JEREMY WILLIAMS
CURRICULUM VITAE
Mobile: 07752 154541
E-mail: [email protected]
Twenty-Four Frames Per Second Films
@twentyfourfilms
As an award-winning television producer/director [BAFTA, One World Media Award] I
have worked in broadcast television in the UK for twenty years. Producing and directing a
range of programmes from current affairs and observational documentaries to history and
factual entertainment, I have led creative teams to deliver visually stylish and content rich
programming that have generated large audiences, achieved critical acclaim and been
screened at film festivals worldwide.
EMPLOYMENT
NORMAL LIFE
2010-2016
PICTURES/TWENTY
FOUR FILMS
Director/Producer
“On A Knife Edge” Vision Maker/Gucci Tribeca Documentary
Fund/South Dakota Humanities Fund/Nebraska Humanities
Fund: A 90-minute feature documentary with animation. Across
four years this observational film follows the coming-of-age of a
young Lakota boy from a remarkable Native American family living
in the poorest community in the United States. The film deals with
leadership and identity and captures the current social, economic and
political instability on the Reservation. The film references
American wars, history and injustice. Currently in production 20112016. DoP Steve Robinson. Hi-Definition.
QUICKSILVER
2009
Producer/Director
“Dispatches: Orphans of the Burma Cyclone” Channel 4: A 60minute documentary filmed inside Burma by under-cover
cameramen working for the Democratic Voice of Burma following
orphan survivors of Burma’s Cyclone Nargis, the devastating storm
that hit the country in May 2008. Flim highlighted the plight of the
Burmese living under the military junta. TX C4 June 2009. HDV.
Screened in the US as ‘Eyes of the storm’ for Wide-Angle/PBS.
Winner of the One World Childrens’ Rights Award 2010 and the
Rory Peck Award 2010. Runner Up Best Documentary, AIB Awards
2009. The film was used by the Democratic Voice of Burma [DVB]
in their campaign for social and political change in Burma.
OCTOBER FILMS
2007-2009
Producer/Director/
Writer
Nobel Media: “Restless Flights: The Literature of JMG Le
Clezio”, a 30 minute portrait of the winner of the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 2008 author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio. Filmed a
rare, in-depth interview with the writer in Nice and followed him on
a trip to Mauritius, the home of his ancestors and the setting of his
greatest novels. DoP Michael Timney. Nobel Media. DvCam
Producer
BBC Storyville: “The Ghosts of the 7th Cavalry”, a 90-minute
feature documentary following American 7th Cavalry veteran of
Major Robert ‘Snuffy’ Gray - a tale of 150 years of US frontier
history and a journey into the mind of a troubled American war hero.
Developed and produced the doc and organised access with the US
Department of Defense and Korean & Vietnam veteran association
groups. For BBC Storyville, ARTE and NHK. Nominated for a One
World Media Award for Best Documentary 2009 & “Best of the
Fest,” Minneapolis Film Festival 2010. Hi-Definition.
OPTOMEN TV
2007
Producer/Director/
Writer
Channel Four: “Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares”, 1x60 flagship
show with Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay attempting to turn
round an ailing restaurant called The Priory in West Sussex. 4.6
million audience, the highest in the series, with a 20% share. Series
won a BAFTA for the production team in the ‘Features’ category
2008. Digibeta.
LANDMARK FILMS 2002-2007
Series Director
BBC 1 & BBC2: “Sleep Clinic”, series of 8x30 minute
documentaries for BBC1 and BBC2 about patients treated by
Papworth Hospital’s Sleep Centre in Cambridgeshire. Worked across
the series managing a team of directors and associate producers and
liaised with the medical and administrative teams at Papworth
Hospital. TX February–April 2007. Audiences between 2.5-3 million
and shares of 20% at 10.30 slot BBC1. DVcam.
Series Producer
Five TV: “Beat It”, series of 3x60 minute observational
documentaries for Five TV about people trying to overcome
obstacles in their lives. Managed and led a production team of eight
and directed two documentaries in the series, The Boy Who
Stammered, about a teenager lad with a speech impediment and
Angry With My Father, about a young man with a violent temper.
programmes. TX June 2007. DVcam.
Writer/Producer
/Director
Producer/Director
“Our Father Who Art In Heaven”, a 15 minute festival doc about
two brothers who grew up with a violent and abusive father who
return home on his death. Completed 2006. Screened Raindance
Film Festival 2007, Runner Up, Best Documentary, Rushes Soho
Shorts 2007. Also screened in 2007 at The End of the Pier
International Film Festival in the UK and at the ‘In The Palace’
International Short Film Festival in Bulgaria. Currently screening on
BBC Film Network. DVcam.
Five TV: “Pet Poisoners,” 60 minute documentary for Five about
strange and dark cases of pet poisoning across the country –
Britain’s fastest growing violent crime. TX November 2006.
Digibeta.
Producer/Director
Five TV: “Extraordinary Pets,” 60-minute documentary about
Americans who keep Tigers, Giraffe and Crocodiles as pets at home.
Five TV TX Autumn 2005. Audience 1.5 million. Digibeta.
