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Dominick French
CREDITS
Self Shooting PD SAVING LIVES IN CARDIFF BBC2 / Label 1 TV
Observational documentary series behind the scenes of Wales’s largest hospital as it struggles with record NHS waiting lists, following the surgeons on the front line as they juggle emergency operations with the patients on their lists requiring lifesaving surgery.
Lead PD SARAH BEENY'S NEW LIFE IN THE COUNTRY’ Channel 4 / Outline Productions
Sarah and her family have moved to Somerset to make a fresh start in the countryside – as they complete the build of their country mansion, they turn their attention to the land and outbuildings to diversify their 200 acre farm.
Series Director HIGHLAND COPS BBC2 / Firecrest Films
An observational documentary following the Highlands and Islands Police division, who cover Europe’s least policed area. With officers often working alone and with back up a plane or ferry ride away, even getting to a crime can be a huge challenge in this stunningly remote landscape.
Self Shooting PD HOSPITAL BBC2 / Label 1 TV
Award winning observational documentary series taking a 360 look at the NHS in unprecedented times, telling the stories of the clinicians on the frontline of the Covid pandemic in Coventry as the fight begins to restore the hospital's full patient services.
Self Shooting PD CORNWALL - THIS FISHING LIFE BBC2 / Frank Films
Observational documentary following a fishing community through turbulent times both on land and at sea.
Series Director WAR ON PLASTIC - WITH HUGH AND ANITA BBC1 / Keo Films
Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall and Anita Rhani explore just how much impact our reliance on plastic is
having on the Planet. *RTS WINNER*
Self Shooting PD SAVING LIVES AT SEA BBC2 / Blast Films
Series telling the powerful stories of Britain's lifeboat crew who drop everything to head to sea to save lives.
Series Director WHO SHOULD GET TO STAY IN THE UK? BBC2 / TwoFour
Series exploring just what it takes to successfully navigate Britain's overstretched immigration system
Producer Director CHRIS PACKHAM - IN SEARCH OF THE LOST GIRL BBC2 / Tigress Productions
A real life detective drama in which Chris Packham endeavours to find a woman from an indigenous hunter gather tribe
in Sumatra whose photo he took in the rainforest 20 years ago. *RTS NOMINATED*
Self Shooting PD WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE TOYS Channel 4 / Boomerang
Single documentary exploring the curious world the super rich toy market where toys are produced for mega rich clients regardless of cost.
LEAD PD ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE Channel 4 / Dragonfly
Award winning rig series following parents through the ups and downs of life, and having a baby, on the wards of the Liverpool Women's Hospital.
Shooting PD THE COUNTERFEITERS Channel 4 / Wild Pictures
Observational documentary on white collar crime, following a police unit investigating those who profiteer online from selling Chinese counterfeit goods from their living rooms.
Shooting PD 100% BRITISH FIVE / The Garden
Observational documentary series on Britain's most ethnically diverse street in Cheetham Hill where over 30 languages are spoken.
Shooting PD THE COMPLAINERS Channel 4 / Dragonfly
Documentary series following some of Britain’s most vociferous complainers who refuse to take no for an answer.
Shooting PD THE CRANE GANG BBC2 / Flame TV
Observational documentary series following the men behind the levers of the UK’s biggest mobile crane firm as they perform the gargantuan lifts that help shape Britain.
Shooting PD THE SEX CLINIC Channel 4 / Friel Kean Films
Observational documentary series on the frontline of the battle with STD’s, following the stories of patients passing through three of the UK’s busiest sexual health clinics.
Shooting PD JUNIOR DOCTORS - YOUR LIVES IN THEIR HANDS BBC3 / BBC
Documentary series following fledgling doctors taking the step from med school onto the wards at The Royal in Liverpool, a hospital in the heart of one of Britain’s most deprived inner cities.
Shooting PD BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Channel 4 / Betty TV
Gary is a London 21 year old beauty obsessive who wants a new face through cosmetic surgery. Texan Reggie has a severe facial disfigurement caused by neurofibromatosis - both men experience each other’s very different worlds.
Shooting PD VILLAGE SOS BBC1 / BBC Wales
Six villages in need of regeneration receive £400,000 in lottery funding to try and establish a sustainable business that will turn their fortunes around.
Series Producer Director KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY BBC2 / Two Four
Four family businesses are test driven by the next generation so they can decide whether or not to take them on.
Shooting PD THE BEARMAN FIVE & NAT GEO / AQUA VITA FILMS
The story of maverick bear expert Ben Kilham in America, who believes his autism gives him a unique insight into bear behaviour
Shooting PD THE GIRL WHO NEVER ATE Sky One / V Good Films
Seven year old Tia has never eaten in her life as a result of a congenital defect that means she can only be fed by tube.
*Sky’s most highly rating documentary of all time*
Series Director RAIL COPS BBC1 / Films of Record
Observational documentary series following the work of the British Transport Police, as they endeavour to keep Britain’s rail network free of crime and running on time.
Director THE FUGEE STARS BBC2 / BBC's Picture This Strand
A football team made up of stowaways ended up in Teesside docks having fled West Africa, merging their harrowing stories of persecution that brought them to the UK and their endeavours in the local Sunday league.
Trainee Director - Channel 4’s Young Director’s Bursary Scheme This award allowed me to shadow one of Britain’s most distinguished documentary directors Mike Grigsby for an eighteen-month period at all stages of the documentary film-making process.
Director A VILLAGE AFFAIR Channel 4 / Short Stories Strand
Following the residents of Tinker’s Bubble, an alternative community of road protesters and eco-warriors fighting for acceptance with their neighbouring village.
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