Features
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Behind The Scenes
How grading brought heart, grit and gloss to Dreamers
Residence Pictures co-founder Paul Harrison unpacks how colour choices helped draw viewers in to the drama’s version of Leeds
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What They Found, BBC2
Simon Chinn, producer and co-founder of Lightbox, on the documentary’s long journey from archive to screen
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How we set out to explore both sides of life in the West Bank
Director Jordan Bryon on securing the unique access needed to make Our Land: Israel’s Other War
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Kill List: Hunted by Putin’s Spies
Production executive Tom Cross on the security and adaptability needed to blow the whistle on Russia’s poison programme
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How our doc thrived on a mix of deaf and hearing talent
Camilla Arnold on the ‘truly magical’ experience of making Rose Ayling-Ellis: Old Hands, New Tricks
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Getting personal: Why I stepped out from behind the camera for my covid memorial doc
Writer and director Catey Sexton on making Love and Loss: The Pandemic 5 Years On
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Behind The Scenes
Vanessa, 5
ITN Productions daytime editor Ian Jones on creating a heartwarming, straight-talking new daytime chat show with a legend of the format
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How embracing limitations helped us capture authenticity
Producer director Sara Nourizadeh on the making of Finding Hope, a documentary about two teenagers who fled the Taliban
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Hustle & Run, Channel 4
Director Jonny Madderson on exploring the fast and furriest world of flyball through the eyes of an underdog team
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Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke
Producer Holly Whiston on how Passion gained sensitive access to the Franke family
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How we brought nuance and compassion to the story of the last woman hanged in Britain
Antonia Gordon on why Silverprint wanted to explore what really happened to Ruth Ellis
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Virdee, BBC1
Novelist AA Dhand on adapting his Virdee book series into an elevated thriller with a predominantly South Asian cast
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How we ignored the rejections to create a tricky but brilliant quiz format
Chalkboard TV exec producer Mike Benson on the challenges of bringing One Question to the screen
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How we built contributor trust to tell Boyzone’s difficult story
Executive producer Charlie Russell on exploring painful memories in Curious Films’ upcoming documentary Boyzone: No Matter What
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How I filmed undercover journalists exposing the far right
Director Havana Marking on the challenges and dangers of making a hard-hitting but beautiful film about anti-facist investigators
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Protecting the secrets of Gavin & Stacey: The Finale
From surprise guest appearances to avoiding the paps, how James Corden, Ruth Jones and the crew pulled off the iconic sitcom’s final episode
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Behind The Scenes
Top 10 behind the scenes of 2024
Including Josh Must Win, Supacell, Nightsleeper and The Fortune Hotel
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How a first-time director tackled a 10-year-old food scandal
Henrietta Esme Bennett on her Wonderhood Studios project for Sky Documentaries’ Emerging Directors Initiative
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Casualty Christmas special, BBC1
Executive producer Roxanne Harvey on using real-life testimonies to raise awareness of blood donor shortages
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Emperor: The Rise & Fall of a Dynasty, Channel 5
Producer Bob Marsden reveals how October Films used AI and comic strips to bring the debauchery, violence and excess of ancient Rome back to life