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 innovaOve filming. I have huge experience of casOng interviewees, direcOng presenters, using archive ,and shaping narraOve both on locaOon and in the edit. I have led teams to film in complicated and challenging situaOons. I have iniOated ideas, successfully pitched and developed a range of programmes, from series to one- off documentaries for BriOsh and U.S Channels. I have used my extensive journalisOc skills to discover, shape stories and film them on locaOon. I am passionate about stories which make our world and filming them to create a compelling and innovaOve programme. KEY SKILLS • Speak conversaOonal French and Russian • Health and safety management • Current HosOle 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 HarYord. 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 ExecuAve Producer Ian Duncan. Commissioner: Lucy Willis Managing teams for two part series Shaping narraAve, archive and interviews. ELIZABETH,THE QUEEN, (CHANNEL FIVE AND INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTIONS. ) Series Producer 8 x 60’. 2017. ExecuAve Producer Ian Russell. Commissioner: Lucy Willis. ROYAL OBITUARIES ( CHANNEL 4) ITN ProducTons. Producer/Director. August 2016-March 2017. Exec Producer: Chris Shaw. Commissioner: Dorothy Byrne -IniOated scripts, and edited archive based narraOves -cast and gained rare access to interviewees used locaOons for maximum on camera effect Made 2x1’ films on Oght budget,concentraOng on geng money on screen. CURING ALZHEIMER’S (BBC2 ) 1 x 60’ Producer/Director 2016 Exec Prod: Steve Crabtree - Wrote and edited narraOves on new generaOon of Alzheimer’s research -Gained access and shaped stories of five extraordinary stories of lives overshadowed by Alzheimer’s -Directed stories in innovaOve 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 TuZ 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 relaOonship 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 traumaOc weather events in North and South America -Commissioned innovaOve 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 Iain Stewart on award winning earth sciences series filmed in 10 countries. Looked at the relaOonship between the geology of the planet and the development of human socieOes. 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 vicOms, and scienOst around the Indian Ocean TRAUMA : SOUTH AFRICA (BBC3) Obs doc in A & E Central Hospital, Johannesburg TRAUMA: ( BBC 1) Obs Doc A & E Royal London 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 [email protected] Chris Granlund Head of BBC History [email protected] .