David Notman-Watt
Director David Notman-Watt and his production company back2back productions. had a busy year in 2008, making two films in Madagascar for Al Jazeera's People and Power strand as well as Aled's Christmas Carols for ITV1 as well as the critically acclaimed Alex James in Colombia for BBC's Panorama strand. David also found time to make Chris Ryans' Elite Police for October Films/Discovery and The Duke for ITV1. Recent music documentary credits include The World's Oldest Boy Band for BBC Wales following the members of the Froncysyllte Male Voice choir, Paul Potts: By Royal Command for ITV1, and in 2006 David won a Grierson Award for his documentary Take That: For the Record broadcast on ITV1 to a peak audience of 6.2 million. The previous year he was nominated for a BAFTA, RTS and One World Trust Award for producing LEO AND ZE for October Films/Ch4, a harrowing documentary made in the heart of the drug trafficking gangs of Rio de Janeiro as part of C4's COCAINE . series. David returns to the cocaine story in 2009 for Al Jazeera's Witness strand, following the drug's trail through West Africa. A second film will look at the plight of economic refugees in the Comoros Islands who take to the sea with people traffickers in the hope of building better lives abroad. Most never make it.
David will be screening the UK premiere of the as yet unseen 60 minute director's cut of Alex James: The Cocaine Diaries.
