The Ghost Of Richard Harris
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY (2022)A candid and revealing insight into the private life and public career of Richard Harris. One of the most remarkable actors of his generation, this feature documentary explores Harris’s complex and, at times, contradictory character. Each of his three sons - Jared, Jamie and Damian - brings their own perspective to bear as they summon the ghost of their late father to the screen.
"This beautifully crafted and remarkable film was a tribute to a one-off, presenting Harris in his glories and his faults."
***** The Times
"it was a pleasure to be reminded of Harris’s great performances...experiencing at first-hand that charisma, that lion-in-winter defiance"
**** The Guardian
Nominated: George Morrison Feature Documentary Award, Irish Film & Television Academy Awards (IFTA).
Nominated: Best Arts Programme, The Royal Television Society Programme Awards (RTS)
Nomianted: Best Factual Single Programme, RTS Ireland Television Awards
Longlist: ‘Best Documentary’ - 2023 BAFTA
Film Awards
Winner: Audience Award: Best Documentary Feature, Newport Beach Film Festival 2022
Winner: Best Documentary Feature, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival 2022
World Premiere: Venice International Film Festival 2022
A Bright Yellow films, Samson films and Groove International production.
Credits:
Director: Adrian Sibley
Producers: David Collins, Adrian Sibley and George Waud
Executive Producers: David Blake-Knox, Mike Downey, Celine Haddad, Philip Edgar-Jones and Jack Oliver
Director of Photography: Eoin McLoughlin
Editor: Gretta Ohle
Chris Packham: Forever Punk
BBC4 - 60” (2020)The environmentalist reveals how, as a teenager with undiagnosed Asperger's, punk rock may have saved his life. By giving him a purpose, he was able to harness his creativity, which led to him becoming a TV presenter with a determination to champion wildlife.
Chris sets out to question both himself and other former punks who, like him, rocked against racism, fought for gay rights and caused their parents untold grief, to discover if the values they all believed in still hold true today.
"What makes the documentary fascinating is that Packham explains everything from his youthful anger to his affiliation with Extinction Rebellion — whom he sees as the true inheritors of the punk spirit — through his condition."
- The Times
"When Johnny Rotten snarled “No Future” at the close of “God Save the Queen” he can hardly have imagined its relevance for a burning planet more than four decades later… Packham firmly rebuts it: "There is a future and England needs to dream.”"
- The Financial Times (Pick Of The Week)
Credits:
Director & Producer: Adrian Sibley
Executive Producers: James Hunt & John Cassy
Directors of Photography: Doug Hartington & Sam Al-Kadhi
Editor: Steve Miller
Don McCullin: Looking For England
BBC4 - 60’ (2019)Don McCullin: Looking For England follows the inimitable photographer, now 83, documenting his country from inner cities to seaside towns, on a journey in search of his own nation. Sixty years after starting out as a photographer Don returns to his old haunts in London's East End, Bradford, Consett, Eastbourne and Scarborough. Along the way he encounters an array of English characters at The Glyndebourne Festival and Goodwood Revival and photographs a hunt with sabateurs aiming to disrupt them. Don's journey is punctuated by scenes in his darkroom, where he allowed filming for the first time.
A Bright Yellow Films / Oxford Films production for the BBC
"Now, in a real treasure of a film, the 83-year-old visits old haunts and tries to 'discover what makes him tick and this country tick’... This journey is often concerned with the darker corners of our green and eccentric land... Yet this is never po-faced or worthy - it's often enchanting."
- The Times
"A delightful waltz of a watch, it deserved a series."
- The Observer
"Following his riveting journey to Palmyra... a powerful portrait both of a nation divided and of a great artist reckoning with his past."
- The Telegraph
Credits:
Director & Producer: Adrian Sibley
Executive Producers: Nicolas Kent & Sam Hobkinson
Director of Photography: Eoin McLoughlin
Additional photography: Rob Goldie, Steve Foote
Editor: Hugo Fowler
The Road To Palmyra
BBC4 - 60’ (2018)The Road to Palmyra follows historian Dan Cruickshank and photographer Don McCullin into the heart of war torn Syria, on a dangerous mission to document the cultural destruction wrought by so called Islamic State, and understand what it means to the people of the nation.
Their final destination is the ancient city of Palmyra to find out what remains of the ruins. For Dan and Don these stones represent the very soul of Syria, and for Syrians and the world the debate about what to do with them is about to begin.
For both men, it is a return journey to a place with which they have long been obsessed. But to get there, they have to travel through a country that is in still in the grip of war.
A Bright Yellow Films / Oxford Films production for the BBC
"As much as this is a powerful and sobering documentary about what happens when heritage is a victim in a war of ideology, it could also be McCullin's swansong."
- The Times
Credits:
Writer: Dan Cruickshank
Photographs: Don McCullin
Director & Producer: Adrian Sibley
Executive Producers: Nicolas Kent & Sam Hobkinson
Director of Photography: Neil Bonner
Editor: Rick Aplin