60' Documentary for PBS and Channel 4

The remarkable story of the hole in the ozone layer - and how we managed to fix it.

As climate change begins to feel like an impossible challenge, this forgotten tale offers a message of hope. The scientists and politicians at the heart of the story reveal how they spotted the planetary problem and against all odds, persuaded Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher – two of the most unlikely eco-warriors in history – to take action.

Winner AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Silver Award 2018

Winner of Best International Documentary, AFO Science Film Festival 2018

Winner of Best Science Film at Green Screen 2019

Winner of a Gold World Medal at the New York Festivals Television & Film Awards 2019

Nominated for The Rockie Awards 2019

Selected for InScience International Science Film Festival 2018

Selected for Silbersalz Science Film Festival 2018

Lady Thatcher, eco-warrior, seems an unlikely superhero… But Mrs T treated climate change seriously. Packed with lively cartoon graphics, the documentary Saving Planet Earth: Fixing A Hole (C4) showed us why: Thatcher was a scientist before she was a politician, and was proud of it. Christopher Stevens MailOnline 

Inspirational, dynamic film… Brilliant storytelling, presenting a complex issue in a broad historical, scientific and political context. AFO Film Festival jury

Gripping throughout. It is rare to see a chemistry story presented in such a human way. AAAS award judge Victoria Gill of the BBC

Written and directed by Jamie Lochhead

Narrator - David Tennant (C4) / Mike McShane (PBS)

Design & Animation - Why Not Associates

Composer - Max de Wardener

Archive Producer - Cristina Miro

DOP - George Woodcock, E.J. Enriquez, Mike EppleSound recordist - Ewan Dryburgh, Adriano Bravo, Richard Harris

Edit Assistant - Philip Michael

Production Manager - Darapon Vongsa-Nga

Gripping Films Concept & PD - Tom Mustill

Editor - Justin Badger

Producer - Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe

Executive Producer - David Dugan

60' Documentary - Windfall Films for PBS/NOVA and BBC4

The story of Einstein's masterpiece - general relativity. The film is a visual journey that begins in Einstein's young mind, follows the dream-like thought experiments that gave him stunning insights about the physical world, and ultimately reaches the extremes of modern physics.  

Writer, Producer & Director: JAMIE LOCHHEAD
Editor: JUSTIN BADGER
DOP: JULIAN SCHWANITZ
Assistant Producer: LAURA VOAK
Graphics: HELLO CHARLIE
Music: MAX DE WARDENER
Production Manager: KAREN LEE
Executive Producer: DAVID DUGAN

Nominated 2016 Emmy Award for Outstanding Science and Technology Programming

Nominated 2016 Emmy Award for Outstanding Graphic Design & Art Direction

Winner 2016 Jackson Hole Science Media Award Best Physical Science Film

Nominated 2016 Grierson Award for Best Science Documentary

Official Selection, AFO International Festival of Science Documentary Films 2016

A pick of the day in The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, The Telegraph, The FT, The Radio Times, The Sunday Times and The Week.

This terrific film illuminates not only Einstein's conclusions but also the means by which he arrived at them, adroitly negotiating that always difficult balance between bewildering and patronising the passing viewer to furnish and engrossing narrative. 

Andrew Mueller, The Guardian

An engrossing intro to the thought processes behind one of history's most stunning ideas.

Gary Rose, Radio Times

Visual thought experiments that even I could get my tiny brain around...

Sally Newall, Independent

Three minute animation narrated by David Tennant marking the 100th anniversary of general relativity. 

Commissioned by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. 

JAMIE LOCHHEAD - Writer / Producer
EOIN DUFFY - Design / Animation
DAVID TENNANT - Narrator
ANAIS RASSAT - Science Content & Outreach
WESLEY SLOVER - Sound Design.

Thanks to Prof. Ofer Lahav

900,000 views on youtube and vimeo.

Featured online by The Guardian, The Independent, The Radio Times, The Huffington Post, BBC America, Buzzfeed, Gizmodo, Mashable, Reddit, Slate, The Verge and many more.

