Anthony Barwell Producer / Director
PROFILE
Resilient shooting producer / director with extensive foreign filming experience and specialism in remote and extreme environments. Able to deliver compelling narrative from the toughest locations. Excellent shooting skills (C300, FS7, primes, etc), accomplished with drone and gimbal, and can bring a distinctive style to a programme. Experienced in shooting actuality, identifying emerging storylines and getting the best out of a wide range of contributors, but equally confident working with established names as well as developing new talent. Strong journalism and script-writing skills and creative in the edit.
Hostile environment training (1st Option) and extreme cold weather training (Polar Challenge). US i visa. British / Australian dual nationality.
INSIDE THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST PRISONS
Raphael Rowe spends a week behind bars, experiencing life inside the world’s toughest prisons.
NETFLIX
SACRED WONDERS: IRAQ
A Yazidi woman, having escaped from ISIS captivity, returns to Iraq to take part in her religion's annual festival.
BBC1
CLAREMONT: A KILLER AMONG US
Documentary feature on Australia’s longest running manhunt. With exclusive access to surviving victims and the WA Police.
PARAMOUNT
EVEREST RESCUE
Obs doc series following an elite group of high altitude helicopter rescue pilots at the height of the climbing season.
DISCOVERY CHANNEL
TOUGH GUY OR CHICKEN – SIBERIA
Five young men spend four months travelling the world, taking on some of the most deadly creatures and hostile places on the planet.
BBC3
OPERATION GOLD RUSH
Prime time adventure / history series. Dan Snow leads a team of experts on an epic expedition from Alaska to the Yukon.
BBC2
ANCIENT CHINA FROM ABOVE
A team of experts go on an intrepid adventure to the far corners of China to solve some of its greatest ancient mysteries.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL
HORIZON: CYBER ATTACK
Hackers and government agents cast light on the murky world of cyber-crime and its potentially devastating consequences.
BBC2
BULLETS, BOOTS & BANDAGES
Military historian Saul David explores how wars are really won and lost – in the backroom sinews of military planning.
BBC4
LAST MAN STANDING – NEPAL
Six western athletes travel to some of the most
remote parts of the world to compete in ancient sporting festivals.
BBC3 / BBC2 / DISCOVERY CHANNEL
ED STAFFORD: FIRST MAN OUT
Ed Stafford competes against the world’s top survivalists in a race to escape some of the world’s most hostile environments.
DISCOVERY CHANNEL
PRIMAL SURVIVOR
Hazen Audel travels to some of the most hostile environments on the planet to undertake an extreme survival challenge.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL
SACRED WONDERS: MALI
Landmark series featuring the world's most phenomenal sacred wonders. Filmed the annual festival at Djenne mosque in Mali.
BBC1
BRITAIN’S WILDEST WEATHER
Prime-time 90 min documentary following people caught in the UK's wildest weather and those who risked their lives to save others.
CHANNEL 4
ARCHAEOLOGY: A SECRET HISTORY
Richard Miles investigates critical breakthroughs and ground-breaking discoveries in the world of archaeology.
BBC4