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Christopher Hird - Executive
Producer
Christopher Hird is one of the
UK’s most experienced producers
of documentaries and factual
television. He was one of the
founders of Fulcrum Productions,
which was in business for more
than 20 years, making programmes
for broadcasters on both sides
of the Atlantic..
In 2008 he established Dartmouth
Films, to build on his strong
track record in independent
documentary making.
Hird was the executive producer
of The Terror and the
Truth- a three part
series dealing with the issues
of Truth, Justice and
Reconciliation, which was funded
by the Ford Foundation, won the
European Union Humanitarian
Award and was shown on BBC
television. He executive
produced Belonging,
an independent feature length
documentary chronicling the
return of a Cambodian orphan to
Cambodia 28 years later, which
was nominated for the Grierson
Best Theatrical Documentary
Award.
Most recently he was executive
producer of Black Gold,
the feature length documentary
about the plight of the
Ethiopian coffee farmers, which
premiered at the Sundance
Festival in 2006, has been
released theatrically in the USA
and will be in British cinemas
later this year. The film
highlights the injustice of the
world coffee trade and has
already turned public attention
on the coffee purchasing
practices of the big companies,
including Starbucks. |