husband), she soon finds herself surrounded by national controversy, fierce rivalry and extravagant characters. Exploring timeless yet contemporary issues within a uniquely African context, Miss Curvy takes viewers on Mariam’s unforgettable journey through the extraordinary world of East African plus-size beauty pageantry.

GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS 9 BFI Doc Society Fund BEST CINEMA DOCUMENTARY

For Sama Midnight Family

Waad al Kateab, Ed Watts, Nevine Production team at Higher Ground , Ljubomir Luke Lorentzen & Kellen Quinn Mabro, Ben de Pear, Siobhan Productions & Participant Media for Stefanov & Atanas Georgiev General theatrical release Sinnerton & George Waldrum for Netflix General theatrical release Channel 4 News & ITN Productions General theatrical release In Mexico City’s wealthiest for Channel 4 & PBS Frontline The last female bee-hunter in neighbourhoods, the Ochoa General theatrical release In this documentary, hopes soar Europe must save the bees family runs a private ambulance, when a Chinese company reopens and return the natural balance competing with other for-profit EMTs A love letter from a young mother to a shuttered factory in Ohio. But a in Honeyland, when a family of for patients in need of urgent help. her daughter, the film tells the story culture clash threatens to shatter an nomadic beekeepers invade her of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five American dream. land and threaten her livelihood. years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her.

Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice- whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much. ¡Viva la docs! BFI DOC SOCIETY FUND BEST CINEMA DOCUMENTARY The award will recognise the creative ingenuity that brings the art of non-fiction to life in the most potent and impactful way on-screen. BFI Doc Society is proud to partner with The Grierson Trust, and support a training programme for Fund grantees.

Congratulations to the nominees.

10 GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARYBFI DOC AWARDS SOCIETY FUND BEST CINEMA DOCUMENTARY

The award will recognise the creative ingenuity that brings the art of non fiction to life in the most potent and impactful way on-screen. Doc Society is proud to partner with the Grierson Trust, and introduce a training programme for Fund grantees.

Congratulations to the nominees. Channel 5 BEST HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY

Apollo 11 Jade: The Reality Star Who A House Through Time – Changed Britain – Episode 1 Episode 1 Todd Douglas Miller, Thomas Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht, Petersen, Evan Krauss & Stephen Sara Bolder, Howard Gertler, Priya Robert Coldstream, Clare Cameron, Eleanor Scoones, Katie Greening, Slater for Statement Pictures Swaminathan & Tonia Davis for A Justin Badger, Jane Greaves & Justin Badger, Mary Crisp, Maxine General theatrical release Higher Ground & Rusted Spoke Edmund Coulthard for Blast! Films Watson & David Olusoga for Twenty Production in association with Little Channel 4 Twenty Productions Crafted from a newly discovered Punk, JustFilms & Ford Foundation BBC Two trove of 65mm footage and more Netflix Jade Goody wasn’t the first Reality than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued TV star – but she was the biggest. David Olusoga explores the audio, Apollo 11 takes us straight to A ground-breaking summer The most loved. The most hated. remarkable history of an 18th the heart of NASA’s most celebrated camp galvanises a group of teens Earning millions from the tabloids Century sea captain’s house in mission – the one that first put with disabilities to help build a and branded products she seemed Guinea Street . He discovers men on the moon. Immersed in movement, forging a new path unstoppable – but flew too close stories of slavery, piracy, an the perspectives of the astronauts, toward greater equality. to the sun and became Britain’s abandoned baby, a notorious Mission Control and the millions of most loathed woman. A dark fairy political writer and a runaway black spectators on the ground, we vividly tale, Jade shines a light onto the servant. experience those momentous days battleground of class politics and and hours in 1969 when humankind social change in Britain in the early took a giant leap into the future. part of this century.

GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS 11 Storm BEST ARTS OR MUSIC DOCUMENTARY

Imagine... The Black Godfather Show Me the Picture: Terms and Conditions: Edna O’Brien: The Story of Jim Marshall A UK Drill Story Fearful and Fearless Reginald Hudlin, Nicole Avant, Byron Phillips, Nelson George, Alfred George Bailey, Adam Brian Hill, Kandise Abiola, Katie Katy Homan, Tanya Hudson, Jude Catrin Rodgers & Andrew Fried Biskupski, Ian Arber, Bailiff, Fraser T Smith, Stuart Briggs Suggett & Alan Yentob for BBC for Boardwalk Pictures & Hudlin Tatiana Kennedy, Amelia Davis & & Andre Johnson for Century Films Studios Entertainment Nicolas Sampson YouTube Originals BBC One Netflix for Bailey Kennedy Production, Modern Films The film is an examination of drill In 1960, great literary talent Edna This documentary follows the life General theatrical release music and the association it has with O’Brien published her revolutionary of Clarence Avant, the ultimate, knife crime in the UK. In examining debut novel The Country Girls, uncensored mentor and behind-the- An outsider with attitude, Show the links between this musical genre which broke down social and scenes rainmaker in music, film, TV Me the Picture: The Story of Jim and violence, we went beneath sexual barriers for women and was and politics. Marshall chronicles the infamous the surface and engaged with the then banned in her native country photographer’s life behind and drill community to understand their of Ireland. She now continues to outside the camera. A child of motivations. We commissioned five produce some of the most urgent immigrants and a life battling inner drill artists to write and record an work of her unparalleled career. demons, Jim fought his way to original track which would help to In this honest and engaging become one of the most trusted dispel some of the myths around documentary, Alan Yentob meets mavericks behind a lens throughout drill music. Edna O’Brien to discuss sex, books 60’s history, capturing the most and a lifetime of defiance. iconic figures in music history from Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones, to the infamous image of Jimi Hendrix burning his guitar.

