John is a filmmaker and television director based in London. With over a decade of experience in the industry, he has worked across many of the UK’s most well-known and respected music programmes.
John has directed BBC & ITV documentaries including Glastonbury’s Greatest Headliners, The BRITs at 40, Beats, Bass & Bars: The Story Of Grime, Gregory Porter’s Popular Voices, Rock n Roll America, Bob Harris: My Nashville, Trad Jazz Britannia and The A-Z of Later with Jools Holland. He also multi-camera directs coverage of the BBC Proms including concerts by Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO, Daniel Barenboim, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
John makes short films for the BBC Glastonbury coverage and The BRIT Awards. He has worked on the BBC’s acclaimed ‘Britannia’ series, including Punk Britannia and Festivals Britannia, Top Of The Pops 2, The Joy Of Abba, The Joy Of Easy Listening, Mercury Music Prize, Radio 1 Big Weekend, Reading and Leeds Festival and Later… with Jools Holland.
For a full CV contact John here.
Broadcast Credits
The BAFTA Film Awards 2023. (Studio Director. Live BBC1. 2023)
BBC Proms: Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra (Director. BBC2. 2022)
BBC Proms: Earth Prom (Director. BBC2. 2022)
Stravinsky: Firebird, Petrushka & The Rite Of Spring (Director. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and OnAir Productions. 2022)
Glastonbury (VT Director. BBC. 2022)
Live from the Barbican (Director. Various shows. Barbican online. 2022-2021)
The First Night of the Proms (Director. BBC2 Live. 2021)
The BRIT Awards (VT Director. ITV1. 2021)
Leeds International Piano Competition (Director. Medici TV. 2021)
A Christmas Celebration: John Rutter & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Director. RPO Online. 2020)
Abel Selaocoe’s Jazz Takeover - with Chesaba and the BBC Concert Orchestra (Director. iPlayer 2020)
BBC Proms: Sir Simon Rattle & the LSO and Kokoroko (Director. BBC4. 2020)
The BRITs at 40 (Producer/Director. ITV1. 2020)
Public Service Broadcasting and Sheku Plays Elgar and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique (Director. BBC Proms. BBC4. 2019)
Glastonbury’s Greatest Headliners (Producer/Director. BBC2. 2019)
The Brits Are Coming (Producer/Director. ITV1. 2019)
Beats, Bass and Bars: The Story Of Grime (Producer/Director. ACME Films/BBC4. 2018)
Pioneers of Sound and Marin Alsop Conducts Bernstein (Director. BBC Proms. BBC4. 2018)
Gregory Porter's Popular Voices (Producer/Director. BBC4. 60min. 2017)
The A-Z of Later... with Jools Holland (Producer/Director. BBC2. 90min. 2017)
Simon Rattle's Gurrelieder and Barenboim's Elgar (Director. BBC Proms. BBC4. 2017)
Brits Icon Robbie Williams (VT Edit Producer. ITV1. 2016)
The Planets with the NYO and Barenboim Conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (Director. BBC Proms. BBC4. 2016)
Montreux Jazz Festival (Producer/Director. Red Bull TV. 2016)
The Art Show (Director. Sky Arts. 2016)
Rock n Roll America: Be My Baby (Producer/Director. BBC4. 60min. 2015)
Concerto at the BBC Proms and Sunday Symphony: James MacMillan (Director. BBC4. 2015)
Bob Harris: My Nashville (Director. BBC4/WBBC. 60min. 2014)
BBC Proms Masterworks: Maxwell Davies (Director. BBC4. 2014)
Trad Jazz Britannia (Producer/Director. BBC4. 60min. 2013)