Martin Freeth www.mfreeth.com
CREDITS AS DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, to June 2016
This list does not include work as film editor, writer, researcher or assistant producer. Note that most of the recent work listed here is available to view through our website.
Drama productions are shown in blue.
To date Martin has produced and/or directed 68 films/shows longer than 30 minutes and 178 films etc. shorter than 30 minutes.
1966
Southampton University film unit:
MIND THE PAPER FLOWERS
DIALOGUE (short drama)
Play for Manoel Theatre, Malta:
THE PINEDUS AFFAIR
1967
Art Films at Southampton:
CATHEDRAL (about sculptor Michael Kenny)
JONESWORK (about Allen Jones)
SWING (RA schools artists, for Arts Council)
1969
Royal College of Art, Film & TV School:
JUST THE GIRL (drama)
THREE SISTERS (TV play with LAMDA drama school)
For BBC Science and Features department:
1973
HORIZON: ACUPUNCTURE, A CHINESE PUZZLE (BBC2)
CONTROVERSY, series of 6 (BBC2)
1974
THE BURKE SPECIAL, TOWN PLANNING (BBC1)
1975 and 1976
YOUNG SCIENTIST OF THE YEAR, two series of 6 as studio & film director (BBC1)
1977
HORIZON: THE LONG VALLEY (BBC2) part drama
THE BURKE SPECIAL, series of six as series producer (BBC1)
HORIZON DRAMA: DARWIN’S DREAM (BBC2)
1978
HORIZON: GENETIC ROULETTE (BBC2)
HORIZON: I DON’T WANT TO BE A BURDEN (BBC2)
1979
HORIZON: THE FAT IN THE FIRE (BBC2)
HORIZON: CAREERING INTO SCIENCE (BBC2)
1980
TWO-HOUR SCIENCE SPECIAL: EINSTEIN’S UNIVERSE (BBC2/WGBH)
HORIZON: THE SPIKE (BBC2) Medical Journalists Association award winner
1981
HORIZON: THE OTHER KENYA (BBC2)
HORIZON: THE MIND’S EYE (BBC2)
SCIENCE SPECIAL: THE COMET IS COMING (BBC2)
1982
THE STATE OF THE PLANET (BBC2)
1983
HORIZON: WHAT LITTLE GIRLS ARE MADE OF (BBC2) part drama
HORIZON: FINDING A VOICE (BBC2/WGBH) Robert F Kennedy documentary film award
1984
HORIZON DRAMA: THE INTELLGENCE MAN (BBC2)
1985
HORIZON: CAREERING ON (BBC2)
HORIZON: A NEW GREEN REVOLUTION? (BBC2)
1986
TOMORROW’S WORLD: AIRSHIP SPECIAL (BBC1)
TOMORROW’S WORLD: STAR WARS SPECIAL (BBC1)
TOMORROW’S WORLD: DISASTER SPOT AND OTHER STORIES (BBC1)
TOMORROW’S WORLD: TWENTY-FIRST BRTHDAY SPECIAL (BBC1)
1988
INTERNATIONAL SERIES OF 13: THE MIND MACHINE (BBC2/WNET)
As series producer and director of some episodes.
1990
TOMORROW’SWORLD: QUARTER CENTURY SHOW (AFRICA)
1991
ANTENNA: FOG OF IGNORANCE (BBC2)
ANTENNA: LEAKEY’S WILDLIFE (BBC2) revised repeat in 1993
1992
ANTENNA: IMMUNISING AGAINST POVERTY (BBC2)
ANTENNA: A GENE FOR SPEECH (BBC2)
1993
INTERNATIONAL SERIES OF 8: THE TROUBLE WITH MEDICINE (BBC2/WNET)
1994
THE EXPLORATORY, SERIES OF 4 (BBC2)
HORIZON: SMALL ARMS, SOFT TARGETS (BBC2)
LOST FOR WORDS (film drama for Salamander Theatre)
1995 to 1997
BBC MUTIMEDIA CENTRE: producer of numerous experimental interactive projects such as THE BACH CD-ROM, THE TROUBLES CD-ROM, THE MUSICAL NOMAD (on line) and prototypes of the new BBC ONLINE service.
