LATEST WORK
Fergus Colville, Director, Showrunner and Edit Fixer making Drama and Documentary films for Cinema and TV https://www.ferguscolville.com/
A remarkable show, we are utterly impressed - Commissioning Editor, Nat Geo
Such a simple technique gives a rare and profound insight - Sandford St Martin Award Juror
Wow, very cool and amazing performances - Exec Producer, October Films
DOCUMENTARY
About Me
Director / Showrunner
Credits include – Warner Brothers; Nat Geo; NBC; Disney+; Apple TV; Amazon; Discovery+; ZDF, Curiosity Stream; FilmFour; BBC; ITV; C4; Canal+
I am an experienced director and showrunner with awards and credits in Doc, Drama Doc, Archive, CGI and Drama. As well as working in tv, I have a background as a journalist alongside work as a scriptwriter and director of acclaimed and award-winning short fiction films which have screened at festivals across the world including Cannes, New York and London. For two years I lived in Naples, Italy researching and writing a feature film set in the city. Also, a little unbelievably, I was once a hog wrestling champion in Wyoming, USA.
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I have filmed in EUROPE, US, CANADA, SOUTH AFRICA, COLOMBIA, THE AMAZON, BOLIVIA, ECUADOR, PHILIPPINES, ISRAEL and MOROCCO and travelled in CHINA, TIBET, EGYPT, INDONESIA, AUSTRALIA and KENYA.
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I have set up and run both doc and drama shoots with crew sizes up to fifty. I have created the style and look of series, overseen story producing and compliance as well as acting as the interface between the commissioner and production team. I also fix edits as a consultant. I offer clear story judgement, embellished by a strong visual creativity. My goal is to always be part of a team making the most stylish and amazing stories.
Selected TV Credits
2023/24 - Feature Doc
Director / Showrunner (VP/CGI/Doc/Archive) – Exec Nick Catliff
Atlantic Productions – Channel and show details currently subject to an NDA
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2022/23 - FEDS
Series Director / Series Producer (Doc/Archive) – Execs Gillian Pachter & Octavia Spencer
Warner Brothers Discovery / October Films & ORIT Entertainment – Exec produced by Academy Award Winner Octavia Spencer this six part series has unprecedented access to the FBI and their elite agents giving the inside story, told using doc and original surveillance footage, of some of the agency’s most spectacular takedowns.
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2021/22 - Tycoons
Series Director (Archive / Doc) – Execs Guy Gilbert, Andrew Zikking
Amazon / Curiosity Stream / ZDF / Canal + – A three part mini-series on how far billionaires influence us and our world for 2021 Best Documentary Oscar Winners Off the Fence
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2021 - Alaska Triangle
Director (CGI / Drama / Doc ) – SP Crispin Reece
Wild Dream Films / Ocean Entertainment – CGI enhanced drama for paranormal stories ranging from UFO’s to ghosts to dinosaurs. UK/Canada
2020/2021 - Mafia Tales Declassified
Writer / Director (Drama Doc) – SP Harry Hewland
Raw TV / Disney + / Nat Geo – A Japanese / American Orange County kid gets his dream to become a gangster before a Las Vegas mob hit changes everything and he agrees to help the FBI bring down the boss of New York's most powerful mafia family. UK/South Africa
2020 - These Woods are Haunted
Director (Drama) - SP Crispin Reece
Wild Dream Films / Ocean Entertainment – A couple’s marriage is in danger of being destroyed when she believes an evil spirit has possessed her after inadvertently witnessing a satanic ceremony. UK/Canada
2020 - My Best Friend Married a Warrior
Nominated 2021 RTS award / Best Drama Sandford St Martin Award
Director (Drama) – Script Chino Odimba, Execs Rachel Drummond-Hey & Tamsin Summers
BBC / Drummer TV - Two teenagers plan to leave for Syria and join ISIS. One is caught and stopped with life changing consequences. UK
2020 - See No Evil
Writer / Director (Doc) – SP John Owens, EP Lucie Ridout
Arrow Media – Imran Ashgar’s dream of running his own convenience store is shattered when he’s shot by two teenagers but no-one knows why. UK/Canada
2019 - The Pop Star Smuggler
Nominated 2021 Best Drama Doc Canadian Cinema Awards
