Exposed: Groomed for Sex - BBC Religion & Ethics , Unspecified
2011 - Producer/Director
60 mins doc follows presenter Adil Ray's journey to understand sexual exploitation & the British Pakistani community. BBC Three 9pm.

Small Teen Bigger World - Nine Lives Media , United Kingdom
2011 - Series Director
4 x 60 mins obs doc series for BBC Three 9pm following 17 year old 3ft 11in Jasmine Burkitt the year her world changes for ever.

Sam & Evan: From Girls to Men - Nine Lives Media , United Kingdom
2011 - Producer/Director
60 mins obs doc for BBC Three 9pm following a young couple over a year as they transition from female to male.

My School Prom - Nine Lives Media , United Kingdom
2010 - Producer/Director
60 mins coming of age obs doc for BBC Three 9pm following six teenagers as they prepare for their high school prom.

Losing One of My Giant Legs - Nine Lives Media , United Kingdom
2010 - Producer/Director
1 hour obs doc for Channel 5 (TX Autumn 2011 TBC) & TLC (U.S) following Mandy Sellars, her extraordinarily large legs and her fight to walk after an emergency amputation.


My Story - Princess Productions for BBC One , United Kingdom
2010 - Producer/Director
Producing 2x popular factual half hours for BBC One prime time series about people's real life stories for TX summer 2010.
Directing presenting talent including Christine Bleakley and George Alagiah.

Future of Food with George Alagiah - Programme 3 - Blakeway North for BBC Two , United Kingdom
2009 - Producer/Director
60 mins HD documentary for 9pm BBC Two in which George Alagiah travels the world and the UK looking at potential solutions to managing our increasingly insecure food supplies. Included 2 weeks on location in India.

Future of Food - International Version - Blakeway North , United Kingdom
2009 - Edit Producer
Re-versioning three BBC programmes in to two international versions including removing presenter, reducing archive content and re-working narrative for international audience.

Development & Taster tape  - Influential Media , United Kingdom
2009 - Development Producer
Developing ideas, writing pitches and producing taster tape.

Ann Widdecombe versus Girl Gangs - Granada Factuals North , United Kingdom
2008 - Producer/Director
60 mins doc for 9pm ITV1 in which the inimitable Ann Widdecombe gives girl gangs a piece of her mind.

Born Survivors - BBC Current Affairs, London. , United Kingdom
2008 - Producer/Director (Self-shooting)
Vodka, Homework & Me. Produced & Directed part of 60 mins DV obs doc for BBC Three about teenage drinkers. Including filming of divers in the Canaray Islands.

Tonight with Trevor MacDonald - Granada Factuals North , United Kingdom
2008 - Producer/Director
Half hour current affairs for ITV 1.

When Satan Came to Town.  - BBC Current Affairs, Manchester , United Kingdom
2006 - Producer/Director
One-off 60 minute Digi / HD documentary for 9pm BBC One examining the Rochdale satanic abuse scandal of 1990, in which 18 children were taken in to care amidst false allegations of devil worship.
Programme included the first interviews with the children taken who are now adults, never before seen footage of their harrowing interviews by social services and drama reconstruction of events.
Winner of 2006 RTS NW award - Best Network Current Affairs Programme.


Becky's Story. - BBC Current Affairs, Manchester , United Kingdom
2006 - Director
Drama Director for one-off 50 minute drama documentary for BBC One looking at how children in the care system are vulnerable to abuse.

Nominated, 2006 RTS NW award - Best Network Documentary or Series
Winner, 2006 RTS NW award - Best Newcomer on Screen for lead actress Kirsty Leigh - Porter.

Runaways. - BBC Current Affairs, Manchester , United Kingdom
2006 - Producer/Director
Series of 8 30 mins programmes for BBC Three looking at people who have gone missing. Devised & Directed visuals illustrating timelines & evidence of disappearance to create the series look. Produced 2 x 30 mins programmes.

Real Story with Fiona Bruce - BBC Current Affairs, Manchester , Australia
2007 - Producer/Director (Self-shooting)
Nurses on the Run.
BBC One 30 mins programme self shot on DV following two nurses leaving the UK as they escape the NHS and discover a new life in Australia.

Panorama - BBC Current Affairs, Manchester , United Kingdom
2007 - Producer/Director
Who Murdered Bob Woolmer?
BBC One 30 mins fast turn around current affairs.
Director in India and edit Producer for programme looking at the theories of how cricket coach Bob Woolmer died.

The One Show - BBC Current Affairs, Manchester , United Kingdom
2007 - Producer
Overseeing APs making short current affairs films for The One Show.


Real Story with Fiona Bruce - BBC Current Affairs, Manchester , United Kingdom
2006 - Producer/Director
The Company that Stole Christmas.
BBC One fast turnaround 30 mins current affairs programme looking at the scandal of the Christmas savings company Farepak who went bust 6 weeks before Christmas owing their customers over £50million.

Real Story with Fiona Bruce - BBC Current Affairs, Manchester , United Kingdom
2005 - Producer/Director
Dangerous Roads.
BBC One 30 mins current affairs programme investigating how both new road surfaces and badly repaired old ones can be deadly.

Real Story with Fiona Bruce - BBC Current Affairs, Manchester , United Kingdom
2004 - Producer/Director (Self-shooting)
Jonny's Story.
30 mins BBC One update programme on young man battling new variant CJD. Self shot on DV over 2 years as Jonny tries world first drug being pumped in to his brain.

Liquid Assets - Nicole Kidman's Millions. - BBC Current Affairs, Manchester , United Kingdom
2004 - Producer/Director
60 mins BBC Three documentary charting the rise of Nicole Kidman's career and her financial accomplishments. Shot on location with crew in New York, LA, Melbourne, Sydney & London.


