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Jasleen Kaur Sethi

Jasleen Kaur Sethi is a BAFTA-, and multi-award winning Director who has delivered films to Netflix, Sundance, Channel 4, BBC and ITV. Her films combine creative and ambitious visuals with intimate, delicate, and revealing storytelling. She has made interview and archive led retrospective films, complex investigative films and observational character driven documentaries.

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DirectorMoray Coulter
Tim Lawton

Tim Lawton is a BAFTA-nominated documentary filmmaker based in London. His films are intimate, compelling, and thought-provoking, with cinematic visuals. Recent work includes the critically acclaimed ‘In the Face of Terror’ (Expectation/C4) and One Shot: The Football Factory (Expectation/SKY Documentaries). He also has an upcoming series to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 7/7 London Bombings (Blast Films/SKY Documentaries).

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DirectorMoray Coulter
Charles Marquardt

Charles Marquardt's work features celebrities and everyday people with inspiring stories to share. Subjects range from science and literature to cooking and design.   His favorite projects are always thoughtful, positive, and don’t take themselves too seriously. Recently, Charles served as an executive producer and showrunner on the first season of Silos Baking Competition for Blind Nil and The Magnolia Network featuring Chip and Joanna Gaines.  

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Katharine English

Kat is a BAFTA and RTS award-winning filmmaker.  She makes bold and critically-acclaimed films with captivating story-telling, emotion, humour and pathos at their heart.
Most recently, Katharine filmed and directed KYLE: THE GUNMAN WHO DIVIDED AMERICA  for BBC. A “startling film” said The Guardian. Made with unprecedented access to teen-shooter Kyle Rittenhouse,  the film explores how a deadly and ineffective vigilante became a far-right role model.

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Christian Trumble

Christian is a Grierson-nominated documentary filmmaker with a knack for making complex stories punch through. His films include political thrillers like Nigel Farage: The Man Who Made Brexit, gripping true crime documentaries such as ITV and Netflix’s hit The Parachute Murder Plot, and the sensitive human-interest documentary Obsessive Compulsive Hoarder—Channel 4’s highest-rated documentary of the year, which earned a special commendation at the Grierson Awards.

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Helen Nixon

Helen is a BAFTA and Broadcast Award winning Series Director and Series Producer. With over 20 years TV experience, she’s as comfortable nurturing new talent as she is working with movie stars, filming on the streets of Wolverhampton or in the mountains of Tibet. She prides herself on telling compelling, human stories and bringing art and history to life with warmth and humour. Helen has directed A list Hollywood talent including Andrew Garfield, Eva Longoria and Stanley Tucci. She directed first-time presenters Dr Yasmin Khan and Sathnam Sanghera in series for which they won, or were nominated for, RTS and Grierson awards. 

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Leo McCrea

Leo McCrea is an Emmy winning & 3-time BAFTA Nominated Director, who is regularly invited to set the style and tone of new series such as the BBC’s "Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing" and Channel 4’s "Travel Man with Richard Ayoade".  His ability to create a good rapport and chemistry with high-profile talent means that he has been entrusted to direct CNN’s "Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy", Netflix’ "Jack Whitehall’s Travels with my Father", and Sky’s "Rob and Rom Vs.” to name a few.

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DirectorMoray Coulter
Simon Cooper

Simon is an award-winning Series Director & Executive Producer with 20 years experience of creating popular factual content for all the major UK broadcasters. He was the showrunner of Broadcast Award winning and RTS nominated BBC crime history series Murder Mystery & My Family.

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Mark Bates

Mark is a director and edit producer specialising in presenter-led and premium retrospective docs. Over twenty years he has delivered critically acclaimed series for all the UK channels as well as PBS, CNN and Disney+. With a passion for history, fashion, biography, travel and the arts, he’s skilled at crafting complex narratives and getting great performances from on-screen talent.

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Sampson Collins

Sampson Collins is an award-winning director/ producer/ writer, journalist and photographer, who specialises in distilling complex subjects into human, character-driven stories that can make a social and cultural impact.

