The legendary British documentary filmmaker, well known for her observational films that highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination. Here she talks about feeling like a monster when filming traumatic events, what makes a good relationship in documentary and her latest project, following X Factor winner Dalton Harris as he returns to Jamaica in the aftermath of the show. Divorce Iranian Style (1998) is available in full below, along with trailers for Rough Aunties (2008), Shooting the Mafia (2019) and Sisters in Law (2005).
Campbell X
Campbell X makes award-winning films that centre gender non-conforming, transgender, and Queer People of Color. Here Campbell discusses Black creativity, de-colonising film-making, representing queer bodies and why his stories are not funded by British institutions.
Ben Anthony
Ben is an extraordinary filmmaker who tackles the hardest subjects you can imagine with great sensitivity and beautiful photography. His documentaries include Grenfell, made in the year following the fire, 7/7: One Day in London about the London tube and bus bombings, A Year of British Murder, and the series Life and Death Row. Ben has won four BAFTAs. He has kindly made his films available below.
Tristan Anderson
Tristan is a BAFTA award winning filmmaker and musician. He has made films for the BBC, Channel 4, The Guardian and the Emmy Award winning Current TV. He is also one of the founders of DocHeads, a dedicated documentary screening, networking, and funding organization. Here he discusses the importance of failing, his current work on Micheal Jackson impersonators, autobiographical work and how to film with a dominatrix.
Hannah Berryman
Hannah is the highly experienced director of a long list of British television and feature documentaries, many award-winning, beautifully shot, thoughtfully authored films, to great acclaim from critics and her peers. Here she describes her way into the industry, her film making process, her latest feature Rockfield (trailer below) and why diversity matters in the industry.
Sean McAllister
The distinctively brilliant filmmaker from Hull on his experiences working in television, the hard work behind making it all look easy and the importance of comedy and filming people in showers. Sean's award-winning films include The Liberace of Baghdad (2004), A Syrian Love Story (2014), The Reluctant Revolutionary (2012) and A Northern Soul (2018).
Nacheal Catnott
Goldsmiths MA Screen Documentary graduate Nacheal Catnott talks early career experiences, ideas for amplifying stories about Blackness, her first class grad film The Battle of Lewisham and how she is aiming for the role of commissioner.
Mandy Chang
Mandy Chang is commissioner at BBC Storyville. She previously worked as a documentary filmmaker, writer, series producer and executive producer for British indies and UK broadcasters. Her feature documentary, The Mona Lisa Curse for Channel 4, won an Emmy, a Grierson, the Rose D’Or and the Banff Grand Jury Prize. Before Storyville she was Head of Arts at ABC, Australia.
Leah Borromeo
Leah Borromeo was foreign editor at Sky News until she drove into the G20 protests in an armoured personnel carrier, and lost her job the next day. She now makes documentaries for Witness on Al Jazeera, including the forthcoming Mortician of Manila, trailer below.
Alison Millar
Alison Millar on making a film about her friend the journalist Lyra McKee, who was murdered in a riot in Belfast in 2019. Alison is one of the UK and Ireland's most respected documentary film-makers. She is a BAFTA, IFTA and Prix Italia winner as well as winning both the UK and Northern Ireland Royal Television Society award in 2016 for Channel 4's Dispatches documentary Kids In Crisis. She is a critically acclaimed film-maker with a reputation for making emotionally compelling films. Here she also discusses her acclaimed films The Father, the Son and the Housekeeper, The Men Who Won’t Stop Marching and The Disappeared.
Paul Sng
A lockdown conversation with documentary filmmaker Paul Sng, director of Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain, Disposession: The Great Social Housing Swindle and the forthcoming feature doc on X-Ray SPecs punk icon Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché.
Brian Hill
A lockdown chat with the lovely Brian Hill for documentary students at Goldsmiths. Brian is an award winning filmmaker who has a long standing creative partnership with the poet laureate Simon Armitage. Here he discusses the some of his many award winning and critically acclaimed films: Feltham Sings, Drinking for England and The Not Dead, which are all available to watch below.