12 GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS The Open University BEST SINGLE DOCUMENTARY – INTERNATIONAL

The Day California Burned Crip Camp The Great Hack Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Sarah Waldron, Fiona Stourton, Dan Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht, Production team at Weinstein Edge, Ella Newton & Jane McMullen Sara Bolder, Howard Gertler, Priya A Noujaim Films Production & an for Brook Lapping Productions & Swaminathan & Tonia Davis for A othrs Production Ursula Macfarlane, Simon Chinn, BBC Current Affairs London Higher Ground & Rusted Spoke Netflix Jonathan Chinn, Poppy Dixon & BBC Two Production in association with Little Andy R Worboys for Lightbox Punk, JustFilms & Ford Foundation Explore how a data company named BBC Two On 8 November 2018, a megafire Netflix Cambridge Analytica came to swept through northern California. symbolise the dark side of social A devastating exposé of the In its path was the town of Paradise. A ground-breaking summer media in the wake of the 2016 US meteoric rise and shocking fall of Within four hours, around 30,000 camp galvanises a group of teens presidential election. the movie mogul made during the people had lost their homes. It was with disabilities to help build a year before he was convicted for the deadliest fire in America for a movement, forging a new path rape and sexual assault. At the heart century. Drawing on hundreds of toward greater equality. of the film are his victims’ painfully hours of footage, this film tells the frank accounts of his abuse, of the chilling and dramatic account of that damage it did to their lives, and the day. complicity of the Hollywood machine. Untouchable makes clear the vital importance of speaking out and of the entertainment industry’s long overdue cultural reckoning.

GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS 13 Warner Bros Television Production UK BEST DOCUMENTARY PRESENTER

DAVID OLUSOGA for The EMILY MAITLIS STACEY DOOLEY MOBEEN AZHAR for Unwanted: The Secret for Prince Andrew & the for Stacey Dooley: Hometown: A Killing Windrush Files Epstein Scandal: The On the Psych Ward Interview Forest & 7 Wonder Uplands Television True Vision BBC Three BBC Two BBC Newsnight BBC Three BBC Two Award-winning journalist Mobeen David Olusoga opens secret For three weeks Stacey joins staff Azhar moves back to his hometown government files to show how the In a Newsnight special, Emily Maitlis on the wards at Springfield mental of Huddersfield to cover the death ‘Windrush Scandal’ and the ‘hostile interviews the Duke of York as health hospital to see how they deal of Mohammed Yassar Yaqub, but environment’ for black British he speaks for the first time about with the of an increasing realises that there is a much bigger immigrants has been 70 years in his relationship with convicted number of young people struggling story in town. the making. The film features Sarah paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and to cope. Working alongside O’Connor, Anthony Bryan and Judy allegations which have been made the frontline mental health Griffith. Settled here legally since against him over his own conduct. professionals, Stacey also hears childhood, they were re-classified from the young patients themselves as illegal immigrants by new during moments of crisis. regulations. Unable to show proof of their nationality status, they lost jobs, savings and their health, facing deportation back to countries they could barely remember.

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Real Stories BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS DOCUMENTARY

Al Jazeera Investigations: Sex for Grades Undercover with the Clerics: Undercover: Inside China’s Diplomats for Sale ’s Secret Sex Trade Digital Gulag Kiki Mordi, Ogechi Obidiebube, Deborah Davies, Kevin Hirten, Chiara Francavilla, Charlie Paddy Wells, Mais Al-Bayaa, Nawal Robin Barnwell, Gesbeen Nicholas Dove, Craig Pennington, Northcott, Andy Bell & Marc Perkins Al Maghafi, Monica Garnsey, Chris Mohammad, Guy Creasey, Simon Emmanuel Panaretos & Phil Rees for BBC World Service Mitchell & Gary Beelders for BBC Russell & David Henshaw for for BBC Africa Eye News Hardcash Productions BBC News Arabic ITV Al Jazeera Female students in Nigeria and have been complaining In this undercover investigation, ITV goes undercover into China’s Diplomats for Sale exposes a global of sexual harassment by their Nawal Al Maghafi exposes a secret secretive Xinjiang region. The trade in diplomatic appointments university professors for decades. world of sexual exploitation in Chinese government is holding an that has helped Caribbean politicians Now, in this investigative Iraq. She uncovers how some Shia estimated million or more Muslims retain power and provided immunity documentary, local journalist Kiki clerics are grooming and exploiting in detention camps – the largest to criminals. Broadcast shortly before Mordi goes undercover to capture vulnerable girls, leaving them incarceration of an ethnic group a general election in Dominica, the evidence of this behaviour first-hand trapped in prostitution. A young since WW2. This unprecedented documentary shows how the leaders by uncovering shocking abuse in widow alleges that a cleric sold her investigation reveals how twelve of both main political parties are ’s top universities. to his friends in a prostitution , million other Muslims are living in a willing to accept secret campaign while secret filming reveals another human laboratory where the world’s contributions from foreigners cleric conducting a so-called most invasive surveillance state seeking the privileges of diplomatic ‘pleasure marriage’ with a girl he is being created to control them, status. believes to be only 13. destroying their cultural identity and creating technologies that are being exported to authoritarian states worldwide.

GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS 15 Sargent-Disc BEST SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY

War in the Blood The Big Picture – Einstein’s Quantum Mad Cow Disease: The Great The World According to AI: Riddle British Beef Scandal Arthur Cary, Morgan Matthews, The Bias in the Machine Ben Brown, Jamie Lochhead, David Dugan, Will Lorimer, James Gold, Liesel Saskia Rusher & Andrew Phillips for Sanjiev Johal, Cori Crider, Nicholas Clementine Cheetham & Alastair Evans & Pamela McIntyre for RAW Minnow Films Muirhead, Ryan Kohls, Sean Griffin Auld for Windfall Films BBC Two BBC Two & Denise Lister for Al Jazeera BBC Four English Since 1996, almost 200 people An intimate feature length Al Jazeera Einstein’s Quantum Riddle tells the have died from vCJD, whilst the documentary following two patients remarkable story of perhaps the cattle disease BSE has been through groundbreaking ‘first in- Artificial Intelligence is changing strangest phenomenon in science responsible for the death of over human’ trials for CAR T-cell therapy, how we live and how our lives are – Quantum Entanglement. It’s a four million cows. It has cost the a treatment described as the governed, from predictive policing story of mind-bending concepts and NHS over a billion pounds. Beneath beginning of the end of cancer. and criminal sentencing to loan brilliant experiments, which lead us the statistics is a story of greed, assessments and health care. Far to a profound new understanding of corruption and catastrophic political Not allowed to meet, Graham from creating a brave new world, reality. misjudgement. With access to all the (53) and Mahmoud (18) are AI is replicating and amplifying the politicians, scientists and families nevertheless bound together prejudices of the world as it already who have been defined by this by their commitment to the is – unjust and unequal. We show epidemic, this film pieces together treatment and their faith in the how people of colour and minority a forgotten chapter of our recent science. Terminally ill, the trial communities from China to the US are history. represents their only option. the guinea pigs and victims in a world How do their ages and life according to AI. experiences affect their physical and emotional response?

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BBC GRIERSON TRUSTEES’ AWARD Asif Kapadia

Credited as the filmmaker “As a result, his films aren’t works across both factual who reinvented the just a hit with reviewers, but and fictional filmmaking, documentary form, Asif audiences too – making him he has undoubtedly made Kapadia is a multi-award Britain’s biggest box-office- a huge contribution to winner with a trophy cabinet breaking documentarian. documentary filmmaking as showcasing an Oscar, Not content with having both an art form and as a five BAFTAs, a European invented his own genre way of attracting new and Film Award, Sundance of documentary, Asif diverse audiences. Beyond and Grammy Awards as continues to innovate Asif’s undeniable talents well as a Grierson for Best and challenge himself as as a director, he is also Arts Documentary for his evidenced in his current incredibly supportive of the landmark, Amy – one in exploration of XR with his arts, giving his time, advice his acclaimed trilogy Amy, next project, Laika. We have and support freely. He also Senna and Diego Maradona, always considered The offers proof and hope that focusing on the rise and fall Grierson Trustees’ Award as success for working-class of child geniuses and the recognition of a filmmaker’s filmmakers of colour is an price of fame. continued excellence and attainable goal. He is truly outstanding contribution to an inspiration.” Chair of The Grierson documentary. Asif Kapadia Trust, Lorraine Heggessey is at the height of his Asif is presently directing sums up the Trustees’ creative powers and we and executive producing decision: “The genius of wait with great anticipation an Apple TV documentary Asif is that he manages to to see where he will take us series with Executive really get under the skin and viewers next.” Producers Oprah Winfrey of his subjects, drawing and Prince Harry focusing viewers in and making you Presenting Asif with his on mental health and well- feel like you know them award is his long-term being. And he recently personally but with such friend, colleague, and announced a move into XR, a sophisticated use of Home’s Artistic Director creating a film about Laika, archive footage to paint for Film and Culture, Jason the Russian space dog. them anew. His works Wood said: “I can think of are a masterclass in the few people more deserving subtle art of slowly peeling than the honour of this away the layers until their award than my friend Asif inner soul is laid bare. Kapadia. A filmmaker who GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS 17 Channel 4 BEST CONSTRUCTED DOCUMENTARY SERIES

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he Grierson Trust supports new documentary and factual talent through its Grierson DocLab outreach T scheme. Each year, we recruit UK-based young people aged 18-25 to take part in a year-long programme of intensive training, a shooting and editing bootcamp, mentorship, bursary supported industry placements, a trip to Sheffield Doc/Fest and more.

