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Title: ANTONIA BIRD: FROM EASTENDERS TO HOLLYWOOD

Reference number: 13944

Date: 2016

Director: d. Susan Kemp

Sponsor: UK National Lottery through Creative Scotland Targeted Production Funding

Production company: BofA Productions

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 90 mins

Description: The British director Antonia Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 1970s, via the ground-breaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s. [Synopsis taken from the BBC Programme Index, https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b07chwf7, last accessed 14/12/21]

She won four Baftas, nurtured some of our greatest actors, and became the first British woman to direct a Hollywood movie. Yet, less than three years after her early death in 2013, her name is little known, and her work largely forgotten.

Catalogued from secondary sources including the BBC Programme Index, Creative Scotland and the BFI websites.

See, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07chwf7, for clips and more information on Antonia Bird, from the BBC.

Credits: [on-screen participant Kay Mellor
on-screen participant Kate Hardie
on-screen participant Mark Cousins
on-screen participant Robert Carlyle
on-screen participant George Faber
on-screen participant Anita Dobson
on-screen participant David Thompson
on-screen participant Steven Mackintosh
on-screen participant Caroline Oulton
on-screen participant Paul Unwin
on-screen participant Jane Sillars
on-screen participant Jonathan Powell
on-screen participant Pippa Harris
on-screen participant Ruth Caleb
on-screen participant St. John O'Rorke
on-screen participant Irvine Welsh
on-screen participant Florian Hoffmeister
on-screen participant Adrian Corker
on-screen participant Susan Wilkins
on-screen participant Paul Turp
on-screen participant Ronan Bennett
on-screen participant Finola Dwyer
on-screen participant Mark Gill
Credits
Direction:
Director Susan Kemp
Subject:
[Subject of Programme] Antonia Bird
Production:
Production Company BofA Productions
Executive Producer Mark Bell
Executive Producer Mark Cousins
Producer Adam Dawtrey
Producer Mary Bell
Photography:
Camera Operator Susan Kemp
Editing:
Editor Susan Kemp]