Eamonn Matthews
Managing Director
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Eamonn is a nine-time Emmy and four-time BAFTA winner. His most recent award is a 2024 Emmy award for his work on the PBS Frontline two-parter Global spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus. This follows 2023 Emmy, Grierson, duPont-Colombia, Rose d'Or and Overseas Press Club of America awards for his work as executive producer on BAFTA-nominated Afghanistan: No Country for Women (ITV/PBS) , a 2023 Emmy as a senior producer on Putin's War at Home (Hardcash productions/ITV/PBS), a 2023 Peabody award for his work on The Power of Big Oil (Mongoose/PBS/BBC), a 2021 Association of International Broadcasters award for The Anti-Vax Conspiracy, and a Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award for Iraq Uncovered (PBS Frontline/C4). Other awards as an executive producer include a 2016 BAFTA and Emmy for Outbreak: The Truth about Ebola (PBS/Frontline/BBC), a 2016 duPont award for coverage of the ebola outbreak, a 2015 Emmy for The Battle For Ukraine (PBS/Frontline), 2014 Emmy, BAFTA, RTS, Grierson and Broadcast awards for Syria: Across the Lines (C4/PBS/Frontline), a 2013 Emmy and RTS award for Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown (PBS/Frontline/BBC), an Emmy in 2012 for Undercover Syria (PBS/Frontline/C4), another 2012 Emmy for his work as Executive Producer on The Battle for Syria (PBS/Frontline),and a Grierson award in 2011 for Secret Iraq (BBC). In 2010 he won a BAFTA for his work as Executive Producer on the Emmy-nominated documentary Terror in Mumbai.
(Terror in Mumbai is ... A model of the genre, with a combination of clarity and breathless pace reminiscent …of a Paul Greengrass ‘Bourne’ movie" The New York Times).
As Executive Producer of ‘The Death Squads’ (C4/CNN International) he was part of the team that won the 2007 RTS International Current Affairs Award ("...remarkable..." The Daily Telegraph) In 2006 he won a BAFTA for his role as Executive Producer of ‘Beslan' (C4/WNET/NHK)
('Beslan is...incredibly powerful and beautifully constructed…impeccable levels of editorial judgement’ The Observer).
As Series Producer, and then as Executive Producer, he helped found the C4 foreign affairs series Unreported World.
Earlier in his career he was an award-winning BBC film maker.
Ali Watt
Line Producer
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Ali began her media career over 25 years ago at Video Collection International beforejoining BBC Worldwide, where she spent 15 years as a DVD Producer.
During this time, she created behind-the-scenes
content for the BBC’s comedy and drama programming and oversaw DVD releases from master delivery through
to distribution.
Her interest in investigative documentary filmmaking
led her to Oxfordshire in 2014, where she joined Quicksilver Media. Ali initially production-managed
multiple series of the C4 award-winning foreign affairs series Unreported World and now line produces all of Quicksilver’s documentaries.
She has extensive experience managing UK and
overseas shoots and delivering films for UK, US and international broadcasters.
She has overseen films made in many challenging and hostile filming environments - including Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Mali. She received a BAFTA nomination for
her work on Afghanistan: No Country for Women
Fran Peters
Head of Production
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Fran has been working in television for over
35 years and specialises in all forms of television
from film and documentaries to major studio shows
and outside broadcasts.
She started her career at the BBC and worked on
Blue Peter and in Music and Arts as a production
assistant and production manager. She then worked
on a wide range of programmes, with credits that span archaeological documentaries in Egypt to studio programmes that include a BAFTA awarding winning
West Side Story recording, with Leonard Bernstein.
On leaving the BBC she set up an Independent Production company with director Christopher Swann and they
went on to make together many award- winning arts documentaries and live concerts, operas and ballets working with all the major classical orchestras,
musicians and conductors in Europe, including Solti,
John Eliot Gardiner, Mariss Jansons, Paul McCreesh
and Sir Paul McCartney.
She was HOP at Gogglebox Entertainment/Primal Media
for over 10 years working on wide ranging entertainment programmes such as Release the Hounds, BigHeads with Jason Manford, quizzes such as The Code and Breakaway and blockbusters such as Singing in the Rainforest and Carnage with Freddie Flintoff.
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