Producer/Director
Five TV: “Real Wife Swaps: The Business of Swinging”, 60minute documentary in a series of three about the growing middle
class swinging scene in the home counties for Five. Audience 2
million - highest rated viewing figures for documentary series on
Five in 2004. Digibeta TX August 2004.
Producer/Director
ITV 1: “The Tallest People in Britain”, 60-minute documentary
about four people who are extraordinarily tall for ITV. TX June
2004. Super 16mm. 30% audience share ITV1.
Producer/Director
ITV 1: “The Laziest Men in Britain”, 60-minute documentary
about idle blokes for ITV. Super 16mm. TX June 2003. 34%
audience share ITV1.
Producer
ITV 1: “The Angriest Men in Britain”, 60-minute documentary for
ITV about three men on a short fuse. Super 16mm. TX August 2002.
31% audience share ITV1.
Producer
ITV 1: “The Unluckiest Faces in Britain”, 60-minute documentary
for ITV about people whose lives have been shaped by their ugly
looks. Super16mm. TX August 2002. 37% audience share ITV1.
Short-listed Grierson Kodak Award Best Documentary 2003.
24 FRAMES-PER-SECOND FILMS
Writer/Producer/
Director
Co-writer/Producer/
Director
“Ad Infinitum”, 15-minute drama short about a woman’s reflections
on life. UK & Kosovo Albanian cast and co-directed with Altina
Ruli. Super 16mm. Screened at the Chichester Film Festival (2002)
and accompanied the English premiere of Lynne Ramsay’s feature
film Morvern Callar. Selected for Ljubljana International Film
Festival in Slovenia (2002) and screened in New York January 2003.
“Undone” – trailer for a feature film set in Kosovo following the
lives of three young people wrapped up in the aftermath of the
conflict in 1999. Cast included Serbian and Albanian actors. Cowrote script for full feature film with Altina Ruli. Shot on Super
16mm. 2004
OCTOBER FILMS
1996-2002
Producer
BBC Timewatch: “Kill ‘em All”, 50-minute documentary for
BBC2’s History strand Timewatch about US war crimes during the
Korean War (1950-53) and the Pentagon’s attempts to cover them
up. TX Feb 2002. Directed by Tom Roberts. Worked closely with a
team of Pulitzer Prize winning Associated Press Journalists in Korea
and the United States. Uncovered new evidence of war crimes
committed during the Korean War by US forces. Screened at the
Santa Cruz Film Festival June 2003. Digibeta.
Producer
BBC Modern Times: “London”, 90-minute observational
documentary for BBC2’s documentary strand Modern Times.
Twenty-two film crews across London capture the life of the capital
over a twenty-four hour period. Originated and produced the film
and managed a team of sixty. Film co-directed by Angus Macqueen
and Tom Roberts. Daily Telegraph Documentary of the Year. TX
September 2000. Digibeta.
Writer/Producer
Channel 4: “The Colour of Love”, 30-minute documentary for
Channel 4’s Adoption Season (2000) about black children adopted
into white families. Short-listed for a Prix Europa in 2000 in the
Social/History category. Director Denman Rooke. TX Feb 2000
Digibeta.
Producer
Channel 4: “The War Machine -‘Testing Times’”, 60-minute
observational documentary for Channel 4 about the secret scientific
establishment DERA which designed and developed new weapons
of war for the UK’s MoD. Worked as Associate Producer on two
additional films in the series about Future Infantry Soldier
Technology [FIST] and Naval weapons for coastal waters. Series
Directors Stephen Haggard & Kevin Hull. TX March 1997.
CONTENT IS KING 2000
Producer/Director
European Union: “The Euro for Europe” – 15 minute publicity
film subsequently used by schools and colleges to precede the arrival
of the single currency in Europe. Commissioned by the European
Union. Made in conjunction with London-based advertising and
media company Content Is King. 2000.
WALL TO WALL TV 1998
Writer/Producer
Channel 4: “Weekly Planet”, BAFTA nominated 90-minute live
current affairs discussion series chaired by Jon Snow for Channel 4.
‘Weekly Planet’ addressed current affairs topics including Algeria,
Kosovo and the media and democracy. TX June-July 1998
JUNIPER TV
1992-1995
Producer/Director
Channel 4:“The Goldring Audit” – series of three 60-minutes
documentaries presented by distinguished journalist Mary Goldring
about the UK’s export earning industries – motor manufacturing,
tourism and pharmaceuticals. TX C4 April 1995.
Associate Producer
Channel 4: ‘The Goldring Audit’ – a series of documentaries
presented by Mary Goldring about the UK’s creative industries – the
BBC, the record business and book publishing. TX C4 April 1994.
Researcher
Channel 4: ‘The Goldring Audit’ – a series of documentaries
presented by Mary Goldring about the UK’s privatised utilities –
electricity, telecoms and water. Gained access and liased with
Thames Water, London Electricity and British Telecom. Researched
the documentaries and undertook some directing. TX April 1993.
