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The true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman, who enters one of the most daring nautical challenges in the world.
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Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell
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Louise Osmond, Director Louise Osmond studied modern history at Oxford before joining ITN’s editorial trainee program. She worked in the Europe bureau covering events in Brussels, Paris and Rome and as a foreign desk editor in London. As a documentary director, her recent work includes three feature-length films: Blitz: London’s Firestorm (Channel 4/PBS; short-listed for a 2006 Grierson Award), The Search for the Northwest Passage (Channel 4/PBS) and Looking For Victoria (BBC1). Other recent credits include Why We Went to War (opening More 4’s Iraq Season), The Real Hughie Green (Channel 4), Timewatch: Death of the Battleship (BBC2) and To the Ends of the Earth: Hell on High Water (Channel 4/CNN). She is a freelance director and co-founder of the production company World’s End Pictures. Jerry Rothwell, Director Jerry Rothwell, an experienced documentary filmmaker with over 10 years broadcast experience, has been researching the story behind DEEP WATER for several years. Other TV directing credits include The Late George Shaw (2004, with Tamara MacLachlan), two short films in Channel 4’s Modern Painters series (2003) and Fact Plus Fiction (2001). Rothwell played a lead role in developing Hi8us’ award-winning improvised dramas with young people for Channel 4, and in establishing First Light, the Film Council’s program for young filmmakers, which has supported over 500 films. He continues to work with Hi8us, most recently developing a Web-based digital storytelling project with Roma communities in Slovakia. He is now in production on his second feature documentary, Heavy Load. Al Morrow, Producer Al Morrow brought DEEP WATER to APT Films as an independent producer and has since joined the company as a development executive. DEEP WATER was her first full-length documentary feature for cinema. She is now producing Heavy Load a feature documentary about a punk band made up of musicians with and without learning disabilities, also directed by Jerry Rothwell. Morrow is the founder of Stir Fried Films (co-producers of DEEP WATER) with Ben Ridley and Jonathan Banatvala. Jonny Persey, Producer Jonny Persey is an independent film producer and managing director of APT Films. He studied psychology at Cambridge and spent many years as a youth worker and training consultant before producing his first feature film Everyone’s Child in Zimbabwe (1996). He trained at the National Film and Television School, producing a series of acclaimed short films. In 2004, he produced his second feature, Wondrous Oblivion, starring Delroy Lindo, Emily Woof and Sam Smith.. Persey is currently in production on three micro-budget features. He is the school director of the Metropolitan Film School at Ealing Studios, serves on PACT’S Film Policy Group and is a member of ACE. John Smithson, Producer John Smithson is founder and creative director of Darlow Smithson Productions, a multi-award-winning independent TV and film production company based in London. Widely regarded as an industry leader in high quality factual programming, DSP has achieved worldwide recognition for its groundbreaking documentaries, series and docudramas. Smithson has extensive experience as producer, director and executive producer and has won more than 20 international awards, including recognition from BAFTA, the RTS and the U.S. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He produced Touching The Void, the most successful British theatrical documentary in U.K. box office history and winner of 15 awards, including Outstanding British Film in the BAFTA Film Awards. His most recent TV work is as creator and executive producer of Alive, a 20-part docudrama series for Discovery Channel U.S. and Channel 4. Read more about the film >> View more filmmakers >> |
