Sally Brindle
agent: Moray Coulter - moray@sternwild.com
Overview
Sally is a producer and series producer who has worked for over two decades on high-profile series and single docs, including the Emmy and BAFTA award - winning ‘9/11: One Day in America’ (Outstanding Historical Documentary) and the Emmy and BAFTA award - winning BBC series ‘Once Upon a Time in Iraq’ (Best Factual Series).
She specialises in first person, narrative and archive-driven documentaries that tell the inside story behind significant events and iconic individuals, past and present.
Sally has secured access to numerous public figures including Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, US Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
She has made in-depth profiles about Robbie Williams, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, and Margaret Thatcher and secured the first television interview with Princess Diana’s lover James Hewitt for the ITV hit series Diana, Story of a Princess.
Sally has considerable US filming experience and has worked for several global broadcasters and streamers including Netflix, National Geographic, CNN Originals and Investigation Discovery.
She has worked with a wide variety of on–screen talent including David Dimbleby, Jon Snow, David Mitchell, Jonathan Dimbleby, Clive Anderson and Ruby Wax.
Nicole Kidman describes to Sally her friendship with Rupert Murdoch
Sally’s credits include:
Series Producer - Robbie Williams
RSA Films for Netflix. Four-part series. Robbie Williams watches private and behind-the-scenes footage of his career that he’s never seen and reflects on the price of his fame.
Producer - ‘The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker, feature doc for Netflix.
‘Once Upon At Time In Iraq’ 5 x 60’ BBC2 series examining the Iraq War, made by Keo Films, commissioned by Clare Sillery and Patrick Holland. BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning.
Series producer 9/11, One Day in America, 72 Films for National Geographic, marking 20 years since the attacks. Winner of the 2022 Emmy award for Outstanding Historical Documentary.
Producer - Farage: The Man Who Made Brexit (Channel 4): inside access to Nigel Farage in the months running up to the 2019 general election.
Producer - The Bulger Killers: Was Justice Done? The disturbing story of the murder of Liverpool toddler James Bulger 25 years on, received the highest Channel 4 viewing figures for a single doc in a 9pm slot for over four years.
Series producer (and director of ep 3) ‘The Blair Years’. Tony Blair contributed four interviews, along with President George W Bush (in office) and President Clinton.
Producer - Race for the White House (CNN Originals, now on Netflix), narrated by Kevin Spacey, a six part series about past presidential campaigns, breaking viewing records for the channel.
Producer - Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot
60’ Documentary marking the 25th anniversary of the Strangeways prison riots, told by the prisoners and prison officers who were there. Made by Minnow Films for BBC2.
