We are delighted that The Black Cop, the remarkable film made by Cherish Oteka - one of Stern & Wild’s younger directors, has been put on the BAFTA Awards British Short Film longlist.
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Broadcast Awards: Best Documentary Series - Congratulations to Sally Brindle, James Bluemel and Keo Films
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This week, Fiona Thompson joins Stern & Wild as a new Agent to grow the agency among high-end Entertainment show runners, senior producers and directors.
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BBC2, 9pm tonight Paloma Faith gives remarkable access to film-maker Jane Mingay before and during the pandemic in one-hour documentary Paloma Faith: As I Am.
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It’s always a joy to see Stern & Wild film-makers having their work celebrated. Keo Films’ remarkable Once Upon A Time In Iraq won the RTS Best Documentary Series Award this week. It was produced by Sally Brindle , and directed by James Bluemel.
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10pm tonight on BBC4, Storyville - Dark Secrets Of A Million Dollar Island: Garenne. Emmy-nominee Camilla Hall “...looks at the way Jersey’s close-knit elite and distinctive government (the island is a possession of the Crown, separate from the UK) tried to gloss over the scandal to preserve Jersey’s reputation as a haven for financial services. It’s a disturbing portrait of an island run, as one contributor puts it, “by the rich, for the rich” - Radio Times
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Jane Mingay is cited throughout a half-page article in today’s Daily Telegraph Arts section (here, subject to a solid paywall). Writer James Hall meets singer Paloma Faith, and counterpoints his impression with Jane’s 60’ documentary Paloma Faith: As I am, which will be screened by BBC2 later this month.
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Stern & Wild director Adam Brown debuts on Storyville next Monday night with his feature documentary Into The Storm. It’s a classic story of the unreliable potential for transcending the walls of poverty through talent and perseverance.
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Jane Mingay has joined the agency! If you are not already familiar with Jane’s work, she will be making a splash within the next few weeks as BBC Two and iPlayer screen 60’ film As I Am, an intimate portrayal of Paloma Faith made with Mosaic Films.
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It's always good to see Stern & Wild people nominated for an Emmy…
So big congratulations to Chris Martin who has *two* nominations this year, Best Documentary and Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary, for his authored film Under The Wire. It deals with journalist Marie Colvin’s last days in Homs, and her colleague Paul Conroy’s bare escape from the besieged city.
Camilla Hall produced Netflix audience winner Circus Of Books, which has been nominated in the Emmy 2020 Outstanding Writing For A Non-Fiction Programme category. Camilla has just directed an investigative Storyville with Rogan Productions which is now in the last weeks of post-production.
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Documentary production doesn’t have to stop because of social isolation. The new restrictions on travel and working in teams have made filming actuality all but impossible, but that is no reason to freeze your production or commission. Instead, it’s time to evolve the language of documentary away from actuality and develop further means of telling a credible, verifiable story. It is time to find out just how creative your Creatives can be. If you think that Covid-19 is creating a crisis of logistics you’re missing the point, it’s a crisis of the imagination.
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David Shulman’s new doc airs tonight
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