Pamela Gordon

The first 90 minute feature doc from the BBC Natural History Unit tells the epic story of this world famous pride of lions in Kenya. Filmed in Kenya in 2021. With privileged access to 30 years of NHU archive. 

Commissioned by Sreya Biswas and Jack Bootle

Director of Photography Brendan Easton
Composer Samuel Sim
Editors David G. Hill and Ian Garvin

Following on from Thatcher this is a five part exploration of Tony Blair and the New Labour project.
Interviews with all the key players, including Blair himself.  

Exec Steve Condie for BBC Studios

Commissioned by Simon Young

Comedian Alex Brooker sets out to come to terms with his physical disability and find out what its like to be disabled in the UK today.

Director of Photography Brendan Easton 
Editor Ian Garvin

Commissioned by Abigail Priddle

Broadcast on BBC2 in May 2019, this award-winning film was part of a landmark series about Margaret Thatcher.  Members of her cabinet tell the dramatic story of her final two years in power.

Director of Photography Brendan Easton with Luke Menges
Editor Ian Garvin
Commissioned by Simon Young

When she retired from ballet Dame Darcey Bussell struggled with feelings of emptiness and depression. She realised that she needed dance in her life to be herself and to feel happy. In this very personal film Darcey explores the positive impact that dance has on mental health. From a group of troubled girls in Manchester experiencing anxiety and depression to a dementia dance class in Edinburgh and a cutting edge research project for Parkinson’s sufferers run by Dr Dance, Peter Lovatt Darcey hears the moving stories of people who use dance as therapy.

Director of Photography Brendan Easton
Editor Ian Garvin

Zoe Ball lost her partner, Billy, to suicide. In this very personal film Zoe talks  about her grief and the impact of suicide on those left behind. The 2018 Comic Relief Challenge sends Zoe on an epic cycle journey from her birthplace in Blackpool back home to Brighton. Along the way Zoe meets suicide prevention groups, families and survivors.

Nominated for the Mental Health Award 2019

Directors of Photography Brendan Easton and Mike Carling
Editors Ian Garvin and Craig Nicholls

Producer Jonathan Skuse

With access to the adoption process the films follow Saira Khan and her husband Steve through the rigorous social worker meetings and panel. Saira then travels to Pakistan to adopt an abandoned baby from the famous Edhi Orphanage in central Karachi

Music Samuel Sim
Director of Photography Brendan Easton
Editor Paul Carlin

This Discovery Europe film was filmed in Moscow and tells the inside story of the Chechen attack on one of the city’s theatres. The tragic event ended in the death of at least 170 people when the Russian authorities stormed the theatre and used fatal doses of fentanyl gas to overcome the hostage takers.

Music Samuel Sim
Editor Gregor Lyon

Filmed over two years, this series had a huge impact on the whole team. Years later, people from the series still contact me regularly.

The films document the lives of people who had fallen through the cracks in Blair’s Britain.

Stacey: Stacey was a prostitute, walking the same streets where Jack the Ripper found his victims a century ago. I watched the film with Stacey when it was first shown on Channel 4. A few months later Stacey tragically died. I was proud to speak at her funeral and I often think of her.

Petrolman: Jill and Steve Bolton lived in a car when we met them and were struggling to stay in touch with their young son. Addicted to crack, Steve funds their habit stealing petrol from local service stations…

The Magical World of Susie Wardrobe: Filmed in the lead up to Blair's 2001 Labour victory this film tells the story of a single mother’s struggle to survive on a Gateshead housing estate as she gets deeper into debt with loan sharks. After the film was shown viewers sent in donations which paid off Susie’s debts twice over.

After the Fall: The story of alcoholic Steve Longstaff and his family who live in Ashington, which was once the largest mining town in the world. Filmed over a full year there seems to be little future in an area devastated by the closure of the mines after the 1984 strike.

Director of Photography Petra Graf
Editor Gregor Lyon
Executive Producer Tom Roberts
Producer Steve Grogan
AP David Clews

Filmed over two years in London, Nottingham and Brighton this hard-hitting series made a legal precedent when Nottingham Social Services tried to prevent us telling the true story of runaways on the streets of their city.
With the support of David Lloyd and the team at Channel 4 legal department we won the battle in the family court and Staying Lost was transmitted.

Shortlisted for Grierson Best Documentary Series
Winner of the Indie Award for Best Current Affairs series
Nominated BBC2 Creativity Award
Nominated RTS Best Editing Award
 
Co-Series Director Tom Roberts
Director of Photography Petra Graf
Editor Paul Carlin

Series directing this six part series in-house for BBC2 involved observational, rigged filming and interviews across the UK.

Director of Photography Luke Menges