Luke Holland

Luke Holland runs the Independent production company ZEF Productions from Ditchling, East Sussex, the setting for his acclaimed five-part BBC Storyville Series A Very English Village. It includes Going for the Kill. Other BBC Storyville documentaries include a portrait of the direct cinema pioneer Albert Maysles - The Poetic Eye, I Was a Slave Labourer - with Arte and WDR; and More Than a Life (Grierson Award, runner-up) the story of his brother Peter's terminal struggle with Myeloma. Other projects include the Channel 4 Series The 'Savage' Strikes Back; Gene Hunters, for C4; the Prix Europa and Emmy entry Good Morning Mr Hitler and the BBC Wildscreen, Golden Panda Award-winner The Journey of Death. Luke spent his childhood in Paraguay, living for a while among the Lengua, Angaite and Sanapana Indians. He ran an arts project in inner-city Birmingham (1971-76); worked as a photographer in South America and in Andean archaeology (1977- 80). His photographic exhibition at the ICA ­ London (1980) was followed by an extensive US tour.

Throughout the 1980s Luke worked with Survival International on indigenous land and cultural rights. He has played a key role in developing the UK screening initiative Docspace, is on the Boards of the UK Jewish Film Festival and the Joods Film Festival, ­ Amsterdam. Luke was President of the Joris Ivens Jury at IDFA 2005 and has given documentary masterclasses at film events worldwide.