Miles Blayden-Ryall
agent: Natalie Spanier - natalie@sternwild.com
Miles is a Grierson Award-winning, double-BAFTA and double-Emmy nominated filmmaker. His work has also picked up awards from esteemed festivals including Jackson Wild and BANFF, and has been nominated by RTS and Broadcast, amongst others. Miles is known for making creatively innovative and gripping films that attract huge global audiences (Bad Sport: Need for Weed, Netflix) and receive critical acclaim (Silverback, BBC2). Miles has delivered films to SVODs and Broadcasters including, Netflix, National Geographic, PBS, BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
The hallmark of Miles’ work is taking the audience on a journey to understand why we do the things we do. His approach is to explore the subject’s underlying psychology, as well as the wider social, cultural and political context within which the story occurs (The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist, Netflix).
Miles is motivated by his ambition to make thematically complex, sophisticated and creatively brave films that challenge conventions, but still draw people in and keep them watching. His work skilfully weaves together layered and unexpected themes that add to enrich the story and the characters within it (Life and Death Row: The Mass Execution, BBC2).
Miles’ work includes thought provoking, archive driven retrospectives that cover hugely sensitive and important topics (Sex on Trial, Channel 4) as well as reactive unfolding actuality with challenging access (Cutting Edge: Meet the Police Commissioner, Channel 4). Happy to work with crews or to self-shoot, Miles combines cinematic scale with intimacy to produce powerful, authentic and emotional stories which are beautifully realised.
He consistently aims to push the edges of creativity to find innovative ways of storytelling that deliver on his clear and distinctive vision for each project. Miles has expertise in directing premium drama reconstruction (MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, Netflix) and he has worked with animation to tell the retrospective story of a contributor who lost his family archive in a housefire (Silverback, BBC2).
Often by the end of one of Miles’ films the audience have discovered a story that they may not have expected to find.