This year, of course, things have been a little different. However, with Thanks to our trainers, Carol Nahra who led the programme, with the crucial help of our donors and supporters, we have carved out a input from Deborah Aston on the art of pitching your documentary new pandemic-proof version of DocLab for our 2020 trainees. A big idea. Covering different formats, platforms, styles and approaches thanks to our headline supporters, Netflix and The Rank Foundation to documentaries, the trainees packed in a huge amount of learning. and thank you to The Rumi Foundation for their generosity. Thank We also learned a lot about them through their respective pitch ideas, you as well to indies Blast! Films, Dragonfly TV, Lightbox, Minnow favourite docs and questions about making it in a fiercely competitive Films, Plimsoll Productions, Renegade Pictures, The Garden, Wise industry. Owl Films/All3Media, RAW and 72 Films. Your support of DocLab is essential to us helping young documentary talent find their footing in Thank you to our industry colleagues and friends who gave their time our industry. to speak to the trainees during the online training week – and also to those who have subsequently done so for the autumn programme of After a record number of applications to the scheme throughout talks and training sessions open to DocLabbers. A special thanks to January and February this year, the Grierson team were faced our alumni Holly Lubran, Calum Bateman, Poppy Goodheart, Rashida with the difficult decision to delay the assessment process and Josiah and Mal Senanayake who joined us during the training week to selection day for recruiting our 2020 cohort. Mimicking the pattern give the group a taste of the years to come in their factual careers. of lockdown, a short delay turned into a slightly lengthier one with continuing safety measures and travel restrictions in place. Though Other industry colleagues have also volunteered their time to act with new restrictions came a new approach to DocLab as the as mentors for our trainees and alumni. We were blown away by the decision was taken to go online. number of you who got in touch and offered your support. Thank you.

We managed to whittle down our interview shortlist to 15 super A big thanks also goes to our partners Clear Cut Pictures, Blueberry talented, creative and enthusiastic budding young documentary Creatives, The Talent Manager and The Kit Room who have makers. And so, the usually -based residential training supported the trainees by delivering in-depth sessions in post- week transferred to Zoom, where our new cohort joined us – during production, offering discounted kit hire and conducting thorough the hottest week in August – for an intensive week covering all things one-to-one career development sessions with them. We couldn’t do documentary. this without you.

22 GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS In addition to our DocLab training and the continued programme Accelerator programme and Rowan Ings (2016) has been awarded a of autumn speakers, at the start of lockdown we set up regular Scottish Documentary Institute Bridging the Gap development grant. video calls with our network of Grierson DocLab Alumni. The sessions aimed to provide a space to share experiences, resources, Tammie Ash (2018) along with one of our 2020 trainees, Erin Michael, opportunities and of course documentary recommendations. was selected for Edinburgh TV Festival’s The Network scheme. Many of our Trustees and other industry contacts dropped in on Tammie is also now working on Lime Pictures production, Celebs these sessions to offer support, boost morale and provide as much Go Dating. Eloise Millard (2018) worked as a production assistant reassurance as possible in a challenging time for all. for Renegade Pictures’ Channel 4 doc Lost at Sea and has been a VT Researcher for 999: On the Fontline, charting the experience of We’d like to commend our alumni on their resilience and paramedics working during the pandemic. determination to continue working through unprecedented times, supporting each other and meeting the ongoing challenges of a Mal Senanayake and Emily McNally (2019) have both worked on precarious TV landscape. The Trust is so proud of what they have Newcastle-set BBC Three reality show, Angels of the North and achieved. adapted to new COVID safety measures after restrictions lifted in July. Plus, in true lockdown fashion, several of our DocLab Alumni For example, Poppy Goodheart (from 2013’s DocLab) is working for have worked remotely on the research for Life in a Day, a YouTube Nick Mirsky’s Five Mile Films in Bristol. She is currently developing an Originals documentary directed by Kevin Macdonald. idea for Channel 4’s First Cut strand, which aims to showcase original and bold documentaries from first-time directors. Although 2020 has been a difficult year for many, our DocLab network included, we would like to say again how impressed we are Michael Jenkins (2012) directed one of Channel 4’s Take Your Knee with their tenacity and the sense of community and support amongst Off My Neck shorts named Shadow of Slavery and his Bristol-based all the iterations of DocLab. We are happy to say we will continue production company Blak Wave, made We Are Not the Virus as part to expand this network with another cohort of Grierson DocLab of the Culture in Quarantine collection on the BBC. trainees in 2021, plus two new specialist schemes for production management and editing training; our Grierson DocLab in Focus Cherish Oteka (2016) participated in Sheffield Doc/Fest’s panel schemes. tackling racism in the film and TV industry. She is also a content strategist working across broadcast TV and digital, currently Watch this space. overseeing the output for the UK’s leading LGBT+ content creator, Pink News.

Images: page 22: top – 2020 Grierson DocLab trainees; Dershe Samaria’s (2013) production company, Nuwave Pictures bottom – the trainees and Grierson team’s online session with Louis Theroux; has been selected for The TV Collective and Channel 4’s Indie page 23: top – online introduction with Lorraine Heggessey.

