Adrian Sibley is an award-winning documentary director and producer whose films have explored some of the defining figures in the arts.
Richard Burton: Wild Genius for the BBC, received two BAFTA Cymru nominations and won the Gold Documetary Award at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2026.
The feature documentary The Ghost of Richard Harris premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won Best Documentary at the Newport Beach and Fort Lauderdale film festivals. It was longlisted for the 2023 BAFTA Film Awards and nominated at the Irish Film & Television Academy Awards and the Royal Television Society Awards.
Other films include the conttroversial Chris Packham: Is It Time to Break the Law? for C4 which won the Critical Award for Best Documentary on Sustainabilty. He also made Forever Punk with Chris for the BBC, and worked twice with legendary photographer Sir Don McCullin, travelling through war torn Syria in The Road to Palmyra and again in Looking for England.
He explored the work of some remarkable artists in The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill and Prince: Last Year of a Legend, Anthony Hopkins: A Taste for Hannibal and Steve Martin: Seriously Funny, as well as the BAFTA winning The Show Must Go On, following Baz Luhrmann during the making and promotion of Moulin Rouge!.
His production company, Bright Yellow Films, has co-produced Richard Burton: Wild Genius, The Ghost of Richard Harris and the successful feature doc Misha and the Wolves, as well as the two films with Don McCullin. Misha and the Wolves premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is on Netflix.
Adrian has worked in drama, both. as a second unit director on Still Crazy, starring Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall and Stephen Rea, and writing screenplays for Nicole Kidman and Gary Oldman.
EMAIL: adrian.sibley@gmail.com
Richard Burton: Wild Genius for the BBC, received two BAFTA Cymru nominations and won the Gold Documetary Award at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2026.
The feature documentary The Ghost of Richard Harris premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won Best Documentary at the Newport Beach and Fort Lauderdale film festivals. It was longlisted for the 2023 BAFTA Film Awards and nominated at the Irish Film & Television Academy Awards and the Royal Television Society Awards.
Other films include the conttroversial Chris Packham: Is It Time to Break the Law? for C4 which won the Critical Award for Best Documentary on Sustainabilty. He also made Forever Punk with Chris for the BBC, and worked twice with legendary photographer Sir Don McCullin, travelling through war torn Syria in The Road to Palmyra and again in Looking for England.
He explored the work of some remarkable artists in The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill and Prince: Last Year of a Legend, Anthony Hopkins: A Taste for Hannibal and Steve Martin: Seriously Funny, as well as the BAFTA winning The Show Must Go On, following Baz Luhrmann during the making and promotion of Moulin Rouge!.
His production company, Bright Yellow Films, has co-produced Richard Burton: Wild Genius, The Ghost of Richard Harris and the successful feature doc Misha and the Wolves, as well as the two films with Don McCullin. Misha and the Wolves premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is on Netflix.
Adrian has worked in drama, both. as a second unit director on Still Crazy, starring Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall and Stephen Rea, and writing screenplays for Nicole Kidman and Gary Oldman.
EMAIL: adrian.sibley@gmail.com