Writer / Director (Drama Doc) – Exec Amy Foster
Raw TV / Disney + / Nat Geo – New Yorker, Jimmy Bauer is a pop star in the Caribbean, but when his career begins to slide he takes a radical decision to smuggle heroin for some quick cash. UK/Ecuador
2019 - The Valley of the Damned
Writer / Director (Documentary) – SP Amy Lee-Jones, Exec Mike Warner
October Films – When the head of Colorado prisons is assassinated police struggle to find the killer until a car chase and shoot out in Texas reveals his identity and his motive UK/US
2018 - Silence
Producer / Director (Drama / Ob Doc/ Archive hybrid) – SP John Fothergill; Exec Nick Godwin
Britespark Films – In a small town everyone talks, except when it comes to murder. US/South Africa
2017 - Bad Bromance
Writer / Director (Factual Drama) – Producer Johann Insanally; SP Jeremy Hall; Exec Rebecca North
Raw TV – A US Navy Officer caught smuggling drugs into Sicily finds salvation when he least expects it. US/Colombia
2016 - Kiss of Death
Director – (Drama Doc) – Exec Julian Hobbs & Steve Murphy
Talos Films – Dramatised stories of love gone murderously wrong. UK/US
2015 - Trailblazers
Director (Adventure / Ob Doc ) – Series Producer Nick O’Meally, Exec Chris Muckle
October Films – Following the adventurers whose job it is to ensure the safety of those on a scientific expedition into the remotest heart of the Amazon. UK/Bolivia
2014 - Space Virgins
Writer / Director / Producer (Feature Doc) - Execs Johnny Webb, Sam Anthony
Sundog Pictures – The fight to launch Virgin Galactic along with the world’s first two space tourists Sam and Richard Branson. UK/US
2014 - Vestas
Producer / Director – (Ob Doc) – Prod Exec Iris Maor
Sundog Pictures – A multi camera on-line viral to cover the build-up and execution of a flash mob stunt at sea before the second leg of the Volvo Round the World Yacht Race. South Africa.
2013 - Obsession: Dark Desires
Writer / Director (Factual Drama) – SP Steve Murphy, Exec Denman Rooke
October Films – The dramatized stories of two US women whose lives are destroyed by the obsessive and disturbing behaviour of a stalker. UK / US
2013 - Rise and Fall of Radical TV Drama
Director – (Doc/Archive) – Exec Mike Poole
BBC – A look at the directors and producers engaged in using the power of TV to tackle political issues of their day from Cathy Comes Home to Our Friends in the North. Interviewees include – Ken Loach, Jimmy McGovern, Tony Garnett and Alan Bleasdale. UK
2012 - Hiding Place
Nominated Best Drama, Encounters Festival 2012
Director - (Drama)
Saltaire Films – A Policeman and a teenage rioter find themselves face to face in a dumpster, fugitives of the riot going on outside. UK
2011 - Tattoo School
Series Producer / Director – (Ob Doc) Exec – Malcolm Brinkworth
Touch Productions – A maverick tattoo artist from upstate New York, provokes fury in the profession by opening a school that offers a fast track into the profession. UK/US
2009 - Love, Life, Death in a Day
Co-Director - (Ob Doc) - Exec Sue Bourne
C4 / Wellpark Productions – A Cutting Edge film shot over 24hrs showing the variety of UK city life through the births, deaths and marriages that happen on one particular day. UK
2008 - Design for Life
Director / Producer - (Factual Entertainment / Ob Doc) - Exec Joe Houlihan, SP Sarah Wood
BBC / TwoFour - A stylish six part series filmed on location in Paris following ten would-be designers as they compete for a job at the headquarters of world famous French designer Philippe Starck. UK/FRANCE
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Short Drama Films
Pink Champagne (CINEMA + FESTIVAL CIRCUIT + TV)
ITV / Saltaire Films - A couple return to the hotel where they had their honeymoon to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary. Once the epitome of luxury it is now the worst faded grandeur has to offer.
Lightweight (CINEMA + FESTIVAL CIRCUIT + TV)
ITV / Saltaire Films- A school girl is challenged to break into the house of a neighbourhood recluse. Rumour has it that he's a paedophile.
Sunny Side of the Street (CINEMA + FESTIVAL CIRCUIT + TV + DVD release)
Channel4 / FilmFour / Saltaire Films - A Man Utd supporter has moved with his son to Leeds. Today is the day of the big match between the two cities and everyone else in the street supports Leeds.