Emma Hindley: Last News

EXCLUSIVE: BBC Storyville has acquired U.K. rights to the Sundance prize-winning doc Bad Press. 

K.J. Yossman Execs from BBC Storyville and Canada’s CBC are among the speakers lined up for Israel’s CoPro market next month. Emma Hindley, lead commissioning editor at the BBC’s documentary strand Storyville, and CBC commissioning editor Jordana Ross will be among the film and television industry leaders on stage at the conference. Other confirmed speakers include France Télévisions commissioning editors Renaud Allilaire and Caroline Behar, POV coordinating producer Robert Y. Chang, Impact Partners exec producer Lauren Haber, Participant Media director Amanda Hillsberg Arya, Arte G.E.I.E. commissioning editor Catherine Le Goff and RAI Documentari director Fabrizio Zappi.

BBC Storyville has appointed Emma Hindley as its Lead Commissioning Editor.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: BBC One is to continue its theme of getting sports stars to confront their personal demons in a new documentary fronted by former England football player Ian Wright.Deadline understands that the Match Of The Day pundit and former Arsenal soccer star has teamed up with David Harewood: Psychosis And Me producer Films Of Record to look back on his difficult upbringing in London.Working titled Ian Wright: Facing Up To My Traumatic Childhood, the film comes as Wright has previously opened up about being bullied by his stepfather and how his troubled youth was turned around by a conscientious teacher.