InColdBlood:AFactualMasterclasswithMarcusPlowright
We are excited to invite Directors UK members to an online skills and career development session with Grierson Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated documentary maker Marcus Plowright as he provides us with a Factual masterclass about his debut feature-length documentary, In Cold Blood.
Marcus will be speaking in-depth with Directors UK’s Vice-Chair and Co-Chair of the Access and Inclusion Committee, Anna Thomson. They will be discussing the making of his film and the challenges he faced throughout the process.
In Cold Blood is a 90-minute feature-length documentary for ITV in the award-winning Exposure current affairs strand that examines the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history.
This documentary tells the story of how thousands of British haemophiliacs were infected and died from HIV and Hepatitis C after being prescribed infected blood products by the NHS.
The session will take place on Thursday 15 October from 5-6pm.
To secure your place, simply book via our event page by Monday 12 October. Attendees will then be sent a link to join the Zoom call.
BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE
The advance registration link will ask for your name and email address, and then take you to a holding page. Please try to log in and join the session 10 minutes prior to the session commencing.
We also ask you to please watch Marcus’ film In Cold Blood prior to the session. Please find a link to the film here.
About Marcus Plowright
Marcus Plowright began directing in 2015. His first film Muslim Drag Queens, a First Cut for Channel 4, was at the forefront of Channel 4’s True Colours alternative voices drive in 2016 and earned him a nomination for Breakthrough BAFTA talent. He went on to series direct American High School / AKA Segregated America, a landmark documentary series for the BBC about life inside a 99% African American High School. His film for Channel 4, The Football Club: Artist in Residence won the Grierson Best Arts and Music documentary award in 2019. He has recently been nominated for a BAFTA Cymru Best Single Documentary for The Murder of Jill Dando, the BBC’s highest rated factual doc of 2019. In 2020 he filmed and directed Football, Prince William and Our Mental Health with the Duke of Cambridge and has just completed In Cold Blood, his first feature film for ITV about the biggest treatment disaster in the NHS history, which the Telegraph described as “a staggering investigation to make your blood boil”.
About Anna Thomson
Anna Thomson has directed and series produced more than 30 films, including Long Lost Family: The Unknown Soldier ITV, Portillo’s Hidden History of Britain C5, A Great British Air Disaster C4, Portrait Artist of the Year Sky Arts, Al Murray’s German Adventure BBC, Patisserie with Michel Roux BBC, World War 2: The Last Heroes C4 and Objects of Desire Sky Arts. She also directed a Sundance backed feature documentary Yoghurt Utopia, short fiction and branded content. Anna is Vice Chair for Directors UK and regularly speaks and hosts their events as well as running directing workshops in schools for the Directors Charitable Foundation. Anna is a graduate of the Skillset’s prestigious Series Producer training scheme. She is now Executive Producing Tea with Bettany Hughes for Google Arts & Culture and a one hour documentary about Greece for the BBC.