- Webby Awards Honoree Best Science & Education Video 2016
- Official Selection Ottawa International Animation Festival 2016
- Official Selection UNESCO International Year of Light Film Festival 2016
- Official Selection The Science Film Festival 2016
- Selected for Ted Ed website and Vimeo Staff Picks

Sir David Attenborough recounts how Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher – two of the unlikeliest eco-warriors in history – saved the planet. A short film to raise awareness of the current Montreal Protocol climate talks in Kigali, Rwanda. 

www.thehole.org

Written, produced and directed by Jamie Lochhead and Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe

Narrator - Sir David Attenborough
Editor - Justin Badger
Design & Animation - Why Not Associates
Composer - Max de Wardener
Archive Producer - Cristina Miro
DOP - George Woodcock, E.J. Enriquez, Mike Epple
Sound recordist - Ewan Dryburgh, Adriano Bravo, Richard Harris
Edit Assistant - Philip Michael
Production Manager - Mel Moore
Concept Producer - Tom Mustill
Executive Producer - David Dugan
A Windfall Films and Gripping Films production supported by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation

Two live programmes and extensive live streaming website. Windfall Films for Channel 4. 

A series of live Easter programmes presented by Mark Evans and leading experts, reveals the wonderful – and downright weird – world of eggs. From crocodiles to cockroaches, fish to frogs, turtles to termites, sharks to snakes and penguins to preying mantis, the programmes reveal the beginnings of life like never before.

Series Producer - JAMIE LOCHHEAD

Windfall team - CHARLOTTE HUNT-GRUBBE, DAVID DUGAN, PETER FISON, ALEX TATE, ROBB LEECH, CLARE STRONGE, LAURA VOAK, DAVID COLEMAN.

Nominated Wildscreen Panda Award for Innovation 2014

Shortlisted 2013 Grierson Award, Best Science Documentary

Nomintaed Best Multiplatform Project, Broadcast Digital Awards 2014

Nominated BANFF Rockie Awards for Cross Platform 2014

Website: http://eggs.channel4.com/

Series 1,  Four 60' programmes. Windfall Films for Channel 4 and National Geographic. 

Mark Evans, Joy Reidenberg, Simon Watt and Richard Dawkins uncover thee evolutionary secrets of the largest animals on the planet. 

Producer/director, Crocodile & Giraffe episodes - JAMIE LOCHHEAD

Director Elephant episode - JULIAN THOMAS, Producer Whale episode - ALEX TATE, Exec - DAVID DUGAN

AWARDS
Winner BAFTA Best Specialist Factual
Winner RTS Award Best Science & Natural History
Winner Broadcast Award Best Popular Factual

This is not a freak show but one of the most remarkable natural history shows I've seen... a rare thing - a hardcore biological science documentary that will both entertain and enlighten almost anyone who watches.

Charlie Brooker, The Guardian

4 part biology series. Windfall Films for Channel 4 and PBS. 

Anatomist Joy Reidenberg and vet Mark Evans explore the reproductive behaviours and biology of the animal kingdom. Focussing on four species – elephant, dolphin, kangaroo and orangutan – Sex In The Wild (Channel 4 title Born in the Wild)  takes an in-depth look at how these animals find, fight for and woo the opposite sex. And explores how they mate, give birth and raise their young in extreme environments.

Exec Producer/Series Producer - JAMIE LOCHHEAD

Directors - PETER FISON, ROELAND DOUST, CHARLOTTE HUNT-GRUBBE, KELLY NEAVES. Exec Producer - DAVID DUGAN

3 part series. Windfall Films for BBC2.

Overnight ratings for episodes 1 and 3 were over 3.2 million. 

No other land mammal displays such dazzling diversity as man’s best friend. This series takes a snapshot of the dog population of a typical English village and examines the huge range of breeds in one single place. Presenters Kate Humble and Steve Leonard, together with leading experts, put the village dogs through a range of tests and explore why there’s so much variety within a single species. And historian Ruth Goodman unearths the extraordinary stories behind some of the world’s most iconic breeds.

Series Producer / Director - JAMIE LOCHHEAD

Producer/Directors - ANNE SOMMERFIELD, CHARLOTTE HUNT-GRUBBE, PETER FISON, CLARE STRONGE, GLEN SWIFT
Execs - LEESA RUMLEY, DAVID DUGAN

BBC webpage and clips: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bkdmf

..very interesting it is, too, if you’re a dog lover. But even if you’re not, you will be slack-jawed in amazement.
Jane Rackham, Radio times

I can't get enough of those dogs
John Crace, The Guardian

3 part series for Channel 4 and PBS.