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Lara Akeju is ITV Mand and His Shoes, was Ben Brown is a documentary the most successful feature David DeHaney is Creative Commissioning Editor for released globally in 2020. film editor barely nudging documentaries of recent Director of Proper Content. Daytime Entertainment. 20 years in the job. years including He is an award-winning Previously in commissioning Zac Beattie is The Garden’s and . director and executive at Channel 5, she has also Head of Documentaries. Carl Callam works across producer who has held held senior roles at Channel 4 Credits as an exec and BBC One, BBC Two and Elizabeth Clough was a senior positions in the and directed documentaries filmmaker include Gun No. 6, BBC Three. He is currently producer at the BBC working UK’s leading production and factual series for the BBC 24 Hours in Police Custody, working on an authored in News and Current Affairs houses, including Love and other major broadcasters. Our Borough, Keeping Britain film about race by Leigh- and then Documentaries. She Productions, Nutopia, Victory, Alive, Make Me Normal and Anne Pinnock and the worked as a Commissioning Firecracker and the BBC. is The Trouble With Love & Sex. award-winning Hospital Editor at Channel 4, ran presenter of BBC News series. Recent commissions Mentorn Media’s Oxford David Devenney is Head at Six, Britain’s most include Models: Street to Ninder Billing is the Head office, before becoming a of Development in BBC watched news programme. Catwalk, HouseShare and of Specialist Factual at The freelance executive producer. Studios’ Documentary Unit, Before that George was Garden. Most recently she Shame in the Game. an award-winning foreign where he has developed created the twice BAFTA- Rob Coldstream is a correspondent. He is the Jamie Campbell is co- award-winning titles across nominated Operation Live director, executive producer author of two non-fiction founder and co-creative documentary, history and and is responsible for new and former Channel 4 books on Africa and director of Eleven. Recent arts including BBC Two’s specialist factual formats Commissioning Editor. multiculturalism. His first credits include Sex This Farming Life, The Flu and documentaries. She was Credits include The Trump novel is The Burning Land. previously Commissioning Education for Netflix. That Killed 50 Million and Show, Jade The Reality drama, Queers for BBC Four. Editor for Factual and Star Who Changed Britain, Toby Amies has not won any News at Channel 5. Mukti Jain Campion is awards. Nevertheless, he founder of Culture Wise. Last Days of Anne Boleyn, Poppy Dixon recently persists in making short and She trained at the BBC and Psychopath Night and The joined Sky as Director, Sreya Biswas is a Execution of Gary Glitter. long form documentaries Commissioning Editor in produced television and Documentaries and Factual, about art, time, death, love, radio documentaries for where she looks after Science and Natural History Louisa Compton is Head of and the glorious humanity at the BBC, overseeing a over 30 years. Currently she commissioning for Sky to be found amongst them. serves as a panel member News and Current Affairs Documentaries, Sky Crime number of series including and Sport at Channel 4. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life, for the Audio Content Fund and Sky Nature. Previously Ben Anthony is a director and is Chair of the Advisory The Diagnosis Detectives she was a Producer of feature known for documentaries Board of the Sir Lenny Henry Barnaby Coughlin is an and Animals With Cameras docs and factual television. on challenging subjects Centre for Media Diversity. executive producer at Label1 II. Formerly Sreya was an including BAFTA-winning and 2019 Grierson winner for Exec Producer at Naked, US. Andy Dunn is an executive filmsGrenfell and 7/7: Gurinder Chadha, OBE is a First Dates Hotel. Prior to that producer at ITN Productions. One Day In London. Ben filmmaker with an illustrious he directed documentaries Liz Bonnin is a science and He specialises in creative is currently making a body of work over 30 years. and fact ent series for all natural history broadcaster and original popular factual feature length film about She is known for directing the main broadcasters. who has presented such the Covid-19 pandemic. feature films Blinded by the formats, documentaries, programmes as Blue features and current affairs. Light, Viceroy’s House and Des Daniels is a producer Janey Ayoade is a Grierson- Planet Live and Bend It Like Beckham. in Plastic. She is currently director making character- winning documentary led docs, specialist factual Lucie Duxbury is an filmmaker known for amazing fronting What Planet Are Mandy Chang is the Executive Producer at We On?, a new BBC Podcast and current affairs films. access, observational docs Commissioning Editor of the Recent programmes include The Garden where she is and current affairs films. that explores our impact BBC’s feature documentary currently overseeing a new on the natural world. Ovie Soko: Life After She has worked across strand, Storyville. Recent Reality TV and Escaping series of 24 Hours in A&E. most platforms, has recently credits include One She previously worked as Jack Bootle is Head of Gangs: Death, Jail or founded Black Seed Films Child Nation, Welcome Redemption for the BBC. a producer/director across and is currently working on Commissioning for Science to Chechnya, The Fourth a range of fixed-rig, history and Natural History MTV’S True Life Crime series. Estate and The Trials of Rita Daniels is a and arts documentaries for at the BBC. Oscar Pistorius. She is also Commissioning Editor in the BBC and Channel 4. Ed Balls is a broadcaster, an award-winning filmmaker Georgia Braham is a Channel 4’s Documentaries writer and economist. A with two Grierson Awards. Liesel Evans is Creative Producer specialising in Department. She is across former MP and Cabinet Director of UK Factual at Minister, he now makes history documentaries. Harjeet Chhokar is a variety of returning series Currently working on the new including 24 Hours in A&E, RAW: an award-winning political and economic commissioning editor at company with a reputation documentaries. His interests BBC series Unforgotten (WT), Channel 4, working across the Educating series and First for producing high quality include learning , past credits include We’ll Documentaries and Specialist Dates as well as the first-time factual programming. She is cooking, sailing and Meet Again for PBS and The Factual. Recent commissions director’s strand, First Cut. currently overseeing a raft supporting Norwich City. Face of Britain for the BBC. include Is Covid Racist? and Sing it Loud. Before joining Guy Davies’ commissions of projects for all the key Yemi Bamiro is a British Russell Brand’s career the broadcaster, Harjeet include In broadcasters and SVODs. documentary director spans comedy, acting, was a series producer North Korea, the RTS- from London. Yemi has broadcasting and writing. across documentaries. winning Raped: My Story, Sara Evans is an award- directed documentary He is the author of the and 999: Critical Condition. winning documentary series films for a host of UK and New York Times bestseller, Simon Chinn is a double He was previously Head editor and series producer. US broadcasters, ranging Recovery: Freedom from our Academy Award and double of Documentaries at ITN Her recent credits include from the BBC, Channel 4, Addictions and his weekly BAFTA-winning producer Productions and Senior 24 Hours in Police Custody, Sky and VICELAND. Yemi’s podcast, Under the Skin is and co-founder of Lightbox. Executive Producer Hospital and Educating debut feature film, One available on Luminary. He is responsible for some of at Wall to Wall. Greater .