He recently finished directing the critically-acclaimed ‘Gazza’, a BBC archive-only feature documentary on the life and career of Paul Gascoigne and his toxic relationship with the tabloid press..

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DirectorMoray Coulter
Christine Garabedian

Christine is a Grierson and International Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, deeply committed to strong, clear, narrative- driven filmic true storytelling that offers insights into our common humanity.

A skilled camera operator, and fluent in French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Arabic, and Dutch, she has a natural gift for being accepted into peoples’ lives in challenging, difficult, emotionally, culturally and politically charged situations. Christine is a London-based EU citizen and has a US iVisa.

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Jane Mingay

Jane worked as a celebrated international photojournalist for 12 years before re-training as a documentary Director, with the skills of a DoP. She most recently produced and directed Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story, a feature documentary about the legendary singer that premiered at London Film Festival. On TV,  Jane also produced and directed a prime-time documentary for Channel 4 about Jamie Oliver and dyslexia and neuro-diversity, Jamie’s Dyslexia Revolution. She has a strong track record of directing talent as well as making films about complex social issues, including ‘Paloma Faith: As I Am’, ‘Sophie Morgan: Fight to Fly’ and ‘Disgraced’.

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Sam Miller

Sam is a premium and creative documentary film maker who loves his craft and takes great pride in every project, whatever the budget. Creating thought provoking, cinematic and popular documentaries for both UK and International audiences, Sam relishes tackling complex subject matters and has the rare ability of delivering dynamic, high-impact films with real humanity, emotion and nuance.

Sam is a specialist in limited box set series that blend retrospective and unfolding narratives, drama documentaries and working with presenter talent. His recent work includes The Million Pound Shaman Scam (BBC2); The Playboy Bunny Murder (ITV1); Fugitive: The Mystery of the Crypto Queen (C4 & Sky); The Eunuch Maker (Sky); Jared from Subway (Max). His work has received numerous prestigious industry awards and achieved record viewing figures.

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DirectorMoray Coulter
Natalie Hewit

Natalie Hewit is an award-winning director and producer who makes prime-time documentaries and series for major terrestrial and international broadcasters. Her work has received industry recognition and critical acclaim including an RTS Award for the BBC series Forensics: The Real CSI and nominations for a BAFTA and RTS Award for C4’s Surviving Covid. She has received Grierson and Broadcast Award nominations. With human narratives at their core, her projects have taken her to numerous remote and highly challenging locations.

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Kate Quine

Kate has extensive experience working on ambitious documentary projects with an emphasis on specialist factual and contemporary history. Having started her career in current affairs, she is a strong journalist who loves telling important stories in fresh, engaging and human ways. Kate has made programmes for the BBC, Nat Geo, CNN, Channel 4 and other global networks. She has a lot of experience of working with archive and has also directed drama reconstruction.

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Matt Dyas

Matt has spent 20 years making documentaries spanning radio, tv and film. Awards include BAFTA, Emmy, Jackson Hole, Wildscreen and Telluride. Matt is a Royal Geographical Society fellow and has a background in science and natural history broadcasting on subjects spanning physics, biology and archaeology.

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Paul Sng

Paul Sng is a bi-racial British Chinese filmmaker based in Edinburgh, Scotland whose work focuses on people who challenge the status quo. He has directed six feature documentaries, including POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHE (winner of BIFA 2021 Best Documentary, BIFA 2021 Raindance Discovery Award), TISH (Sheffield DocFest 2023 Opening Gala film) and REALITY IS NOT ENOUGH (Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 Closing Gala film).

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DirectorMoray Coulter
Adnan Ahmed

Adnan Ahmed  is an acclaimed director and cinematographer with a reputation for crafting cinematic films that explore complex and sensitive subjects. Recent credits include Big Zuu Goes to Mecca (BBC2), which was hailed by The Guardian as “a quietly revolutionary portrait of Islam” (★★★★★)  and won Adnan a Grierson Award and an RTS-nomination.

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DirectorMoray Coulter