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16/11/2023

Who's enjoying and '007 Road to a Million' ? Stern and Wild director Tom Dumican was lucky enough to travel to some iconic James Bond locations shooting this epic adventure gameshow. With the perfect baddie, Logan Roy front and centre!

16/11/2023

After 3 years' work, Lost Cities Revealed With Albert Lin drops on the streamers today

Hostile environment extravaganza Lost Cities Revealed with Albert Lin goes live tonight on Nat Geo, Disney+ and Hulu for its second season. Commissioner-facing Showrunner/Series Director Eoin O’Shea http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/eoin-oshea has spent 3 years on the production, from development to delivery, for Raw TV.

https://vimeo.com/885253899?share=copy

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02/11/2023

The last unheard Beatles song, Now And Then, comes out today!

From Stern & Wild filmmaker Oliver Murray http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/oliver-murray , director of RONNIE’S, MY LIFE AS A ROLLING STONE and THEY ALL CAME OUT TO MONTREUX, comes NOW & THEN, THE LAST BEATLES SONG, a short film exploring �the extraordinary story of John, Paul, George and Ringo’s momentous final musical collaboration featuring never before seen footage from the studio and unreleased music. The film was made with the full support of the Lennon and Harrison Estates and in collaboration with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.

Now and Then, the film, will be broadcast on BBC One tonight:

The One Show on BBC One – an extended edition on Wednesday 1 November (7pm-7.45pm), with BBC Radio 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne introducing and commenting on the exclusive UK TV broadcast of Now And Then – The Last Beatles Song – a poignant short film, written and directed by Oliver Murray, which tells the story behind the track.

Here's the trailer https://vimeo.com/876294107/eb80deb88e

From filmmaker Oliver Murray, director of Ronnie’s, My Life As A Rolling Stone and They All Came out To Montreux, comes the short film 'NOW & THEN,…

26/10/2023

F***y: The Other Mendelsohnn is the feature doc executive produced by Annabel Hobley http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/annabel-hobley for Dartmouth Films and Mercury Studios. It already has a four-star review from the Guardian and goes on general cinema release across England and Wales after premiering at The Picturehouse, Fulham on Friday October 27

"Take a celebrated musical genius, sibling rivalry, an unknown manuscript, some very persistent research and one sensational revelation, and what have you got? F***Y: THE OTHER MENDELSSOHN – the documentary from BAFTA-winning director Sheila Hayman that features global Decca star, Isata Kanneh-Mason."

https://youtu.be/_RSeqw1ziC0?si=u4x0aPFNr3UBRTFB

20/10/2023

Tom Macdonald announced three major new Nat Geo productions this week in Deadline, and Stern & Wild clients have been busy making, well, … all of them!
https://deadline.com/2023/10/idris-elba-nat-geo-world-war-two-people-of-color-1235573978/

They are:

Inside The FBI - October Films
Showrunner - Tom Stubberfield
Executive Producer - Johanna Gibbon https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/johanna-gibbon

Waking The Dead - Wall To Wall
Series Director - Tom Beard http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/tom-beard

The Colour of Victory: Heroes of WW2 - October Films
Director - Alex Thomas https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/alex-thomas
Co-Executive Producer - Annabel Hobley http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/annabel-hobley
Executive Producer - Johanna Gibbon https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/johanna-gibbon

17/10/2023

We might be defining a new job role in tv production now - super-numerary consultancy by very good exec producers and other expert production people on a few days' or weeks' basis.
https://ow.ly/qfst50PXBi0

29/09/2023

Massive congratulations to Miles Blayden-Ryall https://ow.ly/QVFa50PR2YM , Director/Producer/Camera of Silverback - winner of 3 separate awards at last night’s Jackson Wild Media Awards 2023 https://ow.ly/fjKw50PR2YN .

Silverback won the overall events Grand Teton Award, as well as the People and Nature - Long Form category and Best Onscreen Personality. The 90-minute feature documentary, made by Off The Fence for the BBC, was filmed in very remote parts of the Democratic Republic.

We are delighted with this recognition of Miles’ excellence and look forward to watching his next production.

24/08/2023

Fingers crossed for a big impact as Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn, the glossy 2-part doc series from Box To Box streams on Apple+ from tomorrow. The critics like it already, our favourite so far is from Rolling Stone Magazine:

“It turns out Wanted isn’t just an investigation; it’s also a caper, depicted in reenactments that boast the editing and cinematography chops of an Ocean’s Eleven movie. The series has its cake and eats it, too, blending high-stakes, shoe-leather reporting with thriller sizzle.”