1997 to 1998
EXPLORE AT BRISTOL
As director of this hands-on science centre, video played a part in many displays.
1998 to 2003
NESTA
Produced a few short films including ‘Artist, Scientist, Sculptor’ while working as the organisation’s Deputy Chief Executive.
2003 to 2005
NESTA FUTURELAB
Produced experimental interactive learning projects while chief executive, including: Size Matters, Savannah, and experiments with the Performing Arts Lab.
2005 to 2009
RED, GREEN AND BLUE, then
WINDFALL DIGITAL
Projects as executive producer, producer or director included:
DNA INTERACTVE (for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Windfall Films)
BREAST CANCER TREATMENT CHOICES, interactive DVD-Rom (for MINDACT)
MUMMY: THE INSIDE STORY (completion work only, with Windfall and the British Museum)
BEAUTIFUL PHYSICS (DVD for the British Council)
BIRDS OF THE WESTERN PALEARCTIC INTERACTIVE (with RGB)
BIRDING IN (with RGB )
THE PERIODIC TABLE INTERACTIVE (with RGB)
QUARTERLY VIDEO FINANCIAL REPORTS (for State Street Global Advisers)
SHORT FILMS FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS (for Guardian media Group and DirectGovKids
ETHICAL EMPORIUM (with the Wellcome Trust)
CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER (an interactive video-based science centre installation, with the Wellcome Trust)
A SERIES OF FILMS OVER 3 YEARS ABOUT LASKER PRIZE WINNERS (for the Lasker Foundation, USA)
2010 to present – MFREETH.COM
36 SHORT FILMS FOR THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL
THE EVIDENCE, a series of eight short films based on stories from the BMJ’s archive
- The woman who knew too much (about Alice Stewart)
- The Man who stopped smoking (about Sir Richard Doll)
- The TB trials (about John Crofton)
- Death by mosquito (about Ross and Manson)
- Surgery transformed (about Joseph Lister)
- A new world is born (about James Simpson)
- The Stories (with Colin Blakemore)
- The Issues (with Ben Goldacre)
INNOVATIONS, a series of six short films about medical innovation
- Tournistrip
- Adaptive Eyewear
- Gentamicin Calculator
- Shit Matters
- Twitter Epidemics
- UK Biobank
BREATHLESS (about Asthma and sport, partly filmed in Spain)
THE GIANTS CAUSE (about Charles Byrne and acromegaly)
BEETHOVEN’S DEAFNESS, AND HIS THREE STYLES
FIND AND TREAT (the hunt for TB in London)
THE HARMS OF OVER-TREATMENT (filmed in the USA)
WHAT TO DRINK WITH A SWISS CHEESE FONDUE (English and German versions, filmed in Switzerland)
ASKING FOR MORE, OLIVER TWIST RE-VISITED
SLEEP WELL (about sleep apnoea)
THE HUNT FOR MYSTERY DISEASES (filmed in the USA)
MIGRAINE: THE PRESSURE AND THE PAIN
HIV SHOOTS UP
VIRTUAL REALITY TRAINING (filmed in Amsterdam)
THE HOT TEA FACTOR (hot drinks and oesophageal cancer in Iran)
MAISIE AND GEORGE AND THE FUTURE OF THEIR PLANET (energy use in the NHS)
SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME
THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
