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Filmography
2000 Director, author, BELFAST MY LOVE,
90 minute documentary for ARTE (France-Germany) and RTE
(Ireland). A personal look at my native Northern Ireland.
2001-2002 Writer for Octopus
Television, London for three new tv series.
1997-98 Writer FREEDOM, first episode
of 10 hour tv series on the American Novel for WNET/13, New
York
1996-97 Executive Producer, writer,
WILLIAM STYRON, 56 minute doc on the author of Sophie’s
Choice for FR3, France, ‘écrivains du 20éme siècle’
1995 Executive Producer, series writer,
AMERICAN CINEMA, a 10 part series of 54 minute documentaries
on the history and tradition of Hollywood cinema. PBS/BBC/
Premiere Gmbh Hamburg/Dentsu, Japan. Broadcast France and
Spain on Canal Plus. Over 1OO interviews with American
cinema professionals including producers, writers,
designers, cinematographers.
1991-94 Director and writer, AMERICAN
CINEMA. Directed episodes on ‘The Hollywood Style’ with
Martin Scorsese, Sydney Pollack, Joseph Mankiewicz, Bertrand
Tavernier, Laurence Kasdan and others; ‘The Hollywood Star,’
with Julia Roberts, Jack Lemmon, Jane Russell, Jon Waters;
and ‘The Combat Film;’ with Sam Fuller and Oliver Stone.
1991 Executive Producer, ANNA AKHMATOVA,
FEAR AND MUSE, documentary on the legendary Russian poet,
narrated by Claire Bloom, PBS
1989-90 Director and writer, JOSEPH
BRODSKY, a 60 minute doc on the Nobel Prize winning Russian
poet. Channel 4/UK and PBS. Filmed on location in Leningrad,
Moscow and New York.
1989-90 Executive Producer, ‘LUCIANO
PAVAROTTI’ for PBS and BBC, Filmed in Modena Italy.
1983-88 Director, Writer, Producer,
VOICES AND VISIONS, thirteen one hour films for U.S. public
television and global broadcast on American poets from Walt
Whitman to Sylvia Plath. I directed the episodes on Ezra
Pound, Hart Crane, T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath. The series
was broadcast in January 1988 and named ‘Best cultural
series of the year,’ by Time Magazine. The documentaries
received numerous awards including gold prize for ‘Sylvia
Plath’ at the Chicago Film Festival. Four of the
documentaries were co-productions - with WDR, ADR and
Channel 4.
1982 Co-writer NEW DEAL FOR ARTISTS,
narrated by Orson Welles, PBS.
1980 Commissioned by United Nations
Documentary Film Unit to write documentary film on The
Sudan.
1979-80 Writer, JOCELYN COTTAGE, 90
minute un-produced drama for BBC Television.
1977-78 Writer and Director, THE NEW
SOUTH, four half-hour docs on the American south for BBC
PANORAMA.
1972-73 Writer and presenter IN TWO
MINDS, BBC 2 special on the two cultures in Northern
Ireland.
1971-72 Journalist and on-camera
presenter, BBC Television, PANORAMA. Wrote and presented
documentaries from the Middle East including ‘West Bank
Palestinians’ and ‘Israeli-Palestinian dialogue.’
1969-71 Journalist and on-camera
presenter, BBC Television, London. Among the documentary
shorts I wrote and presented for the BBC were ‘Jean Paul
Sartre;’ ‘A short history of the Guillotine;’ ‘Tito in
Yugoslavia;’ ‘Drugs in Amsterdam;’ ‘Jane Birkin;’ ‘South
African elections 1970;’ ‘Lesotho.’
1969 On camera BBC journalist in
Belfast during the outbreak of civil strife in Northern
Ireland
1969 Director ‘PR and the
Nigerian:Biafran Civil War,’ a 40 minute documentary. Also
documentary shorts on ‘Butlins’ and ‘Life of a Priest.’
1969 Production Assistant, BBC
Television, London, 24 HOURS, wrote and produced magazine
segments for nightly news show.
1967-68 On Camera journalist, CFTO,
Toronto, Canada and CBC, Vancouver
1965-67 Journalist and on-camera
presenter, BBC Belfast. Wrote and narrated over 100 tv
films, news shorts and magazine pieces.
1965 (While undergraduate) Chosen as
interviewer for ‘More Than Meets The Eye,’ a 5 part BBC 2
series on the impact of television.
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