Film & Avid Editor - Drama & Documentaries
Contact details:John Gillanders
48 Victoria Road
Penarth
CF64 3HY
Tel: 029 20 703820
Mobile: 07908 942629
Email: johngillanders@hotmail.co.uk
Credits include:
PANIC BUTTON
A Moviemogul Production. 95 min feature film.
A horror thriller, a group of four unconnected individuals win a trip to New York on an executive jet. Whilst on the plane, they are made to play for their lives when Big Brother infiltrates each of their internet accounts.
Director: Chris Crow
Producer: John Shackleton
HIDDEN HISTORIES Series 3
BBC 4 x 30 minute documentary on the work of the
Royal Commission for Wales, uncovering the stories behind
lost histories from the beginning of time to the present day.
Transmission January 2011
Director: Richard Edwards
TORCHWOOD
Children of Earth BBC 1. Starring John Barrowman. Episode 3 of a 5 part series following the alien arrival to Earth and the abduction of the planets children.
Won BAFTA Best Drama
Director: Euros Lyn
THE INDIAN DOCTOR
BBC 1. Tx November 2010
Rondo/Avatar co-production.
First 3 episodes of 5 x 45 minute dramas based on the arrival of an Indian doctor in South Wales in the early 1960s, starring Sanjeev Bhaskar.
Winner of the Royal Television Society Best Daytime Production 2010
Director: Tim Whitby
ABRAHAM’S POINT
Feature film starring McKenzie Crook. Nominated for three BAFTA awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Music.
Director: Wyndham Price
DANTE’S DAEMON 80 minute feature film staring Jason Jughes and Jerome Flynn.
Director: Wyndham Price
HISTORY OF COLOUR
6 x 30minute documentaries. International co-production HD. The story of colour and its power on the world in which we live from the past to present day.
Director: Caryl Ebenezer
HIDDEN HISTORIES
Series 2 BBC 4. Five 30 minute documentaries on the work of the Royal Commission for Wales, uncovering the stories behind lost histories from the beginning of time to the present day.
Director: Richard Edwards
LEGENDS
Matt Monro – The Man With the Golden Voice BBC 4.
60 min documentary. Life of Matt Montro who became one of the finest singers of the 20th century.
Director: Louis Heaton
ART OF THE CROSS
International co production HD. 1 x 55 minute documentary.
History of crucifixion in art to the modern day.
Director: Richard Edwards
EXMOOR
Carlton TV. 6 x 30 minute documentaries on people’s lifestyle on Exmoor.
Nominated in the final 3 of the Royal Television Society Awards.
Director: Richard Edwards
STAR SPANGLED DRAGON
BBC Wales. 6 x 30 minute documentaries looking at the Welsh involvement in the shaping of the United States from the Pilgrim Fathers to the present day.
Won BAFTA for Best Editing.
Director: Richard Edwards
AN ARCHBISHOP LIKE
THIS BBC 2. 50 minute documentary following Rowan Williams on the journey to the pinnacle of the English church.
Producer: John Geraint, Green Bay Media
MOUNTAIN
BBC 4. 6 x 30 minute documentary about Cadair Idris mountain.
Producer: Richard Edwards
RED CHAPTERS
S4C/RTE/FR3 Co-Production
6 x 30 minute documentary looking at history of communism in Russia, China and Bolivia
Director: J Mervyn Williams/Amanda Rees
MIND TO KILL
AC1/Sky/Channel 5
8 x 100 minute dramas – detective series with Philip Madoc
Director/Producer: Peter Edwards
UNEXPLAINED LAUGHTER
BBC 1. Drama starring Diana Rigg and Elaine Paige.
Director: Gareth Davies
JUDAS AND THE GIMP
HTV. 4 x 40 minute dramas.
A very wry dramatic look at true life in the Rhondda Valley.
Producer: Karl Francis
THE VANISHING OF RICHEY MANIC
(The Fame Factor) Channel 4
30 minute documentary exploring the darker side of fame through the disappearance of Manic Street Preacher’s guitarist with Boy George, Steve Lamacq and Shaun Ryder.
Director: Stuart Clarke
SUBWAY COPS AND THE MOLE KINGS
(The Blue Light Zone) Channel 4
30 minute documentary about the forgotten underground community living in the New York subways.
Director: Stuart Clarke
LAVOURS OF EVE
(Joan’s story) BBC 2
30 minute documentary, first in the series. Extraordinary experiences of childbirth.
Producer: Deborah Perkin
PIONEERS
(The Good Doctor) BBC 2
30 minute documentary about a GP who conducted mass experiments on preventative medicine in a Welsh mining village.
Producer: Deborah Perkin
SAINTS & SINNERS
RTE, FR3 & S4C Co-production
6 x 50 minute definitive documentary on the history of the Papacy.
Producer: J. Mervyn Williams (Opus)
FASCINATING RHYTHM BBC 2.
Documentary on the centenary of the birth of composer George Gershwin.
Producer: Karen Whiteside
BEACONS
ITV1.
6 x 30 minute documentaries looking at the social history to mountain rescue of the people who live in the Brecon Beacons.
Producer: Richard Edwards
SINGING IN THE RAIN BBC 2
Documentary on an amateur dramatics company.
Producer: Karen Whiteside
LANDS OF DREAMS
BBC Wales.
6 x 30 minute documentaries looking at how the landscape dominates and influences people who live in Pembrokeshire
Director: Richard Edwards
SCREEN GEMS
Channel 4.
2 x 35mm film shorts for first time directors.
10 x 10
BBC 2.
1 x 10 minute programme looking at the discount store Hyper Value.
Producer: Jeremy Howe
VOICES OF CHINA BBC 1.
40 minute documentary on the skills of Professor Chen, teaching talented musicians in the European way of performing in operatic singing.
Producer: Andrew Quick
TADAKI OTAKA
BBC 1.
40 minute documentary on the Japanese conductor Tadaki Otaka and his work with European Orchestras.
Producer: Andrew Quick
ONCE A SOLDIER
BBC 1.
40 minute documentary following three very seriously wounded Falkland’s veterans.
Producer: Jenny Baraclough
Director: Brian Turvey