FATAL ALCHEMY (a partly dramatized story about harmful metals found in Diane de Poitier’s bones, filmed in France, performed by Lilley Mitchell)
WHAT OLYMPIC LEGACY? (discussing the supposed benefits to health of the Olympic Games)
SMELLING THE DIAGNOSIS (a dog sniffs out C.Diff in patients in Amsterdam)
CELEBRITIES AND HEALTH: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
CAPTAIN WEBB’S LEGACY: THE PERILS OF SWIMMING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
BLOOD CURDLING (horror films clot the blood, filmed in Leiden)
SEVERAL FILMS COVERING AN INDIAN CARDIOLOGY CONFERENCE AND OTHER BMJ LEARNING CONFERENCES
15 FILMS FOR NATURE
THE JAWS OF THE LEVIATHAN (about a fossilised whale)
WALKING WITH TETRAPODS
A FLASH FROM THE EARLY UNIVERSE
AN INDIAN HOT SPOT (finding water via satellite)
MEGA IMPACT ON MARS
STICKY-TAPE X-RAYS (a strange phenomenon being researched in California)
ANCIENT TSUNAMIS
THE ANTIKYTHERA STORY
THE PLATIPUS GENOME
A PIECE OF THE MONKEY PUZZLE (in English and Arabic versions)
THE MOTHER FISH (a fossilised fish that gave birth)
WHALE EVOLUTON
THE VOYAGER MISSIONS
NICOTINE, SMOKING AND GENETICS
FOR SCIENTISTS, BY SCIENTISTS (the merger of ‘Frontiers’ with ‘Nature’)
PROMOTIONAL FILM FOR A NATURE JOBS CONFERENCE
39 SHORT FILMS FOR THE LINDAU NOBEL FOUNDATION AND NATURE
featuring Nobel Prize winners and young scientists
2008
MISSIONS IN SPACE-TIME
- Strings and particles
- Dark matter, dark energy
- The quantum lattice
- Fibre and light
- Abolishing time
2009
NOBEL REACTIONS
- Breaking down Alzheimer’s
- Nanotechnology: use and misuse
- Smart drugs and sneaky microbes
- Seeing green
- Catalysts and collaboration
CLIMATE CHANGE: THE TWO-DEGREE TARGET
2010
A MEETING OF MINDS
- Meeting the systems sceptic
- The handedness of life
- Sex and stigma
- Making miniature machines
- Turning the tables
THE SPIRIT OF LINDAU (historical documentary)
2011
STRANDS OF LIFE (films made in both English and Chinese versions)
- The virus catchers
- Combating cancer
- Bench or bedside
- A life in science
- Hungry for knowledge
2012
CONFRONTING THE UNIVERSE
- A golden age?
- The energy endgame
- Is dark matter real?
- Beyond the classroom
- Betting on the cosmos
2013
BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY
- Fuelling controversy
- Science in the developing world
- Industry’s rare resources
- New drugs for old bugs
2014
A PICTURE OF HEALTH (presented by Lorna Stewart)
- HIV in hiding
- The long goodbye
- May cause drowsiness
- Winning the war
2015
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Accompanying animations created by Nature, we made three documentaries
- Science from the ivory tower
- Opportunities for women
- A challenge for academia
Plus a promotional animation for Mars which I directed:
- Unlocking the potential of orphan crops
FOR BUSINESS
FOR MARS INC
- 8 promotional films and 8 internal news stories for Mars Inc. celebrating their role as sponsors of the Lindau Nobel meetings between 2009 and 2015.
