Archie Powell
agent: Moray Coulter - moray@sternwild.com
Archie is an RTS-nominated filmmaker, specialising in high-end arts, history and specialist factual programmes. Experienced in closely scripted documentary making, he’s particularly enthused by strong visual storytelling, use of music and working with actors. Archie has collaborated with some of the country’s most prestigious and demanding talent. In the UK, he’s produced and directed for multiple-award winning series for BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky, and, in the US, made work for CNN, PBS and Reelz.
Hugely experienced in authored, non-presenter led documentaries, Archie is also a creative and sympathetic collaborator with some of the country’s most prestigious and demanding talent and contributors. He has made several episodes of the BAFTA Award winning series, Who Do You Think You Are? over 20 South Bank Show films and co-directed the multi-Emmy Award winning, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. His 2013 documentary on Grime, Bow and UK Hip-Hop was the first ever Sky Arts South Bank documentary to be nominated for an RTS Award. Archie is also a qualified professional stills photographer.
During nearly 20 years of directing, Archie has been held up by armed police in a Rio Favela, been locked in a strong room with Alan Bennett, got lost in East Berlin with Nick Cave and swam in a thermal lake with Bjork – most of the time deliberately.