24 GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS Claire Ferguson has edited Craig Hassall is CEO of the commissioned Drowning in filmmaker and current include Bedlam and Kids documentaries such as Royal Albert Hall and prior Plastic and The Parkinson’s 2020: Field of Vision, On The Edge for Channel the award-winning Aileen: to this was CEO of Opera Drug Trial: A Miracle Cure? Firelight Documentary Lab, 4 and Agony & Ecstasy: A Life and Death of a Serial Australia. He’s also been John Brabourne Award Year with English National Killer and The End of the CEO of English National Rachel Johnson is a and Logan non-fiction Ballet for BBC Four. Line. Her directorial work Ballet, COO of Raymond journalist, author, and fellowship grantee. As a includes Destination Gubbay Ltd and consulted broadcaster who hosts former commissioner and Tom McDonald is the Unknown, nominated for a on cultural aspects of the LBC on Sunday evenings. Global Executive Producer Director of Factual for BBC Grierson Award in 2017. London 2012 Olympic Games. at VICE, she led a multi- Studios Productions. He Sophie Jones is an Executive award-winning international oversees three factual units, Amy Flanagan is Head of Paul Heaney co-founded Producer at Minnow Films. documentary team. currently in production with Documentaries, History Distributor Bossanova Prior to this her series close to 100 projects for the and Arts at BBC Studios. to work closer with the producing and directing Nicole Kleeman is an BBC, Channel 4, Discovery, Previously Co-Creative production community credits include Losing It: Our award-winning Exec and Apple TV+, Netflix and Director at Expectation and across co-development, Mental Health Emergency, MD of Firecrest Films. Her more. He was previously in Deputy Head of Factual at co-creation, co-production NHS Heroes: Fighting to credits include The Truth commissioning at the BBC. Channel 4, she commissioned and more. Previously Save Our Lives, Hospital About Amazon, Lifers The Murder Detectives, he founded unscripted and BAFTA-nominated Behind Bars and undercover Laura McNaught is an award- My Son the Jihadi and The distributor TCB Media Rights 24 Hours in A&E. investigations Inside winning producer with a Romanians Are Coming. and he also started Cineflix Facebook and The Truth background in current affairs Rights (née International). Asif Kapadia is a BAFTA, About Chlorinated Chicken. who is currently producing a Ashley Francis-Roy is a Academy Award, Grierson filmmaker from . In 2019 Lorraine Heggessey and Grammy-winning Michele Kurland is a feature-length documentary he was the winner of Channel is a trailblazing media director. He has directed Grierson, RTS and BAFTA- about the Covid-19 pandemic. 4’s prestigious First Cut executive who has held fiction and non-fiction, winning executive producer. Pitch. He’s recently produced some of television’s most his drama includes The Her credits include Gareth Jane Merkin is a multi-award- and directed two acclaimed demanding roles. She was Warrior and is best known Malone’s The Choir, winning freelance executive single films for Channel 4. the first female Controller for his trilogy of archive First Dates, First Dates and series producer in social of BBC One and former constructed biographical Hotel, The Apprentice issue documentary and Cate Hall is a Creative CEO of talkbackTHAMES. documentaries Senna, Amy and Junior Apprentice. current affairs programming, Director in the Documentary She’s an advisor to Channel and Diego Maradona. including Exodus: Our Unit at BBC Studios, she has 4’s Growth Fund. Emily Lawson is an Journey to Europe, Carry worked at 72 Films and Wall Marjorie Kaplan was executive producer and on Brussels: Inside the EU to Wall and has a background Danny Horan is Head of President of Global Content award-winning documentary and Shame in the Game. in history programming. Factual at Channel 4. Recent at Discovery. Currently Head maker behind multiple successes include Grayson’s of Faculty at Merryck & Co documentaries including Nick Metcalfe is an award- Monty Halls is a television Art Club, Jade, Barrymore, and a creative mentor for the Crime and Punishment, winning Executive Producer producer, travel writer, Snackmasters and The Dog Channel 4 Indie Growth