- High quality science done in a caring way (a film about the Mars pet research centre)
- Flaviola (the benefits of cocoa flavanols)
FOR J P MORGAN
- Promotional films in various versions filmed at J P Morgan’s annual Paris conferences in 2011 and 2012
FOR RAILTEAM
- A film made for seven different European rail companies about the service they deliver
FOR ZURICH INSURANCE (via First Word)
- A short promotional film about Income Protection Gap policies and their role in mitigating stress in the workplace
FOR CLAIMS
- The Barclays victims
- The banks’ latest stitch-up
FOR GRUNENTHAL AND BRITISH PAIN SOCIETY (via CNC)
- Filmed media training sessions
FILMS ABOUT ULTRASOUND THERAPY FOR INSIGHTEC AND THE THUNDDAR PROJECT
- Heather Fraser’s Story
- Breaking the Barrier (about Alzheimer’s research)
- The science of focused ultrasound
- A week in the Mountains (a research conference in les Houches), short and longer versions
- The case of the disappearing essential tremor
- Ultrasound therapy: the basic (animation)
- A series of individual interview with medical scientists
11 FILMS FOR CHARITIES
ADDACTION
- Breaking the cycle
- Our journey to recovery
MIND/TIME TO CHANGE
- On the Edge (created with the Newfound Theatre, a short drama about suicide and the media’s coverage of depression)
PEPPER FOUNDATION
- A day in the life (short fund raising film)
- With a little help from our friends (longer documentary)
FOR MEDICAL JUSTICE
- Fit to fly? (asylum seekers and medical care)
THE MAIL DEVELOPMENT GROUP
- The road to Mafélé (development projects in Mali)
THE McCORD HOSPITAL, DURBAN
- The Spirit of McCord (HIV in South Africa)
CENTRE FOR VISION IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
- A clear vision (11 minutes)
- Child vision (7 minutes)
- Fund-raising promotional film (2 minutes)
FILMS FOR THE BAHAR CHOIR IN LONDON
- Voices from a Spring Garden (13 minutes) in English and Farsi versions
45 SHORT FILMS FOR LOCAL MEDIA
CHISWICK LOCAL BUZZ FILMS
- Local Buzz is coming
- Kew bridge steam museum
- Mechanical musical dreams
- What makes Chiswick special?
- Mrs Joshi’s medal
- St Margaret’s: trouble ahead?
- The Bees and the Blues
- Café chantant
- A festival of colour
- Interviews with Mary McLeod MP
- Pavement wars
- A cheesy pub quiz
- The wizards of Mattock Lane
THE LIVING MAP OF LABASTIDE
- 32 short films about people, places and businesses in Labastide d’Armagnac, linked to an interactive map of the village
THE CHISWICK CALENDAR
- A presentation by Wayne Sleep
VARIOUS
FOR PETER AND MARIOLINA FREETH
- An extended interview with Peter Freeth RA about his life and art
FOR THE INCHI TRUST
- What on earth is the InChI?
- The birth of the InChI
- The Googlable InChI key
- InChI and the islands
FOR CHOREOGRAPHER HANNAH BRUCE
- The look of the thing – film about a site specific dance project
FOR OSTEOPATH, EMANUEL SAMMUT
- I could have danced (presented and danced by Lilley Mtchell)
THE X-RAY TIME MACHINE (commissioned by Images First and Roger Hadland). This 26 minute film, made in collaboration with Tony Freeth, has so far been shown on German TV.
This film won three awards at the Archaeology Channel Film Festival 2016 in the USA.
FOR CAROLINE HOLMES, GARDEN DESIGNER
A film about new gardens being created around Notre Dame in Calais.
- FRENCH VERSION: Gravée dans mon Coeur: un nouveau jardin pour Calais
- ENGLISH VERSION: Engraved on my Heart: a new garden for Calais
FOR GERMAN TELEVISION IN JUNE 2016
THE BEST OF ENEMIES (a series of 6 X 15 minute films in English, subtitled in German)
Film 1 WHAT DO THE BRITISH REALLY THINK OF THE GERMANS? /
WAS DIE BRITEN WIRKLICH ÜBER DIE DEUTSCHEN DENKEN
Film 2 WAR TIMES / KRIEGSZEIT
Film 3 GOALS AND SCHOOLS / FUSSBALL UND SCHULE
Film 4 CAR WARS / KRIEG DER AUTOS
Film 5 THE ELECTRIC FUTURE / DIE ZUKUNFT DER ENERGIE
Film 6 STEREOTYPES & PROPAGANDA / KLISCHEES UND PROPAGANDA
FILMS FOR THE LIEDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE
- Why Me? Long and short versions if films about epidemiology, presented in both English and Dutch
Note:
To find out about a range of pilot projects and current work in progress, contact: martin@mfreeth.com.