Sally Weale

Producer/Director

2004

Producer - Fat Nation Interactive: 20 minute films for interactive television to accompany the BBC 1 series.

Producer - D Day Extra, series of films for interactive television featuring a daily countdown to D Day and interviews with veterans

Documentary Co-Director - D Day.
Interviews with veterans for 2 hour drama for BBC 1
(co-production with Dangerous Films).

Producer - Destination D Day:the Raw Recruits.
BBC 1 series putting 18-25 year olds
through the training carried out for D Day.

2003

iTV Producer: D-Day Extra. Working alongside Dangerous Films interviewing veterans featuring in D Day drama

2002

Director - Pet Rescue (Endemol)

Producer/Director - Pilot film about the captive breeding
programme at St Louis Zoo for Animal Planet USA (Brook Lapping)

Development Producer at September Films

Development Producer Cineflix, Montreal


2001

Development Producer, Factual Department, Carlton
developing and writing programme ideas for Channel 4

Development at Working Title working on the follow up to Billy Elliot with Lee Hall

Development Producer Brook Lapping


2000

Producer - Hypotheticals, 1 hour programme on medical
ethics for BBC 2 with Clive Anderson (Brook Lapping)

Development Producer, Factual Department, Carlton
developing and writing programme ideas for ITV/Channel 4

1999

Producer/Director - Croc Bank, 30 minute film about India's biggest crocodile sanctuary for BBC1's Animal People
(Icon Films)

Co-Director - Crocodile Trail and The Big Squeeze:
Alligators and crocodiles in Florida and anacondas in Venezuela. 50 minute films for the Discovery Channel presented by Jules Sylvester. (Partridge Films).

Producer - Children's Hospital (BBC 1) - popular observational documentary series about Birmingham Children's Hospital

Producer Bikini Sharks - adapting 2 hour Discovery film about the sharks living in the Bikini Atoll and The Original Terminator - adapting 50 minute film about the Monitor shipwreck for C4

1998

Producer/Director - Children's Hospital (BBC 1)

1997

Assistant Producer - The Human Body (BBC 1) presented by
Professor Robert Winston

Associate Producer - Survivor (HTV) shot in Costa Rica:
50 minute film about the science of survival in the jungle
Discovery/Channel 5

1996

Producer/Director - First Sight - 30 minute programme about mothers trying to trace adopted children

Location producer - Fin whales of the Mediterranean (Cicada)

Location producer - two specials about the 50th anniversary of the Bikini Atomic tests for Channel 4 news (Cicada)

Co-director BBC - First Sight - half hour programme about the BSE crisis.

Director - various short films for Perspective Plus, science magazine series produced by the COI for overseas television

Researcher BBC First Sight - 30 minute programme about corrupt landlords

1995

Director - Blood Rites, 30 minute film about menstrual taboos for First Sex (Piranha/Channel 4)

Director - various short films for Perspective Plus (COI)

1994

Director - short film about bras and researcher for 30 minute film about women and madness for First Sex (Piranha/Channel 4)

Assistant producer at Paradox Pictures: documentary about the relationship between apes and humans

Writer/researcher - The Long Game - film about
malaria for Perspective, series of 30 minute science films produced by the COI for overseas TV. Shot in Kenya.

1993

Director various shorts for Perspective Plus and UK Today.Writer/researcher for 30 minute film about sports science for Perspective. (COI).

1992

Researcher for Equinox film about AIDS (InCa/Channel 4)

Research for book accompanying Pink Floyd box set (Storm Thorgerson)

Writer/researcher for 30 minute film about environmental
Architecture for Perspective (COI)

1991

Researcher for Invisible Armies, 4 part science series about
the history of epidemics (Goldwyn Associates/Channel 4)

Associate Producer at Partridge Films - four short films
about animal behaviour.

1987-1990

Freelance director and/or researcher at COI working on
Perspective and UK Today

1985-1986

Writer/researcher at Medi-Cine making educational
videos for GPs

POSTGRADUATE QUALIFICATIONS
1981-1984 PhD Zoology (Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London)

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
1977-1980 Natural Sciences Tripos, New Hall, Cambridge
BA Zoology II.1
College Awards 1979 Posener Scholarship; 1980 Posener Prize

OTHER SKILLS
Fluent French
Good Spanish
DV proficient

INTERESTS
Cinema (4 year diploma course at the BFI. Practical courses at St Martin's School of Art and London Film-makers' Coop. Photography. Travel (USA, Cuba, Iceland, Central and South America, Europe). Wildlife Conservation. Tennis. Music, Contemporary Dance.

REFEREES
John Kent, Senior Producer, Learning and Interactive
Richard Dale, Executive Producer, Dangerous Films
Cesca Eaton, Executive Producer, BBC Birmingham

 

CONTACT:

Sally Weale
14, Katherine House,
125 Wornington Road,
London W10 5YA

tel/fax 020 8968 6284
mobile 079890 43222
sally.weale@virgin.net

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