Shot by director James Jones, the series was written and crafted from frame to frame by top Senior Edit Producer Kate Hampel https://ow.ly/7rpq50PCZQl , and the story originated with co-executive producer Chris Martin https://ow.ly/utfv50PCZQn .

https://ow.ly/VWmw50PCZQm

Money. Power. A CEO turned fugitive. Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn premieres August 25 on Apple TV+ https://apple.co/_CarlosGhosnThe riveting story of C...

24/08/2023

Swamp Kings go straight to No1 in the Netflix US charts!
Congratulations to Raw TV, Series Director Kat English http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/katharine-english helming Swamp Kings and producer Chris Wilson http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/chris-wilson. Within a few hours of dropping on Netflix, the 4-part series is already today’s most watched Netflix show in the USA! https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=81305970

24/08/2023

Swamp Kings go straight to No1 in the Netflix US charts!
Congratulations to Raw TV, Series Director Kat English https://ow.ly/RE4I50PCWIe who helmed Swamp Kings and producer Chris Wilson https://ow.ly/t1Z950PCWIc . Within a few hours of dropping on Netflix, the 4-part series is already today’s most watched Netflix show in the USA! https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=81305970

22/08/2023

Swamp Kings Set To Sweep Screens:
Today, the new Netflix 4-part Doc series Untold: Swamp Kings starts streaming. Nearly two and a half million people have already viewed the trailer on Twitter (aka X). It’s going to be a crowd puller! And of course Stern & Wild is delighted to congratulate our members Chris Wilson (Series Producer) http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/chris-wilson and Kat English (Series Director) http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/katharine-english for making it at Raw TV in the first place.
https://ow.ly/lyvt50PBX9n

After a blazing run in the 1990s under Coach Steve Spurrier, the University of Florida’s winning streak had dried up by 2005. Enter Urban Meyer, the Gators’ ...

21/08/2023

New job open, head of BBC Studios's Docs Unit. Conflicting signals on timescale - no closing date for applications but interviews in September.
https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Head-of-Genre-The-Documentary-Unit/777036302/

21/07/2023

Five excellent Stern & Wild people find their productions shortlisted for the 2023 Grierson Awards. Our agency's delight in their recognition is compounded by our relief that none of them are actually competing with each other for the same award!

Ruth Shurman https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/ruth-shurman is Co-Executive Producer and Duncan Coates http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/duncan-coates is Series Editor of the multimillion dollar Disney+ series Limitless (Nutopia), of which the 6th episode is nominated on its own for Best Science Documentary.

Clare Richards https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/clare-richards is Series Director of Sky’s Scouting For Girls: Fashion’s Darkest Secret (Wonderhood Studios) which is nominated for Best Documentary Series.

Tom Dumican https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/tom-dumican is a Director on Disney+ 4-parter David Beckham: Save Our Squad (Studio 99/Twenty Twenty), nominated for Best Formatted or Constructed Documentary Series.

Chris Wilson http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/chris-wilson , often better known as a showrunner, director and former Sky commissioner, is the Editor of Becoming Frida Kahlo (Rogan Productions), nominated for Best Arts Documentary.

06/07/2023

Well done Vice News for winning the Best Programme Acquisition title at last night’s Broadcast Digital Awards 2023 last night. And let us add our own congratulations to the original commissioner at Vice and executive producer of the 45’ documentary, Milène Larsson The multi-talented Milène has very recently joined Stern & Wild, and we very much look forward to helping her career develop from here.

https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/milene-larsson

18/04/2023

Documentary Production: Increasing use of Consultant executive producers / directors / senior edit producers, and why that is.

At Stern & Wild we’re taking on board a growing trend in production companies taking on senior editorial skills for limited-days advisory roles to make sure individual productions go well.

Executive Producers - Head of Department-level and Commissioner-level execs are taken on for a set number of days to improve and add weight to a pitch, to increase the confidence of a commissioner in the the safe delivery of a project, and of course to guide or rescue a production in danger of going awry. They advise the existing executive producer of the project.

Directors - film-makers with a strong reputation can be brought in to add a Director’s Vision, making a pitch stronger and more attractive to the commissioner.

Senior Edit Producers - series producer-level specialist edit producers, of whom there are really only a handful in our genre, come in to set up the post-production structure, rebuild the storyline in the edit, who are commissioner-facing and and train an expert eye on those notes. They guide a team of edit producers to work to a single narrative, but they don’t need to be in place permanently across the edit schedule.

Instead of being booked for weeks on end, the consultant can work across a production schedule for an agreed number of days. It’s an economical way to hire the skills that you need, the consultant’s daily fee is a bit higher than their pro-rata ongoing weekly rate and you need them for less time.

Our conclusion is that the work-from-home ethos that was turbo-charged during the covid pandemic is still ongoing, and that production teams are becoming ever more flexible. Production companies may want their senior creatives permanently on hand in the building, but this is also a financially efficient way to hire the talent and skills they need and only when they need them.

20/02/2023

Paul Mitchell http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/paul-mitchell international affairs specialist and fluent Russian-speaker, co-directed with Anastasia Popova tonight’s Storyville film, looking at the generational disconnect within Russian families in the face of war in the Ukraine. It’s a BBC Studios production, and if you can’t wait until tonight, just watch it on iPlayer now https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001jdxk/storyville-inside-russia-traitors-and-heroes

20/02/2023

It was a BFI Screen 1 sell-out UK premiere of Subject https://www.subject.film/ last Friday night. If you work in documentary and don’t know about this film yet, you will hear more about it soon.
The feature doc raises the question of where the lines of ethics and responsibility lie between film-makers and the people whose stories they tell, and whose lives may never be the same again. It draws on the experiences of key contributors from Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, The Staircase, Three Identical Strangers, Leaving Neverland and other high profile feature docs.
This picture shows Camilla Hall (in the denim dress) http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/camilla-hall with her co-director, Jennifer Tiexiera, in the following Q+A session moderated by Kim Longinotto and joined by The Staircase ‘subject’ Margie Blakemore.

14/02/2023

Some of our directors keep one foot in Documentary, where we represent them, and the other in Drama productions where we don’t. One is Sid Bennett http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/sid-bennett writer/director of Studio Canal’s fantasy thriller feature ’The Dinosaur Project'. We’re delighted to hear that Sid is now in talks with a major international studio to produce his sci-fi screenplay ‘Harvist’, which had already been chosen as an award-winning pilot by the Cinestory Foundation https://cinestory.org/

09/02/2023

Congratulations to Rowan Deacon http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/rowan-deacon and her colleagues at 72 Films for winning last night’s Best Documentary Series with the jaw-dropping Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story https://www.netflix.com/title/81520549 at the Broadcast Awards 2023.

08/02/2023

All relevant digits are being crossed tonight at Stern & Wild Towers for three of our members - Alex Thomas https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/alex-thomas , Rowan Deacon http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/rowan-deacon and Julia Harrington https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/julia-harrington - who are each in the running for the Broadcast Awards https://broadcastawards.co.uk/welcome tonight.

Alex with Britain’s Secret War Babies and Julia with Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen are competing in the Best Specialist Factual Programme category.

Rowan’s remarkable Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story is competing for Best Documentary Series

18/11/2022

Congratulations to Executive Producer Emma Whitlock http://ow.ly/Oni850LHZu5 and the team at Naked TV for delivering Channel 5 series Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live. Live on My5 here http://ow.ly/ofuz50LHZu1

16/11/2022

Limitless drops on Disney+ today, helmed by two top Stern & Wild producers

Limitless with Chris Hemsworth http://ow.ly/faCE50LGgQO drops on Disney+ today - with help from Showrunner Ruth Shurman http://ow.ly/QNmH50LGgQL and Series Editor Duncan Coates http://ow.ly/aPBT50LGgQK

The series took over two years to make – and to capture the stories you see in Limitless, the team carried out 62 shoots in 12 countries across a total of 175 filming days. They endured strict isolation rules as indie Nutopia filmed the series during the height of Covid. In total, the production teams spent 733 days - that's more than two years - in solitary hotel quarantine.

http://ow.ly/6pqN50LGgQI

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26/10/2022

Earthstorm hits Netflix today

Wall To Wall’s 4 x 60’ big budget international series documenting the human cost of Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Volcanoesand Hurricanes drops on Netflix today. Series Produced by the excellent Will Aslett http://ow.ly/pLBm50LlgCv - you can find his details at Stern & Wild.

See the full production here http://ow.ly/2nTE50LlgCw

http://ow.ly/WP1j50LlgCs

Storm chasers, survivors and first responders recount their harrowing experiences with volcanoes, tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes.SUBSCRIBE: http://bit...

21/07/2022

We started this week with five Stern & Wild Emmy nominees, and now we can announce another five Grierson Award final nominees within our agency - including two double-nominations.

Our compliments go to:

George Hencken, Producer of The Sparks Brothers
https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/george-hencken

and

Chris Wilson , Editor of Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/chris-wilson
(yes, Chris is also a top showrunner and director when not cutting)

Both of them are nominated for the Sky Docs Best Music Documentary Award

Sampson Collins - Director of Gazza
https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/sampson-collins
Nominated for the Red Bull Best Sports Documentary Award and the Netflix Best Documentary Series Award

Helen Nixon - Series Director of Empire State of Mind
https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/helen-nixon

for which Sathnam Sanghera is nominated for the Disney+ Best Documentary Presenter Award

David Belton - Co-Director and co-Writer of Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11
https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/david-belton

Nominated for the Best History Documentary Award

and

David Belton was also a Director of Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution
https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/david-belton

Nominated for the Netflix Best Documentary Series Award

19/07/2022

The 5 Stern & Wild film-makers in line for an Emmy in 2022

The Emmys will be awarded in September, and five Stern & Wild people are waiting to see if their productions will get the prize. But Tom Beard https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-beard-217b1a12/ knows already that the award is his - Tom directed Apple+ feature The Year The Earth Changed, and he will pick up the 15th Television Academy Honors https://www.emmys.com/awards/honors/15th trophy for exceptional television programs that are impacting society through thoughtful, powerful, and innovative storytelling. He shares the award with executive producers Alice Keens-Soper and Mike Gunton.

Robin O’Sullivan https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/robin-osullivan was series producer and now is executive producer of Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy which is in line for a slew of Emmy categories, including Outstanding Hosted Non-Fiction Series or Special. That production team included edit producers Archie Powell https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/archie-powell and Helen Nixon https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/helen-nixon .

But the Tucci series faces serious competition in the Outstanding Hosted Non-Fiction Series or Special category from The World According to Jeff Goldblum, on which Karen McGann https://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/karen-mcgann worked across 8 episodes.

We wish them all an armful of gilt on September 12th.

01/07/2022

Congratulations to Stern & Wild film-makers - Sam Anthony, director and series producer, and his colleague director Ollie Murray for making major BBC four-parter My Life As As Rolling Stone.

The series launches on BBC Two tomorrow, Saturday July 2, and will be available in full on iPlayer. Executive producer is Steve Condie for Mercury Studios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxsfHtUGlMc

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07/06/2022

Are you at the Tribeca Film Festival next week? SUBJECT has its world premiere in the Documentary Competition - co-Directed, co-Produced, and co-Written by Stern & Wild's own https://www.linkedin.com/in/camilla-hall-04826792/ Camilla has been shortlisted before at Tribeca for Best Documentary

SUBJECT is a feature film that explores the ethics & responsibilities inherent in . This film puts some of the most successful documentaries over the past three decades under the microscope, revealing the impact their commercial success has had on the lives of the onscreen participants. See https://tribecafilm.com/films/subject-2022

Screening on June 11 (sold out), 13 and 18 (still on sale)

07/06/2022

Cheering news of slate growth for Stern & Wild member James Abadi and his indie Dr Pluto
https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/indies/dr-pluto-broadens-horizons-following-fremantle-split/5171352.article

27/05/2022

It's a World Premiere for Simon Tucker’s feature doc Chasing at Mountain Film at the Telluride Festival this week.

https://www.mountainfilm.org/media/chasing

An American athlete is fed up with silver medals, a pro baseball career foiled by injury and narrowly missing out on the Olympic rowing team. Restless and looking for a win, he discovers a 3,000- mile rowing race. Jason aims to win the race and smash the record for the fastest crossing. Ten days in,...

25/05/2022

Congratulations to Stern & Wild director Nick Aldridge - shortlisted for the Broadcast Digital Awards: Best Documentary http://ow.ly/xzR150JhFC5 for The Boy With The 8 Hour Heart. Watch it here: http://ow.ly/jGR750JhFC4

23/05/2022

BAFTA-winning docs director Zoe Dobson has a beautiful new website https://zoedobson.co.uk/ and an excellent new agent https://rts.org.uk/person/natalie-spanier

I am award winning director who sets out to make films that are provocative, engaging and stylish.

23/05/2022

BAFTA-winning docs director Zoe Dobson has a beautiful new website https://zoedobson.co.uk/ and an excellent new agent https://rts.org.uk/person/natalie-spanier

I am award winning director who sets out to make films that are provocative, engaging and stylish.

23/05/2022

On June 8th, brilliant Stern & Wild science director and producer Micky Lachman http://ow.ly/bjwN50JfpgR joins Professor Brian Cox and exec Ash Potterton at the RTS to talk about their big BBC feature doc Seven Days On Mars, made at Arrow Media
See this for details: http://ow.ly/7r3L50JfpgS

Brian Cox to join panel to discuss production of upcoming BBC programme