Posted 30 July 2024: A big shout-out to Stern & Wild filmmaker Matt Hill, one of the directors on the six-part docuseries In Vogue: The 90s which is set to launch on Disney+ in the UK this autumn.
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Posted 23 July 2024: Congratulations to Stern & Wild client Katharine English, a BAFTA and RTS award-winning filmmaker, whose brilliant documentary Kyle: The Gunman Who Divided America is set to air on BBC Three at 9:00pm tonight.
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Posted 22 July 2024: Huge congratulations to Stern & Wild filmmaker Jane Mingay, director of the incredible documentary Sophie Morgan’s Fight to Fly which is due to air on Channel 4 tonight at 9:00pm. The film follows television presenter and disability advocate Sophie Morgan as she campaigns for stronger protections for disabled passengers when travelling by air.
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Posted 8 July 2024: Moray and Natalie are delighted to welcome three new clients to Stern & Wild’s growing list of talented factual content creators: director/producer Raïssa Botterman, director/producer Jasleen Kaur Sethi and director Paul Sng.
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Posted 18 June 2024: Screen star and 22Summers founder Idris Elba gave a big shout out to the October Films production team on Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Colour at last Saturday’s sell-out Sheffield DocFest Nat Geo Spotlight session. Three of the team are Stern & Wild filmmakers: Johanna Gibbon, Executive Producer, Annabel Hobley, Co-Executive Producer and Alex Thomas, Director.
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Posted 13 June 2024: Congratulations to Stern & Wild filmmaker Matt Hill, one of the directors of a major new docuseries The Frost Tapes (w/t), unveiled by Sky today. The six-part series aims to chart almost half a century of social, political and cultural change “through the eyes of the one man who had a front-row seat to it all: Sir David Frost.”
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Posted 6 June 2024: Best of luck to Stern & Wild filmmakers Zoe Dobson and Eoin O'Shea whose work is in contention for the best docuseries Rockie Award at next week’s Banff World Media Festival.
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Posted 3 June 2024: Three Stern & Wild filmmakers had key roles in the production of Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Colour, a new landmark series premiering on Nat Geo today and dropping on Disney+ and Hulu tomorrow. Congratulations to Johanna Gibbon, Executive Producer, Annabel Hobley, Co-Executive Producer and Alex Thomas, Director.
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Posted 31 May 2024: Filming is underway on The Greatest Race on Earth (w/t), a major new sporting docuseries about the Isle of Man TT race produced by Box to Box and the production companies of two Hollywood A-listers - Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Channing Tatum’s Free Association. Stern & Wild’s Wes Pollitt is series director.
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Posted 23 May 2024: Stern & Wild has two clients in key roles on Camden, a major new four-part docuseries for Disney+ dropping next week. Exec produced by singer/songwriter Dua Lipa, it explores how the lives and careers of some of music’s biggest stars were influenced by the London borough. The series is produced by Lightbox in association with Day One Pictures, the production company founded by Amy Winehouse’s original manager Nick Shymansky, and Lipa’s Radical22. Asif Kapadia is Series Director. Stern & Wild’s Toby Trackman is an Episode Director with the agency’s Chris Wilson as Editor.
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Read MorePosted 23 May 2024: Congratulations to Stern & Wild filmmaker Camilla Hall on the opening of a London office for her production company Lady & Bird Films which she co-founded alongside Jennifer Tiexiera and Rita Baghdadi in 2018. The new UK base for the prize-winning indie is in addition to its original Los Angeles hub. We wish the whole team at Lady & Bird Films the best of luck with the new set-up and look forward to an exciting roster of UK-based projects.
Posted 17 May 2024: Two Stern & Wild directors Zoe Dobson and Helen Nixon have joined CNN’s upcoming culinary travel series Eva Longoria: Searching for Spain. The series is a reboot of the Searching For franchise, which began in 2021 with the first of two series featuring Stanley Tucci’s exploration of Italian culture and cuisine.
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Stern & Wild filmmakers Fred Hepburn and Kate Quine are working on the upcoming CNN Original Series Breaking Bird: The Rise and Fall of Twitter (w/t), a four-part docuseries charting the history of the social media platform from its creation in 2006 to its multi-billion dollar sale in 2022. The series is a co-production with the BBC. Fred Hepburn will serve as showrunner on the project with Kate Quine as series director.
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Manchester United documentary 99, helmed by Stern & Wild’s own Sampson Collins, is set to launch on Amazon Prime on Friday 17 May. The three-part docuseries explores the final days of the 1998/99 campaign which saw the team achieve the first treble in English football history, winning the Premier League, UEFA Champions League and FA Cup.
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After 15 months of Robin’s work on the project, Nat Geo announces major new series No Taste Like Home
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4 stars in the Guardian for last night’s Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour, made by Lana Salah’s newer indie Rex TV. Dominique Walker came in as a consultant executive producer to shape the format with Lana that got Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour commissioned and Dominique supported the team throughout production and the edit.
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Congratulations to Paul Mitchell, director of Storyville - Inside Russia: Traitors and Heroes, nominated for the BAFTA 2024 Curren Affairs Award
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ITV’s hugely successful drama Mr Bates vs. The Post Office is matched tonight on ITV by documentary Mr Bates vs. The Post Office - The True Story. The 60’ documentary, directed by Stern & Wild’s own Clare Richards and narrated by Toby Jones.
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Hostile environment extravaganza Lost Cities Revealed with Albert Lin goes live today on Nat Geo, Disney+ and Hulu for its second season
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