Fund, Secret Life of 4, 5 and 6 at Arrow Media. Recent biologist, expedition leader, House. He is particularly she is also a member of the Year Olds and Supervet for credits include Apocalypse and presenter. He has been keen to work more across board of The Grierson Trust Channel 4, plus Reported Cow for Channel 4, America telling stories – many of them the nations and regions, and NED at ProSiebenSat1. Missing for BBC One. in Color for Smithsonian, rather tall – from around increase diversity on and and Body Cam for the world for thirty years. off screen, and increase the Liam Keelan is the VP for Jago Lee is Creative Director Investigation Discovery. number of female and black Original Production for Disney at Blakeway Productions. Oli Harbottlle is Head and ethnic minority directors. across the EMEA region. Previously founder and Felicity Morris is an award- of Distribution and He was formerly Director Managing Director at winning filmmaker and Acquisitions at James House is director of of Scripted Content at BBC Nerd, his credits include Head of US Documentary and is responsible for the Grierson and BAFTA- Studios and before that, How to Rob a Bank and Development at RAW where acquisitions and overseeing nominated first episode Controller of BBC Daytime. Orangutan Jungle School. she has both originated all film releases, which in of Thatcher: A Very British and produced a number recent years have included Revolution. Previous work Lizzie Kempton is an Jane Lush was a producer at of documentaries and Three Identical Strangers, includes : award-winning director. the BBC, becoming Controller series including, Don’t and Apollo 11. Rites of Passage, and the Films include Manchester BBC Daytime before heading F**k with Cats. She is BAFTA-winning first series Bomb: Our Story, The up Entertainment and currently directing her first Sarah Harris has been of One Born Every Minute. Case of Sally Challen and Comedy. She commissioned feature documentary. Deputy Head of Development recently she directed her hits including Strictly Come at RAW since 2018, working Bettany Hughes, FSA OBE is first film for Netflix. Prior Dancing, The Apprentice and Tanya Motie is a former on a broad range of factual an award-winning historian, to directing, Lizzie was a The Weakest Link. She was Channel Exec for BBC content for all the major author and broadcaster, producer on films How To Chair of BAFTA from 2016-18. UK broadcasters and specialising in international Die: Simon’s Choice and Chris One and Three and streaming platforms. history. She is Creative Packham: Asperger’s & Me. Nevine Mabro is Deputy Commissioning Exec Director of SandStone Global Editor of Channel 4 News for CBBC. Whilst in Michael Harte is a Productions and has written Fozia Khan is a and executive producer of newsgathering, she produced BAFTA-winning, Emmy- and presented over 50 TV Commissioning Editor for the Oscar-nominated feature the award-winning series nominated editor. He is and radio documentaries Documentaries at Channel documentary . What’s Left of Communism?. best known for editing for all major broadcasters in 4 where she oversees 24 Now retired, Tanya is a Three Identical Strangers the UK and North America. Hours in Police Custody and Francesca Maudslay is a diversity mentor and advisor. and Don’t F**k With Cats. more recently commissioned freelance BAFTA-nominated Craig Hunter is Creative Damilola: The Boy Next executive producer, Franny Moyle worked Neil Harvey is an award- Director, Factual at STV Door. She joined Channel 4 who works across both extensively for the BBC winning documentary Studios and responsible from BBC Two and prior to specialist factual and factual as a Creative Director and cinematographer. His work for its new factual and this, Fozia was an Executive entertainment projects. ultimately Commissioner spans the genre, from feature daytime slate. Formerly Lead Producer at The Garden. for Music and Arts, before docs for the likes of BBC, Commissioning Editor for Alice Mayhall is a BAFTA becoming a freelance Netflix and theatrical release. Specialist Factual and Natural Eloise King is an award- award-winning series executive in 2005. She is History at the BBC, Craig winning interdisciplinary producer. Her credits now a full-time writer.