Development Producer.  - BBC Current Affairs, Manchester , United Kingdom
2004 - Development Producer
Took ideas from initial ideas through to final written pitches for BBC commissioning process.

Key Projects Include :

- Observational Documentaries including: Small Teen Bigger World,     Sam & Evan,     My School Prom.

- Presenter led journey docs including     Future of Food with George Alagiah for BBC Two 9pm - RTS award winning documentary;       Exposed: Groomed for Sex with Adil Ray for BBC Three;     Ann Widdecombe versus Girl Gangs for ITV 1 9pm.

- When Satan Came to Town for BBC One 9pm - RTS Award Winning investigative documentary with complex Editorial Policy & Legal issues.  

-   Drama Director on award winning Becky's Story drama-doc for BBC One. 

-   Undercover filming for Panorama investigation - A Carer's Story. 


2004 - 2011 Producer - Director - see credits detail.


2000 - 2004 Assistant Producer .
BBC News & Current Affairs, Manchester & London & BBC Entertainment Features.

SHORT FILMS AP/ DIRECTOR:

Real Story - Jonny's Story.   BBC One.
Produced & Directed self shot 20 min film as part of ongoing project about a family dealing with their son who has new variant CJD. Shot over a period of months as he is the first patient to try a newdrug.

Tribe series 2. BBC Two.
Produced & DV Directed 15 min film about young people obsessed with the internet and web cameras for obs doc series. Also Assistant Producer on 15 min film about girls on the UK Garage music scene.

Real Estates - Teenage Pregnancy for Newsnight. <span id="1248436663120S" style="display: none"> </span>BBC Two.
Produced, Directed & self shot 15 min film about the realities of teenage pregnancy as part of long term Real Estates project.

Produced & Directed various 5- 7 minute films for BBC One prime time series including Real Story, 4x4 Reports & Hard Cash:

• Nursing In Crisis - Recruiting nurses from overseas (self shot on DV on location in Johannesburg)
• Army Town - A week in the life of garrison town Colchester the week war started. (DV)
• Victoria Climbie Special: A Day in the life of a Social Worker (PSC & DV);
• Street violence - The Mugger's tale (PSC);
• Milly Dowler Programme - The kids who came back (PSC fast turnaround);
• Plastic Surgery - Botox babes (PSC);
• Dark side of the sun - Ibiza's culture of excess (PSC, DV & undercover).
• Abuse in the Workplace (PSC).
• Identity Theft (PSC)

LONG FORM AP:

Panorama - A Carer's Story. BBC One.
Covert filming reporter over a period of 6 months on programme looking at the failings in the industry that cares for the elderly in their own homes.

Real Estates series 1 & 2, BBC Two.
DV Directed & Assistant Produced 3 X 30 mins & following 4x40 mins observational DV documentary series' looking at how Government policy affects the people of two troubled Salford Estates
Winner of 2001 RTS NW Award.

Trouble Up North, BBC Two.
DV Directed & Assistant Produced on observational documentary series examining the social & racial issues in the riot towns of Oldham, Bradford & Burnley. Predominantly on programme about Crime & Policing in Bradford.

Panorama - Zimbabwe. BBC One.
Directed & self shot DV segments about white Zimbabweans living in the UK, having escaped land grabbing & violence in the troubled country.

Maternity Hospital. BBC One.
Making VT inserts & Assistant Producer & floor producing responsibilities during Live OB on daily magazine programme.




1997 - 1999 Researcher. BBC Entertainment Features, Manchester, BBC Documentaries, BBC Religion, Manchester, & Community Programmes Unit, London. Projects include:

UK REVIEWS, UK ARENA channel.
Producing & Directing 16 mins PSC shot Visual Arts section of programme

Bliss, BBC One.
Researched, Filmed & Directed DV interview inserts in to 3x50 mins documentaries about sex & religion.

Living with the Enemy series 2, BBC Two.
Researched programmes with topics including: Sexism, Class, Drugs, Art, Alternative Medicine as part of documentary series in which people from diametrically opposed viewpoints spend a week living together.

Tribe series 1, BBC Two.
Researched films on Boy Racers, 'Becks', Welsh Hip-Hop fans as part of observational DV documentary series about the groups that young people belong to.

Made in Manchester, BBC Two.
Observational DV documentary series looking at the lives of an array of Mancunians.

The Sunday Show: Pop Pilgrimages, BBC Two.
Set up & on location for 4 films shot in USA & Canada.

The Grafters, BBC Two.
Observational DV documentary series about young people who do unpleasant jobs.



1996 - 1997 Runner / Junior Researcher, Entertainment Features, Manchester.
Working on The Sunday Show, Dad's Army archive show and Two Fat Ladies Comedy Cook-In.

1994 - 1998 - University of Leeds, BBc (Bachelor of Broadcasting) in Broadcasting. First class honours degree.

1992 - 1994 - Fakenham College,Norfolk. 'A' levels: Grades A, B, C. (Performing Arts, Maths, English literature & language)

1987 - 1992 - Fakenham High School, Norfolk. 9 GCSEs: 7 As, 2 Bs.

I have over 13 years of self shooting experience on various cameras, most recently the Canon 305, Sony EX1, EX3, Z1 & Z7 and Panasonic P2 HD 170.  I am confident and happy self shooting and adapt to new technology quickly.

I have experince with self op editing using Avid Media Composer, including assembling material and cutting sequences to music. 

To see my self shooting and self op editing see showreels at www.franbaker.co.uk