Factual Features – Page 37
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FeaturesDocumentary programme: Interview With A Murderer
It was a landmark year for the true crime genre but Interview With A Murderer, which featured former ambulance man Bert Spencer, widely suspected of killing paperboy Carl Bridgewater, stood out.
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FeaturesDocumentary series: Exodus: Our Journey Into Europe
”We all think we know the migration story – our news is saturated with it. But this was the real story, stripped back and bare.” So said one judge of the category’s clear winner.
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Behind The ScenesThe Cult Next Door, BBC2
Sleight of hand in the edit helped illustrate this extraordinary story
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Behind The ScenesFaking It: Tears of A Crime, Investigation Discovery
Why do criminals think TV is the place to protest their innocence?
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Behind The ScenesThe World's Most Wanted Leopard, Nat Geo Wild
What started out as a bid to photograph a rare leopard in Azerbaijan turned into a mission to preserve a unique species, says Adrian Steirn
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Behind The ScenesLowri Morgan: Her 333, S4C
Running 150 miles up three mountains in three days not enough? Try being presenter and assistant producer too
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Behind The ScenesThe Last Miners, BBC1
By rejecting the use of mini cams, gimbals and drones, we strove for visual honesty of life in the pits, says Wesley Pollitt
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Behind The ScenesInside The Ambulance, W
We wanted to get an intimate view of the ambulance crews. The solution: shooting on GoPro cameras and wrangling data in the back of a Volkswagon, says Jacqueline Hewer
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Behind The ScenesStacey Dooley: Guns, Girls and Isis, BBC3
Stacey Dooley has revealed her reasons for venturing into a war zone for the first time following the launch of her Isis-themed BBC3 documentary.
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The Broadcast InterviewAlisa Pomeroy, Channel 4
Channel 4’s documentaries commissioning editor talks to Miranda Blazeby about experimenting with form and subject matter – and why privatisation would put it all at risk
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Behind The ScenesBefore the Flood, Nat Geo
The ‘power of Leo’ compelled film-maker Fisher Stevens to return to the theme of climate change. The actor opened doors and made the topic sexy too, he tells Manori Ravindran
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Behind The ScenesHow the Box Was Born, BBC4
The first night of broadcasting was a variety extravaganza – The X Factor of its day – and recreating it was a daunting task, says Peter Gauvain
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FeaturesMipcom: simple formats shine
There was no breakout hit at this year’s Mipcom, but themes around conflict resolution, secrets and ageing emerged. Manori Ravindran takes a closer look at the shows that stood out
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Behind The ScenesReggie Yates: Life and Death in Chicago, BBC3
Online shorts perfectly supported a Reggie Yates doc on gun crime in Chicago, writes Dov Freedman
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FeaturesSavage Kingdom, Nat Geo Wild
Our brief was to achieve the feel and tone of scripted drama, without sacrificing authenticity - luckily, the natural world gave us some incredible original storylines, says Harry Marshall
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Behind The ScenesPlanet Earth, BBC1
A decade after its groundbreaking series, BBC Studios’ NHU is again using cutting-edge techniques and technology to take the viewer right into the world of animals.
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FeaturesUnderwater innovators
Deep-sea filming is one of the toughest challenges in natural history. George Bevir hears how some of the genre’s leading producers have charted this hidden world