Feature Documentary
Sony Pictures Classics
Elk Film & Pumpernickel Films
ROLE: Lead Writer and Story Producer
The Inside Story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450m.
Variety: "Sensational… no movie is more gripping than a great documentary mystery"
Deadline: “Plays out like a spy novel… rivalling anything John Le Carré could ever dream of”
The New York Times: “Packs the fascination and wallop of an expertly executed fictional thriller”
Screen: “A pacey film which starts out at incredible and will only move up the scale”
The Times: “Thrilling, propulsive and provocative”
Financial Times: “A triumph of structure. By coincidence, I saw it a couple of nights after a rewatch of Chinatown, rightly hailed as a scriptwriting gold standard. The resemblance is striking.”
BAFTA Best Feature Documentary shortlist
Critic’s Choice Best Feature Documentary nomination
Danish Film Awards and Bodil Awards Best Feature Documentary nomination
IDA Best Cinematography & Best Music Score nomination
Selected Festivals: Tribeca Film Festival, AFI Fest, Hot Docs Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Foyle Film Festival
3-part Documentary Series
Netflix/Channel 4
Fulwell 73
ROLE: Development Producer
Global fandom intersected with celebrity trials before. There was O. J. Simpson murder case of 1994, Michael Jackson’s 2005 trial, or Britney Spears’ conservatorship case which spawned #FreeBritney movement.
But no trial has ever emerged as a serialised, prime-time, train-wrack global live streaming entertainment event, and a social media phenomenon like John C. Depp v. Amber Laura Heard defamation trial.
DEPP V HEARD is a three-part documentary series dissecting the trial entirely through the court and social media archive.
When partner violence is turned into a spectator sport, what is the ultimate cost?
A&E Networks/ Channel 4
Fulwell 73
ROLE: Development Producer
Within hours of airing, Prince Andrew’s 2019 BBC Newsnight interview was breaking the internet. “A plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion level bad” one Tweet summed it up.
Things go from bad to catastrophic when the infamous interview becomes evidence in Virginia Guiffre v Prince Andrew sexual abuse lawsuit. After Andrew’s attempts to dismiss the case are rejected the late Queen strips her favourite son of HRH title, military affiliations, and royal patronages. Andrew, once the enfant terrible of the Royal Family, was now its biggest threat.
But how did Andrew arrive at his very own Frost/Nixon moment?
Featuring the BBC Newsnight team’s exclusive account of the infamous interview, this is a story of greed, privilege, and hubris.
PATRIA MIA, NOMAD DIRECTION
Al Jazeera/MEDIA/BHRT/Swiss Film Fund
Bethnal Films & Pro.ba
ROLE: Writer, Director, Producer
Daily Telegraph: “No documentary this year beguiled me more than this revelatory and lyrical portrait of the sizeable Chinese population living in Bosnia”
The Times: “A very funny and likeable documentary.. terrific characters!”
Winner, Best International Documentary Sguardi Altrove Film Festival
Selected Festivals: Sheffield Doc Fest, Tribeca Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, European Independent Film Festival
LOOKING FOR THE REVOLUTION
Feature Documentary
BBC Storyville, ARTE, PBS etc/Why Democracy
Bethnal Films
ROLE: Executive Producer
CONDOR: AXIS OF EVIL
Feature Documentary
France 2
Article Z & Bethnal Films
ROLE: Executive Producer
Critics Week, Cannes Film Festival
Al Jazeera International
Bethnal Films
MAO IN BOSNIA
ROLE: Director/Producer
THE RETURN OF THE INCA EMPIRE
ROLE: Producer
CHILD MINERS
ROLE: Producer
WAYUU WOMEN
ROLE: Producer
JUNGLE MUSIC
ROLE: Producer
WOMEN GLADIATORS
ROLE: Producer
LA APERTURA
Short Drama
Channel 4, Future Shorts
Bethnal Films
ROLE: Writer, Director, Producer
Selected awards: UIP Prix Europa, Best of the Festival Zinebi SDFF, Silver Lion nomination
Selected festivals: Venice Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, Cinequest Film Festival, Foyle Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival
