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1 Address 83, Devonshire Road, Chiswick, London W4 2HU 33, Salisbury Road, Redland, Bristol, BS6 7AR Tel Mobile 44 (0) e mail graham@grahamstrong.co.uk web Education Aylesbury Grammar; A level: Geography History Sociology Berkhamsted School; O level: Art English Maths French Geography Biology Physics History University of East Anglia BA Hons Economics and Geography St Martins College of Art Post Graduate Film and Photography National Film School: Lighting Camera Bristol University ITCA Multi Camera Directors course. Skills Firmly established as Producer/Director who can shoot the entire film if needs be I know how to tell a great story and recognize strong contributors. I ve made one-off documentaries, self shot observational films and popular factual series for UK and US prime time that have sold worldwide. I m well used to making presenter led programmes too, working with A list talent from Kevin McCloud, James May and Peter Snow to Ruby Wax. Experienced digital video camera operator with extensive hours on Sony Digi 700, DSR 450, HD: 750 and RED. I have attended recent BBC camera courses at Evesham. Owner of HJ 11 and 20 Canon HD cine style zooms. Clean driving license, Yachtmasters cerfificate, RYA Sailing Instructor, RYA Sea Survival, experienced operating abroad and alone or as a team member, BBC Health and Safety Course. Current I VISA. BBC Trust Module. Recent Industry Awards Nomination 2010 BAFTA Best Feature BAFTA Scotland: Winner Best Arts film Celtic Film Festival: Spirit of Festival Best Film BP: Arts Film of the Year New York Film and TV Festival Thistle Award Winner Best TV Series Nominations MTV Prix Italia and BAFTA Documentary.

2 Broadcast Credits Making Scotland s Landscape Producer Director 1x 60. Landmark environmental history series presented by geologist Dr Iain Stewart. I was responsible for the film looking at man s impact on the marine landscape over the last 1000 years. Actuality filming included complex underwater sync sequences whilst post production involved detailed storyboards for CGI elements. TX BBC1 Scotland November 2010 BBC2 Network Feb 2011 James May s Toy Stories Producer/Director/Camera 2 x 60 Plum Pictures for BBC2. The series follows James on a mission to take some Britain s best-loved toys and put generations of families at the heart of some ludicrously ambitious adventures with toys that have captured the imagination. In each episode James is faced with a new artistic or engineering challenge. Self shot ob docs with historical archive and multi unit coverage of final mass public event. I was responsible for making two films chosen as the first two shows in this landmark series : the first looks at creating a Plasticine garden and entering it into the Chelsea Flower Show. The second film follows James attempting to build a full size model Spitfire. Both films were top rating shows of the week on BBC2. This really is marvelous, funny, educational, weirdly inspiring and pleasingly whimsical The Guardian. terrific fun The Observer. Executive Producer: Will Dawes. TX BBC2 November The Secret Life of a Song: Auld Lang Syne Producer/Director 30 Skyline for BBC1 Scotland Artworks and BBC4. Every year Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne is sung around the globe by millions but even in Scotland few know all the words, fewer know what they mean and hardly anyone knows where the song came from and how it has traveled so far. Interweaving actuality and anecdotal interviews this film looks at how a song by Robert Burns became a global phenomenon. Filmed in HD and RED. Executive Producer: Leslie Hills.TX December Man Vs Wild: China Producer/Director. Bear Grylls demonstrates survival techniques in the jungles of southern China during one of the worst typhoons to of the last ten years. Diverse for Discovery US TX When Romeo Met Juliet Multi Camera Director for final part of three part ob doc series BBC Bristol for BBC2. TX June The British Guide to Showing Off Multi camera Director on Feature length documentary by award winning filmmaker Jes Benstock following British artist Andrew Logan as he puts together his outrageous, anarchic and spectacular costume pageant: The Alternative Miss World Show..I was responsible for directing seven HD cameras including Louma crane and Steadicam at the live show at The Roundhouse. Living Cinema funded by BBC Films and Film London. Theatrical release: Berlin Film Festival 2010.

3 Grand Designs Producer/Director/Camera on prime time Channel 4 series where landmark building projects are followed by presenter Kevin McCloud. I was responsible for casting, researching, filming and editing three films of this high profile show. Midlothian (TX March 08) Follows a couple building a large modernist house on a disused lime quarry south of Edinburgh. Exeter Follows Peter and Christine Benjamin who are building a Pavilion house inspired by the architecture of Mies Van Der Rohe in an ancient walled garden in Devon. But as the project gets underway, Peter, who is a trained physicist thinks he can match his architects design skills with his own scientific knowledge. He decides to make some fundamental design changes of his own in order to make a more practical space. In Ringwood The contributors dream home in the New Forest was destroyed by a chimney fire and they discovered they weren t insured. Despite losing everything they are determined to rebuild their thatched cottage bigger and better than before, combining traditional building methods with contemporary design. Eager to get started and up to their eyes in debt they charge ahead without having got the finance in place, get dropped by their mortgage company and find it difficult for any bank to give them a loan. Ely Looks at a couple who set about, literally, to self build not just a stunning eco home but a whole new sustainable life for their family in the Cambridgeshire Fens. The complex hexagonal oak frame and straw bale house is built around an 800 year old oak tree that has to be carved into a spiral staircase. Filmed over two years this project turns into a journey of Herculean scale when the contributors try to lift the huge oak beams weighing half a ton each, into position themselves using only a simple pulley and car jack. Executive Producer: Charlie Bunce. Series Producer: Fiona Caldwell. Talkback Thames for C Vertical City Producer/Director 10 part architecture and engineering series looking at iconic skyscrapers. I shot Chicago and Atlanta episodes. Electric Sky for More 4 and Sky Arts HD. TX March Born Survivor Bear Grylls 60 survival film. Top rating film on DCI of Diverse Bristol for C4 and DCI.

4 2005 Who Owns Britain Producer/Director for BBC2 90 special where Peter and Dan Snow travel the length of Britain to answer the complex question: Who Owns Britain. Producer: Jo Vale. Executive Producer: Mike Poole Magic Producer/Director on prime time BBC2 series exploring the history of magic and illusion. I was responsible for the 60 film that looked at how magic practice has always been associated with spiritual and religious practices. The film combines extensive period reconstruction with archive footage, anecdotal interviews and actuality sequences. Series Producer: Kerry Richardson. Executive Producer: Andy Batten Foster You Can t Take it With You Producer/Director/Camera 2x 30 films for BBC2 looking at the wills of the rich and famous. I was responsible for researching, location finding, filming and all negotiations with contributors for the shows looking at Andy Warhol and Bob Marley. The films combine biography with post death narrative using actuality filming, anecdotal interviews and archive. Created the look and style of all graphic sequences for the 12 part series. Series Producer: Jo Vale. Executive Producer: Andy Batten Foster. 2002/2003 Design Rules Producer/Director 6 x 30 BBC Bristol for BBC2 Psychology and science of design presented by Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen. Executive Producer: Dick Colthurst. 2001/2002 Mad about Food Producer/ Director of 60 BBC2 series exploring food in post war Britain as seen through the eyes of leading chefs. Developed format for series that combined biographies of well known chefs (Delia Smith, Jamie Oliver, Fanny Craddock) with food trends in UK. Actuality sequences and anecdotal interviews integrated with archive footage and period reconstruction. Executive Producers: Richard Klein & Katie Lander. 2000/2001 Shopology Producer/Director of 2 x 60 BBC2 documentaries looking at global consumerism and the art of selling. Reviewed in the Guardian: compulsive if paranoid television. Series Producer Jo Vale. Executive Producer: Mark Hill. Buyology Producer/Director 1x 50 BBC for TLC. Series Producer: Jo Vale.

5 2001 Moby Producer/Multi camera Director end of world tour live concert broadcast Skyline Productions for MTV US. Producer Leslie Hills. Gentleman Builder Ob/doc looking at the architectural transformation of The British Museum Central Court. Director/Camera. World of Wonder for C4. Wild About Chelsea Director/camera on prime time observational 50 C4 documentary following horticulturist Carol Klein designing and growing a garden for the Chelsea Flower Show. Reviewed in Observer absorbing well told story. First Circle Films for C4 Features. The Viewing Room Director TV Industry debate presented by Kaye Adams. Series Producer: Jo Vale. Mentorn for BBC2. Away with Words Fact/Entertainment series exploring the roots of the English language. Presenter Neil Innes. Director Imago Productions for ITV/Discovery. Get Wrecked Director/Camera. diving, marine archaeology. Executive Producer: Alan Clements. BBC2. Garden Party 10 x 30 Series Director of program looking at the relationship people have with their gardens. Producer Amanda Lowe. Executive Producer: Brian Lapping. Brook Lapping for C4. Wild Harvest Series Director of innovative food and travel show presented by Nick Nairn. Six 30 shows initially shown on BBC Scotland then BBC2 network. Nominated for BAFTA Scotland Best Factual Series. Executive Producer: Hamish Barbour. Ideal World for BBC2. Edinburgh s Hogmanay Live outside broadcast featuring music, street theatre,dance and fireworks. Inserts to BBC One Hogmanay Show Executive Producer: Leslie Hills. Skyline Productions. An Italian Christmas Director of critically acclaimed 30 BBC2 observational documentary behind the scenes at the River Café restaurant featuring first television appearance of Jamie Oliver. Ideal World for BBC2. Commissioning Editor: Adam Kemp.

6 The Score Producer/Director of successful education series for C4 that looked at six well known classical music compositions. Features dramatic multi camera performance footage of Scottish Chamber Orchestra inter cut with anecdotal interviews and presenter links. 6x15. STV for C4. The Big Country Series Director/Camera of 10 x 30 shows for BBC1 Scotland combining adventure travel and wildlife. Responsible for creating the strong visual style of the show which included titles and stings and directed up to four digi crews on a weekly fast turnaround schedule. Executive Producer: Jane Root. Wall to Wall for BBC One Scotland. Tree of Knowledge Producer/Director. 4 x 24 Arts docs.16mm STV. Psychiatrists Chair with Anthony Clare Adapted Produced and Directed successful radio show for STV/C4. On the Edge Prod/Dir 50 innovative award winning drama documentary looking at the roots of Celtic Culture. Filmed by Oscar and Emmy nominated cinematographer Ellen Kuras. 16mm ITV. The Language of the Gael Prod/Dir. 50 profile 4 unaccompanied Gaelic singers. 16mm. STV. City of Lights Prod/Dir 90 music documentary on Gaelic rock group Runrig. Super 16mm. STV/C4. Simple Minds in Europe Prod/Dir 1x40 music doc ITV. Aly Bain and Friends Prod/Director 6x40 world music. STV/C Scottish Television Producer Director in Arts, Documentary and Drama Departments. Station Controller: Gus MacDonald. Developed innovative entertainment shows with Stephen Fry, Alan Cumming and Rory Bremner Scottish Television Cameraman Credits: Taggart, Menuhin, Edinburgh Nights, The Light and the Land. Tiree. (Producer/Director/Camera) The Guardian. Photographer.

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