GRIERSON 2020: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY AWARDS 25 Nina Nannar is the Arts include Between Life and The Yorkshire Ripper Files at the BBC and most recently Mysterious Murder of Nipsey Editor of ITV News, which Death, The Murder Trial, and Confronting Holocaust series produced the Netflix Hussle for BBC Three. she joined in 2002 from the Life and Death Row, Ugly Denial with David Baddiel. series Bad Boy Billionaires. BBC and where she covers Me and Anna: The Woman Stephen S. Thompson is a specialist arts and media Who Went To Fight ISIS. James Quinn is CEO of Big Victoria Silver is a freelance novelist, screenwriter and stories. She is also a reporter Wheel Film & Television and a documentary director and documentary filmmaker. on ITV’s On Assignment Terry Payne has been a Trustee of The Grierson Trust. executive producer. She Known for novels Toy documentary series. journalist for more than 40 mostly makes films for Soldiers, Missing Joe, Meet years, the last 20 of which Amol Rajan is a broadcaster Channel 4 and the BBC. Me Under The Westway Thandie Newton OBE is a have been spent at the Radio at the BBC. The corporation’s and No More Heroes and BAFTA and EMMY-winning Times commissioning the first Media Editor, he also Simon Singh worked his TV drama Sitting in actor well-known for roles magazine’s factual content. presents for , alongside John Lynch Limbo, he is also editor and in Beloved, Crash, Mission on Radio 2, and Radio 4; on the BAFTA-winning publisher of literary journal, Impossible 2, BBC drama, Diene Petterle is Darlow is a judge on MasterChef; documentary Fermat’s Last The Colverstone Review. Line of Duty and most Smithson’s creative and presented BBC Two Theorem, and then went recently HBO’s Westworld. director, where most documentary, How To Break on to write a book on the Kate Townsend is Director Activist and philanthropist, recently she exec’ed the Into the Elite. He used to be same subject. He has since of Original Documentaries she is board member critically acclaimed feature Editor of . written several international for Netflix. Recent projects for V-Day whose goal is documentary, In Cold Blood. bestselling science books. include the series Tiger King, to end violence against She was a commissioning is a journalist Don’t F**ck with Cats and women worldwide. editor in Specialist Factual at and broadcaster, who Sanjay Singhal is co-founder Bad Boy Billionaires and the the BBC and is a BAFTA and regularly presents the 1, 6 and of the factual indie, Voltage features, Dick Johnson is Emily Ng is a media Emmy-winning filmmaker. 10 o’clock news on BBC One. TV. He oversees a wide- Dead, FYRE: The Greatest industry professional She has presented many ranging slate including Ant Party That Never Happened and a keen enthusiast for Lucy Pilkington is the other BBC programmes from and Dec’s DNA Journey for and Tell Me Who I Am. media culture, dedicating founder and CEO of Milk Watchdog and to ITV, The British Tribe Next her career to supporting and Honey Productions. Panorama documentaries. Door for Channel 4, Inside Liz Tucker is an award- innovation within the media Throughout her distinguished The Factory for BBC Two winning documentary industry. Emily holds a BSc career as a commissioning Gagan Rehill is a feature and feature-documentary, executive producer and Economics from the London editor, executive producer documentary producer and One Deadly Weekend in director as well as the Chair School of Economics and and award-winning BAFTA-winning TV producer America for BBC Three. of Women in Film and TV, UK. MA Documentary Films programme maker, she of the 2019 series Louis from London College of has championed diversity Theroux: Altered States. Susan Spindler made Andy Whittaker is Founder Communication, UAL. of thought and vision. Before working across a scientific and medical and Chair of Dogwoof. He number of award-winning documentaries at the BBC founded the company in Fergus O’Brien has had an Katie Piper is a best‑selling documentaries, Gagan and was later Controller 2003 as a film distributor illustrious career in factual international author, had a career in marketing of Drama Production and and financier, with a focus as a producer/director and inspirational speaker, TV in-house at Channel 4. Deputy Director of Drama, on social issues and true an executive producer. presenter and charity Entertainment and Children’s. stories. Films include He’s now directing drama campaigner. Clare Richards is a Her first novel will be Apollo 11 and Free Solo. with credits that include documentary director with 13 published by Virago in 2021. the award-winning factual Alisa Pomeroy is a years’ experience of making is a journalist dramas, Against The Law Commissioning Editor for series and singles across Liana Stewart is a freelance and broadcaster who’s made and Mother’s Day. Documentaries at Channel broadcast TV. Her last film producer/director making around fifteen thousand 4. She commissioned What’s The Matter With observational documentaries. hours of radio and TV over Emeka Onono is an executive the multi-award-winning Tony Slattery? went out on Recent productions include the past 35 years. She’s producer and award-winning Jade: The Reality Star BBC Two’s Horizon strand. Black and Welsh, My First also an author, a registered director, known for Changed Britain as Time and The Next Step psychotherapist and a final Gave Up Drugs, well as The Family Secret, Lucy Sandys-Winsch is With George the Poet. year doctoral student. Unsolved: The Man with No Crime and Punishment and a multi-award-nominated Alibi and Land of Anarchy. the feature, Barrymore: executive producer, Donna Taberer is Head Joff Wilson is Executive The Body in the Pool. development executive of Talent, BBC Content Producer at Remarkable Cherish Oteka is an award- and series producer and is also director of the Television. He was central winning documentary Ashok Prasad is an Emmy who has worked for all prestigious ScreenSkills in devising the highly filmmaker who produced award-winning producer/ the major broadcasters Series Producer Programme. acclaimed Your Home Made and directed BBC One’s director making observational and has a strong track She is a former Sky and Perfect series for the BBC, Too Gay for God?. Cherish docs, specialist factual and record across landmark Channel 5 commissioner and using visual effects and is also a content strategist international current affairs. documentary strands. a documentary producer. virtual reality in a TV first. working across broadcast Recent productions include TV and digital, currently Rhythms of India for BBC Arts Catey Sexton is an award- Louis Theroux is a filmmaker, Pat Younge is an award- overseeing the output for and Has Political Correctness winning documentary journalist, broadcaster, winning journalist and former the UK’s leading LGBT+ Gone Mad? for Channel 4. maker, most recently double and author. He is best head of BBC Television content creator, Pink News. Grierson-nominated and known for presenting BBC Production and US Cable Anna Price is a film editor. BAFTA-nominated for documentaries like Louis network, Travel Channel Zak Ové is a multi-disciplinary Projects include Grierson- 90-minute documentary Theroux’s Weird Weekends Media. He co-founded British/Caribbean artist. His winning The Trial of Ratko Raped: My Story and and the more recent Sugar Films in 2015, which work focuses on the history Mladic and Once Upon a this year nominated for Life on the Edge and he left to launch Cardiff and lore carried through Time in Iraq: Fallujah, as Hometown: A Killing. Altered States series. Productions in May 2020. the African diaspora to well as many programmes the Caribbean, Britain and for Louis Theroux. Reva Sharma is an executive Shona Thompson is an beyond focusing on traditions producer and Head of Global Executive Producer at of masking and masquerade. Abigail Priddle is a BBC Development at Minnow BBC Studios. Her recent Commissioning Editor, her Films. With a career rooted credits include The Met: Marina Parker is an projects include What’s in journalism, Reva spent Policing London for BBC award-winning winning the Matter with Tony more than a decade making One, Inside The Foreign filmmaker. Her credits Slattery?, BAFTA-winning current affairs programmes Officefor BBC Two and The

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