Veterinarian Mark Evans uses technology to tackle three deadly predators: the great white shark, Nile crocodile and polar bear. When these animals attack humans, both sides lose. As more people are killed or maimed, more animals are killed in retaliation. Mark wants to find ways to break this circle of violence and protect both humans and animals. For Windfall Films.

Exec Producer / Series Producer - JAMIE LOCHHEAD

Directors - GWYN WILLIAMS, STEVE COLE, Exec Producer - DAVID DUGAN

4 live programmes and extensive website. Windfall Films for Channel 4. 

 A nationwide campaign, on TV and online, to investigate Britain’s most controversial carnivore. Foxes Live: Wild in the City saw user generated content contributing to the UK’s largest ever urban fox census and proved that there was an appetite for bringing the Natural History genre to a new generation of TV audiences. Site traffic during the live shows was equivalent to that of a Big Brother eviction, peaking at 1000+ page requests per second as the country went mad for Chico the fox.

Series Producer - JAMIE LOCHHEAD

Website - NUMIKO

Dawn Scott and Phil Baker, the show's experts, published the project data in the journal PLoS One:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24919063

Nominated for 2013 BAFTA Craft Award for Digital Creativity

Winner of Broadcast Digital Award 2013 Best App or Website for a Programme

Winner 2013 REV Award for Best Website

Winner 2012 BIMA Award for Data Visualisation

What a clever show Foxes Live was - made for pennies, and making some verminous items with mange living under a shed in Brockley seem far more exciting and fascinating than the BBC’s use of the Masai Mara, Minnesota and the whales of California combined. 

Caitlin Moran, The Times

60' documentary for Science & Discovery. Windfall Films.

In July 2011, Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted-off from the Kennedy Space Center, the last flight of the Space Shuttle Program - the end of an era. Filmed over 14 months, this deep access documentary follows the engineers, launch crews and astronauts as they prepare for the final mission. Our cameras were the only documentary cameras to be allowed into the control rooms for the final launch. The film was broadcast just 4 hours after the launch. The final scenes of the launch were filmed, edited and transferred to Discovery Channel HQ directly from location at Kennedy Space Center. 

Producer/Director - JAMIE LOCHHEAD

Exec - Carlo Massarella 

3 part series. Windfall Films for Channel 4.

Inside Nature's Giants dissects the largest animals on the planet to uncover their evolutionary secrets.

Producer/Director Python episode - JAMIE LOCHHEAD
Editor - JUSTIN BADGER, AP - PETER FISON, Exec - DAVID DUGAN

AWARDS
Winner Thomson Reuters Award for Communicating Zoology
Nominated Learning on Screen Awards 2011

An excellent TV show, featuring a huge quantity of information. There was never, ever the implication or suggestion that snakes are nasty, unpleasant or icky creatures. Instead, they were rightly portrayed as fascinating, important and enormously successful.
Darren Naish, Tetrapod Zoology
 

Series 1 and 2. Windfall Films for Discovery.

Engineering adventures in moving the impossible.

Producer/Director for episodes in the first and second series of this cult engineering show. The series is now in it's 7th season! 

Exec - CARLO MASSARELLA

Educational online game.
Neon Otter for the University of Cambridge Nanoscience Centre.

Written and produced by Jamie Lochhead and Tom Mustill.

Play the game here: 
http://www.nanoworks.cam.ac.uk/videos/nanogame/

The Umbrella Assassin
1 x 60’ directed by Mark Radice
Windfall Films for Thirteen/WNET and FIVE
Uncovering the truth about the assassination of Georgi Markov.

Nominated for 2007 EMMY Award for Outstanding Historical Programming.

The Heist
3 x 60’ directed by David Glover and Rudolph Herzog
Windfall Films for Channel 4
A team of retired criminals are challenged to pull off three high profile heists.

The Great Escape: Revealed
1 x 60’ directed by Mark Radice
Windfall Films for PBS and Five
Archaeologists and WWII veterans travel to Poland to unearth the famous tunnels.

Nominated for 2004 Grierson Award for Best Historical documentary.

DNA
5 x 50’ Executive producer David Dugan
Windfall Films for PBS and Channel 4
An oral history of the amazing molecule.

Winner of 2005 EMMY Award for Outstanding Science Documentary.

Isaac Newton: The Dark Heretic
1 x 60’ Directed by Chris Oxley
Blakeway productions for BBC 2
Uncovering the religious beliefs and alchemical works of Isaac Newton.