Researcher
Channel 4: “Answering Back’ - current affairs interview series in
which Susannah Simon’s interviewed international figures from the
world of business, industry and the arts, including Bill Gates,
Maurice Saatchi and Akio Morita, the founder of Sony. TX C4 1992
EUROMONEY
1992
Journalist
Completed trainee journalist position at Euromoney PLC . Wrote
financial articles and conducted interviews with leading bankers and
financiers for Corporate Finance magazine.
BBC RADIO
1990-1991
Reporter
Worked as a freelance reporter for BBC Radio and attended BBC
Radio training workshops. Worked for BBC Radio 4’s The Food
Programme. Produced and edited a twelve minute radio doc on the
privatisation of Hungary’s wine industry in 1991.
DECANTER
1988-1999
Journalist
Freelance writer on wine for Decanter, the world’s leading wine
magazine. Also wrote freelance for Wine Magazine, The Which?
Wine Guide in the UK and The Wine Enthusiast in the US. Won
the Martell Award for Excellence in 1992. Write today for
www.winewordsandvideotape.com as a fine wine blog principally
on the wines of Bordeaux. Site visted by 3000 people a month.
EDUCATION
St. John’s College,
Cambridge
Master of Philosophy in International Relations (1990-1991)
Bachelor of Arts in Geography, Class 2.1 (1987-1990)
St. John’s College,
Southsea
3 ‘A’ Levels in Politics, History and Geography (all grade A)
9 ‘O’ Levels [History, Politics, Geography, Physics, Chemisty,
English Language, English Literature, Maths and French]
DOCUMENTARY PRESS REVIEWS
DISPATCHES: ORPHANS OF BURMA’S CYCLONE C4
“Remarkable documentary...makes for heartbreaking yet utterly essential viewing moments
of deeply touching human kindness which endure despite the conditions”
Time Out
“Seminal programme.. the tales, the shots, the story are apocalyptic, devastating”
The Observer
“A remarkable, wrenching film...a potential award-winner”
The Sunday Times
“This is brave and important journalism”
The Guardian
“Moving and outrageous”
Financial Times
“Shocking film that lays bare the callous indifference of Burma’s generals”
The Mirror
“A bleak, thoughtful film that gives a disturbing account of the misery of the young
survivors”
The Evening Standard
BBC STORYVILLE: GHOSTS OF THE 7TH CAVALRY
“This fascinating, poignant, contemplative documentary weaves Major Robert ‘Snuffy’
Gray’s quest to meet up with surviving former army colleagues and find his own inner peace.
With Gray now an avowed pacifist who recognises the futility of war while striving for
reconciliation with the unit’s historical foes, this is a moving tribute to a remarkable man.”
Time Out
“This thoughtful documentary considers America’s long record of dubious treatment of
native peoples at home, in Vietnam and elsewhere.’
The Sunday Telegraph
“A moving study of the enduring potency of trauma and pride’
The Guardian
C4 RAMSAY’S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES, THE PRIORY
“A terrific new episode” The Daily Mail
C5 BEAT IT: THE BOY WITH A STAMMER
“Great stuff; if we were American we might even say it was inspirational”
The Evening Standard
C5 REAL WIFE SWAPS: THE BUSINESS OF SWINGING
‘Isn’t all just a little odd?’ asks the unseen person behind the camera on Real Wife Swaps,
with enviable comic timing…I began to wonder whether Real Wife Swaps might not be some
kind of excellent spoof…the programme had started to resemble closely a darker-thanaverage episode of the mock-documentary series Human Remains.
Giles Smith, The Sunday Telegraph
ITV1 THE TALLEST PEOPLE IN BRITAIN
“It doesn’t feel exploitative or crude: subjects are not treated as freaks but are handled
sensitively.”
Time Out
“I liked this film…..This was not a freak show, it was a tender look at four people who feel
different, isolated by their size”
The Guardian
“This poignant film……a moving documentary”
The Sun
ITV1 THE ANGRIEST MEN IN BRITAIN
“I was gulping at the sadness of it all”
Sunday Telegraph
“Wonderful, powerful and strangely affecting television……."
The Daily Telegraph
ITV1 THE UNLUCKIEST FACES IN BRITAIN
“Amazingly thoughtful documentary."
The Daily Telegraph
“A sensitively made programme about quiet desperation."
The Daily Express
“Thoughtful and rather uplifting.”
The Financial Times
“Thoughtful, engaging and really rather sensitive.”
The Times
BBC 2 TIMEWATCH: KILL ‘EM ALL
“Tim Piggott-Smith narrates, and it’s hard not to be reminded of his role as the gung-ho
general in Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday drama. Although the two incidents differed
enormously, both resulted from a form of paranoia in which figures who posed no threat were
crazily perceived as hostile.”
The Sunday Times
“Stomach-churning. At the heart of the film is an account of the massacre of No Gun Ri, as
documented in the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation undertaken by AP journalists….This
film helps explain how a million Korean civilians died...””
The Financial Times
“A real jaw-dropper…echoes of last week’s Holocaust Conspiracy.”
The Evening Standard
“Distressing…devastating.”
The Mail on Sunday