JOHNNY BURKE
GNH GLOBAL NATIONAL HAPPINESS:
Interviews and Extended Summary for the GNH Conference, Berlin 2015, run by the ‘Presencing Institute’, MIT. Director/Camera. February 2015.
TASHI AND THE MONK:
Winner of the International Documentary Association (IDA) Best Short and Pare Lorentz award, this HBO documentary is about a wild and troubled orphan child struggling to adapt to her community in the Indian Himalayas. Awards: Grierson Nominated Best Newcomer, Telluride Mountain Film Festival, Vancouver International Film festival, Banff film festival. Co-Director and Editor, 2014.
https://vimeo.com/95735800
(password: compassion)
INSIDE SYRIA:
Channel 4 extended news feature, featuring filmmaker Sean McAllister, going undercover to investigate the situation on the streets of Damascus in 2013. Edit Producer.
JAPAN: A STORY OF LOVE AND HATE:
BBC Storyville, feature doc about a part-time Japanese postman, his nightclub hostess girlfriend, and the emergence of Japan’s ‘new poor’. Director Sean McAllister. TenFoot Films. BBC/NHK. (Avid) Prizes: YIDFF, Yamagata, Japan – Special Prize + Citizen’s Prize. The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival, Volda, Norway – Best International Documentary. Nodo Doc Fest, Trieste, Italy – Special Jury Prize. Ismailia International Festival for Documentary & Short Films, Giza, Egypt – Best Documentary. Producer/co-editor.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/japanastoryofloveandhate/11478536
VEGAS COMES TO CHINA:
3 x 1 hour observational films for National Geographic channel, about the boom taking place in Macau China. Post-production Director/Scriptwriter. Renegade Pictures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NQ1CsiH61M
THE OBSERVER ETHICAL AWARDS:
12 mini-documentary films highlighting the work being done at grass-roots level, to improve aspects of the world we live in, from ethically sourced fashion labels, to sustainable food production. With interviews featuring Colin Firth, Elle McPherson, Ken Livingstone. Director/Editor.
https://vimeo.com/11005986
SEAN AND SAMIR WIN SUNDANCE:
A BBC Culture show 10 minute documentary charting behind the scenes of the documentary team from Liberace of Baghdad at Sundance film festival, where the film won the Special Jury Prize. Director/Producer/Camera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XweTQ769gEY#t=148
The Making of ROAD TO LADAKH and LITTLE TERRORIST:
directing, scripting and editing two half hour ‘making of’ documentaries about these Oscar-nominated dramas by Indian filmmaker Ashvin Kumar. Alipur Films. Producer/Director.
https://vimeo.com/10963745
WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE - The documentary:
This award winning film (Philadelphia Festival of Film and Technology, USA; Wildscreen Festival UK) follows the planning of a most unusual political protest. The World Naked Bike ride is a protest in favour of body freedom (being happy whatever shape, colour or size you are) and challenges our dependency on oil based fuels. The film was screened in festivals and venues around the world, watched by over 1,000,000 people online, and broadcast on GreenTV and the Community Channel UK. Producer/Director.
https://vimeo.com/11043540
THE LIBERACE OF BAGHDAD:
A documentary for award-winning (Sundance, BIFA, Berlin) filmmaker Sean McAllister film which went on to win at Sundance 2005. TenFoot Films. BBC Storyville. Assistant Producer.
http://seanmcallister.com/films/the-liberace-of-baghdad/
HEY GIRL:
A music video for EARDIS, the first broken-beat band to have a Number 1 Hit in the UK singles chart. Tedious Journey films. Producer/Director. MTV.
TOTAL ADVENTURE:
produced, scripted and edited three half hour programmes for this National Geographic series. Series Producer Richard Stansfield. Creative Touch/ Raw Material Films.
SINGING SENSATION:
4 music videos following young up-and-coming Pop singers who won a national singing contest. Director. CC-Lab.
Ohayo Nihon!
a documentary I filmed and edited about life in Northern Japan, for the Yamagata Board of Education.
REFEREES
Alex Cooke/Alan Hayling
Renegade Pictures
alexcook@dircon.co.uk
alan.hayling@renegadepictures.tv
+44 (0)207 4794 200
Andrew Hinton
Pilgrim Films
+44 (0)78462713
Sean McAllister
TenFoot Films
+44 (0)795 8344 137
sean@seanmcallister.com