Selected Films

 

The Billion Pound Savings Scandal

Winner – Best Current Affairs Programme, Royal Television Society

Offshore money, huge fees, suspicious payments and a phantom head of the KGB - just some of the dirt a group of ordinary British savers uncovered when the forty-six-million-pound fund they had invested in collapsed. Panorama follows investors as they try to unravel the truth about a fraudulent scheme, and challenge the regulators who failed them.


Keith (Untold)

Winner – 2023 Royal Philharmonic Society Storytelling Award

‘Keith' is the second episode of a new-format digital film series entitled Untold. This episode features the moving and uplifting story of Keith who lives with young onset dementia. The Camerata’s community team have been providing life-changing therapy for people living with dementia and their carers since 2012 with their Music in Mind programme.


Caroline (Untold)

‘Caroline’ is the first in a series of films entitled Untold, telling the intimate personal stories of real people in the community through film, spoken word and music performed by the UK’s most innovative orchestra, the Manchester Camerata. 

Nominee – 2021 Manchester Cultural Awards, ‘Best Performance’


Fascism in the Family

Through the personal and disturbing story of her grandfather’s role in Mussolini’s Italy, journalist Barbara Serra charts the rise of fascism in Italy in the 20th century and its return in the 21st.

Winner – New York Festivals TV & Film Awards, ‘Gold Award - Current Affairs’

Winner – New York Festivals TV & Film Awards, ‘Gold Award - History & Society’


A Very Sicilian Justice 
 

Helen Mirren narrates the
 trials of Italy’s most threatened man, Judge Nino Di Matteo, as he prosecutes the Italian State for
 conspiring with the Mafia in acts of murder and terror.

Winner – Manchester International Film Festival, ‘Best Documentary Short’

Finalist – New York Festival’s World Film and Television Awards, ‘Best Narration’


Fault Lines (Made in Bangladesh)

Fault Lines traces Bangladesh’s garment supply chain and asks if US retailers know where their clothes are being made.

Finalist – Emmy Award for Outstanding Journalism,

Winner – Peabody Award

Winner – National Headliner Award for 'America's Infant Mortality Crisis'


So Close So Far Away

Cath Turner was one of the 3000 Vietnamese children airlifted by the Americans at the end of the Vietnam War. She returns to find her birth family and the terrible truth behind her adoption.

Winner - International Academy of Visual Arts, Gold ‘Excellence in Documentary’

Winner - CINE Golden Eagle for ‘Best Documentary (People and Arts Category)’

Winner - Communicator Award for ‘Award of Excellence’


Born Freak 

Disabled actor Mat Fraser takes us through the history of ‘freak’ performers.

Finalist - Royal Television Society (North), ‘Best Factual Documentary’

Winner - Picture This Film Festival, Canada, ‘Best of Festival’

Winner - SuperFest XXIII, San Francisco, ‘Best of Festival’


Big G 

Celebration of the oldest but least known force in the universe: Gravity!


Finalist – Banff Rockie Awards, Canada, ‘Best Popular Science Documentary’


Rivals for Paradise

Feature-length special on the secret war between the Vatican and the Kremlin.

Winner – 'Outstanding Achievement in Production', Royal Television Society


Unforgiven

The story of the sole survivor of a brutal race lynching in America

Finalist - CableACE Awards, USA, ‘Best International Documentary’