Factual Features – Page 3
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FeaturesBuyer’s Profile: Joseph Maxwell, head of unscripted, SBS (Australia)
Unscripted chief at Australia’s SBS wants risk-taking shows that provoke debate and push boundaries
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Behind The ScenesThe Beast, Sky News
Sky correspondent Stuart Ramsay on dodging cartels and ‘jumping’ trains to follow migrants journeying to the US border
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Behind The ScenesHer Majesty The Queen: Behind Closed Doors, ITV1
Executive producer Kerene Barefield discusses working with the Queen and an all-female crew on ITV’s domestic abuse doc
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Behind The ScenesShoot to Kill: Terror on the Tube, Channel 4
Exec producer Dov Freedman reveals how Curious got the police officer who shot Jean Charles de Menezes to tell his story
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FeaturesBBC prioritises story over fan passion for music docs
Head of popular music TV Jonathan Rothery seeks ideas that appeal to a wider audience beyond core fans
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Behind The ScenesGunpowder Siege: the untold story of the gunpowder plotters
Guy Fawkes takes a back seat in Lightbox’s first docudrama, which delivers a fresh take on history with a modest budget
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Behind The ScenesPrince William: We Can End Homelessness, ITV1
Series director Leo Burley on working with the prince and not wanting to make a ‘traditional royal documentary’
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Behind The ScenesTrump: The Criminal Conspiracy Case, BBC2
Director Marian Mohamed on the inside story of how the former president allegedly tried to overturn the election result in 2020
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FeaturesPlimsoll eyes natural history ‘Trojan Horse’ to grow fact-ent slate
Andrea Jackson and Karen Plumb explain indie’s heartland can strengthen ’noisy and audacious ideas’
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Behind The ScenesThe Man Who Definitely Didn’t Steal Hollywood, BBC2
Writer, producer and director John Dower on how he took his cue from Hollywood to make a doc about a scandal that could be a movie itself
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FeaturesSpiked: The Hunt For The Origin Of Covid-19
‘The global importance of the story should endear Spiked to international buyers’
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FeaturesArming The Arctic
‘The fast-paced style keeps audiences engaged from the opening sequence to the credits’
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FeaturesVirgin Island
‘This isn’t a ‘dating in paradise’ reality show cast from Instagram and TikTok. These are real people’
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FeaturesDo You Want To Live Forever?
‘No way can you come away from Do You Want To Live Forever? without having learned something’
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FeaturesMysteries Of…
‘This series offers fresh perspectives and delves into lesser-known stories that bring these subjects to life in a new way’
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FeaturesMade In Korea: The K-Pop Experience
‘Buyers are looking for the next talent show, and this is fresh, unique and fits the bill nicely’
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FeaturesSylvia Bednarz: There should always be a place for ob-docs in our industry
Grierson Trust managing director unpacks this year’s awards shortlist and impact of DocLabs
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Behind The ScenesFamily trust central to ‘raw’ and personal Nicola Bulley doc
James Rogan and Rachel Lob-Levyt talk through capturing individual experiences in BBC1’s The Search for Nicola Bulley
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Behind The ScenesNavigating the ‘most complex’ duty of care for Al Fayed exposé
Director Erica Gornall unveils the expensive therapy process behind BBC2’s headline-grabbing doc