Producer/Director/Researcher and archive specialist working on network TV programmes, films, adverts and online digital content for UK and worldwide release. My productions have won many awards in the UK and abroad. Of Time and the City, first screened at Cannes and BAFTA nominated, was in Time magazine’s top ten films of 2009 also voted best non-fiction film by the New York’s Film Critic’s Circle.
I have worked for many of the UK’s leading TV and film companies: Working Title, IWC, Avalon, Endemol, Granada, Hurricane Films, Mentorn, Shine, Talkback, Sigma Films, Nine Lives Media and in 2010 for Ken Loach and Ringo Starr. BBC, Channel 4, ITV, The Discovery Channel, five and Sky TV have all broadcast my work as a producer/director/co-producer/assistant producer/archive producer.
I am also a freelance BBC producer, archive producer and film researcher so know the vast BBC archives well. Factual entertainment, popular culture and sports footage (football in particular) are some of my specialist subjects.
I am currently working on the exhibits for the reopening of the National Football Museum in Mancheseter. I also worked on Terence Davies film drama Deep Blue Sea. In 2010/11 I worked on a feature film Perfect Sense with director David McKenzie (Hallam Foe) at Sigma films – the film stars Ewan McGregor and Eva Green also a film called Day of the Flowers directed by BAFTA winner John Roberts and a documentary about the work of the world’s best female pop artists of the 60’s featured in a 2010 major Philadelphia exhibition.
Already completed are the film Africa United and Celebrating the Goal for Coke/Plum Pictures bringing to life the stories of World Cup goal celebrations. This was screened worldwide before the 2010 World Cup.
As an experienced archive consultant I am very familiar with archives around the world so know where to find the right images for ANY brief and ANY budget. I am also able to sort out international copyright clearance, dealing with talent and agents.
My expertise is in film, factual entertainment, archive based programmes, news & current affairs, comedy, documentary, history and all sports. Clients include BBC, Nike, Sky, Honda, Coke and Premiership Football clubs.
Some Highlights:
Producer/Director of Wheels on Fire, Vintage Claret and Pride of Preston: Three short films shown on big screens in the North West including to 30,000 fans of two historic British football clubs Burnley and Preston and to a sell out crowd at the Manchester Velodrome.
Of Time and the City – Terence Davies archive feature film, Cannes special screening 2008, nominated for BAFTA and BIFA – Archive Producer http://www.oftimeandthecity.com/news.php
Roots Remembered - Roots 25th anniversiary documentary – Film Researcher BBC
The Premiership’s Greatest Foreign Footballers – Producer/Director Sky 1
Beijing Olympics – assistant producer BBC Interactive
Working for Ringo Starr on his The Other Side of Liverpool music video
Nike Beijing Olympics Courage advert- Archive Consultant
The Gym - P/D/Self-shooter for Discovery
Do Not Adjust Your Set Comedy DVD – Producer
Conspiracy Files (9/11 & Oklahoma Bomb) - Film Researcher BBC
Co-op Good with Money advert – Film researcher www.matteblackfilms.com/assets/video/15_coo-and40.mov
Go to my TV , View and Film research pages for 30+ other BBC and UK TV programmes/films I’ve worked on