Credits
Inside Incredible Athletes (working title) - Renegade Pictures
, United Kingdom
2010 - Producer/Director
An epic 90 minute film for C4 Specialist Factual to launch the channel's Paralympic campaign.
The programme fuses profiles of five sports and athletes, a scientific exploration of the skills involved, with extraordinary performance films which take the athletes away from the track and field to perform their sports in extraordinary locations.
Set to TX primetime on August 29th, 2010, the film looks set to be very special.
ALPELLA TV commercial - Dinamo Istanbul for Universal McCann
, Turkey
2010 - Director
Stunt based, eye catching POV TV commercial for Alpella (Middle East and Asian mega brand, equivalent of Cadburys). Shot on RED Camera and HD POV camera.
YESTERDAY WE WERE IN AMERICA - Carbon
, United Kingdom
2009 - Director
Writer and director of this complex period drama-documentary telling the amazing story of Brits Alcock and Brown - who, in 1919, became the first men to fly non-stop across the Atlantic ocean, some 8 years before Charles Lindbergh. Shot in HD on location in UK and Newfoundland. Produced by Carbon for feature film company Aquarius Films.
WAYNE ROONEY'S STREET STRIKER (3x60) - Plum
, United Kingdom
2008 - Series Director
The format defining first series of the hit TV show for Sky One. One of Britain's finest footballers takes - quite literally - to the streets, to find a champion of street football. Urban and gritty, the style of this series was a refreshing antithesis to the usual run of celebrity talent shows. Multi camera, HD, and relatively fast turn around (16 weeks for 3 one-hour programmes).
I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M TELLING YOU THIS (1x60) - Carbon / Aquarius Films
, United Kingdom
2008 - Director
A tender and personal film chronicling the lives of a group of men living with prostate cancer and exploring the phenomenon the internet has provided for this unique and confusing illness that affects two thirds of men by the age of 80.
THE SECRETS OF THE 12 DISCIPLES (1x120') - Carbon Media Limited
, United Kingdom
2010 - Studio Director
Conceived and executed ambitious and highly stylised studio recreation of The Last Supper on a grand scale, to shoot back bone of this major Xmas C4 feature. Shot in HD.
LITTLE BRITAIN DOWN UNDER (1x60') - Little Britain Productions / BBC
, Australia
2007 - Producer/Director
Originally commissioned as a 'video diary' for BBC3, this film became an epic hybrid of performance, documentary and occasional mocumentary and earned a place on BBC1 primetime. Starring Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Kath & Kim, Harold Bishop and the cast of neighbours.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE: INVASION OF ISLINGTON - BBC News and Current Affairs
, United Kingdom
2007 - Location Director
Prepped and directed multi-camera stunt for BBC2 series featuring the population of a small village who took over Islington Green for a day (along with 32 morris dancers, 20 sheep and 2 cows).
THE BIG ART PROJECT - Carbon Media Limited
, United Kingdom
2008 - Location Director
Filmed phase 1 (of 4 phases) of the award-winning gargantuan C4 arts commission. Five years in the making, the TV series resulted several major new public art works, including an award winning 80 foot sculpture in St Helens.
PARKOUR RENDEVOUS (TVC) - Carbon / Ruckus / Publicis
, Canada
2006 - Director
Very successful TVC for North American cell phone giant Rogers.
GAY VICARS - Carbon Media Limited
, United Kingdom
2006 - Producer/Director
C4 primetime documentary chronicling two very different ministers as they attempt to become some of the first people in the country to marry their same-sex partners.
HEROES - A FILM FOR LIVE 8 (1x3') - Carbon Media Limited
, United Kingdom
2005 - Director
This film - written with Richard Curtis - told the history of protest, and was made for the Live 8 event and global broadcast.
JUMP BRITAIN - Carbon Media Limited
, United Kingdom
2005 - Director
Wrote and directed the C4 sequel to my 2003 film Jump London. An even bigger ratings and export hit than the first film.
THE REAL LITTLE BRITAIN - Carbon Media Limited
, United Kingdom
2004 - Director
Consciously avoiding the 'I heart' style of 'Real' tribute programmes, this programme took a quirky Modern Times approach to exploring the lives of 9 real life Britons whose existence eerily echoed the characters from the BAFTA award winning comedy series. Commissioned for BBC3, repeat high ratings earned the film a primetime BBC2 re-run.
BODY TALK (2x60') - ITN Factual
, United Kingdom
2004 - Producer/Director
Two-part series for prime time Channel 4 exploring body language with Professor Peter Collett in an entirely new way. Prog 1 - Power - looked at politicians (and had consequences!) and prog 2 - Sex - the body language of lust and love. Co-produced and directed with Mike Smith.
JUMP LONDON - Optomen
, United Kingdom
2003 - Director
Writer and director of this massive C4 hit: record breaking UK shares and sold to 65 countries. The unknown sport of Parkour (or Free Running) was transplanted to the rooftops of London for an unforgettable journey.
"...Mike Christie's film brilliantly captured free running and bathed London in a bright new light.... the middle section of Jump London was a mesmerising bit of television. You could use adjectives like balletic, acrobatic or gymnastic to describe it, but none would quite do it justice." THE GUARDIAN
Finalist, RTS awards, Best Arts Programme
PRAMS, PARENTING AND PARTIES - September Films
, United Kingdom
2003 - Producer/Director
A launch documentary for BBC3, this doc - set in Primrose Hill - looked at celebrity mothers. Scooped an insight into the Sadie Frost and Jude Law marriage difficulties along the way.
FOOTBALL STORIES - Wark Clements
, United Kingdom
2002 - Producer/Director
Fifty Years of Soccer Wives - commissioned by Julian Bellamy for C4 - looked at the long love affair between the British public and the wives of it's footballing heroes.
LIVES LESS ORDINARY (2x30') - Wark Clements
, United Kingdom
2002 - Director
Writer and lead director on this 8 episode series for BBC2 fronted by Kirsty Wark. Programme 1 of this series, shot in Nova Scotia and very fast turn around remains one of my personal favourites of my back catalogue.
FROM HERE TO MODERNITY (3x30') - Wark Clements
, United Kingdom
2001 - Series Director
A wonderful, primetime BBC2 series - fronted by Kirsty Wark - chronicling the history of British Modernist Architecture.
THE AD FACTOR (1x30') - Wark Clements
, United Kingdom
2001 - Producer/Director
PD programme 2 of a series of 3 for primetime BBC2 looking at the advertising industry. This programme looked in depth at the 'creative process' and the creation of an ad campaign.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 RAVES (3x60) - Rapido
, United Kingdom
2001 - Producer
Produced and edited the first 3 of the 5 programmes of this hit C4 series.
THE ENTERTAINERS (1x30) - Rapido
, United Kingdom
2000 - Producer/Director
Channel 4 pilot set in Blackpool.
BRITISH TRIBES (1x60') - LWT Factual
, United Kingdom
2000 - Producer/Director
P/D on prog 2 of the first series of this primetime Sky One series taking a light hearted look at the tribes of Britain.
CREAM (3x60') - Pacific
, United Kingdom
1999 - Producer
Produced 3 of 6 of this documentary series for Sky One about the super club Cream in Liverpool.
CRIME SQUAD (2x60') - BBC News and Current Affairs
, United Kingdom
1999 - Producer
Producer on this primetime BBC1 crime programme.
TALES FROM THE NET (5x2') - BBC Science
, United Kingdom
1999 - Producer/Director
Five short films for primetime BBC1 telling five very human stories of uses of the new fangled thing called the internet.
DROP THE DEBT (TVC) - Jubilee 2000 / Intial
, United Kingdom
1999 - Director
TVC for The Brits 1999 and MTV starring Jarvis Cocker and David Bowie (amongst others) to launch the Drop The Debt campaign, with Bono and Mohammed Ali. The slogan - which I coined - and campaign became hugely successful, and the resulting massive debt cancellation programme is directly credited with educating 28 million Africans, amongst many other incomprehensible changes. It also spawned the lobbying organisation ONE and LIVE 8.
UNDERGROUND (1x40') - Interference
, United Kingdom
1998 - Producer/Director (Self-shooting)
Pilot of programming for Film Four about Underground film making.
SEARCH FOR THE SEA SERPENT (1x60') - Cicada Films
, Norway
1998 - Producer
Location producer for this major Discovery/BBC co-production. 4 weeks filming on and in the deep waters of Norway. Shot in Norway on Super-16.
PINK PLANET (1x30') - Just Television
, Russian Federation
1998 - Producer
Location producer for this complex C4 production shot in Russia.