Leslie Woodhead
James Leslie John Woodhead,
filmmaker
.
For his National Service commencing in 1956, he served in Fife at the Joint Services School for Linguists where he was taught Russian.[1] He was posted to West Berlin to monitor the communications of Soviet pilots flying in and out of East Germany. "The experience I've come to realise since that it shaped my continuing obsession with what was going on in eastern Europe and particularly the Iron Curtain at that time."[citation needed]
As a young filmmaker, he was assigned to film a new
A Cry From The Grave, which documents, hour by hour, the atrocities of the Srebrenica massacre
, won awards at four film festivals.
Woodhead went freelance in 1989.Beslan school hostage crisis.[4]
Recent filmography
- 2019 Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things (Director)
- 2013 The Day Kennedy Died (Writer/Director)[5]
- 2012 The Hunt for Bin Laden (Writer/Director)
- 2011 9/11: The Day that Changed the World (Director/Producer)
- 2009 How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin (Director)[6][7]
- 2006 Saving Jazz (Director)
- 2005 Children of Beslan (Director/Producer)
- 2004 The Russian Newspaper Murders (Executive Producer)
- 2003 Star Wars Dreams (Director/Producer)
- 2002 Media by Milosevic (Director)
- 2001 NOVA: Russia's Nuclear Warriors (Director/Producer/Screenwriter)
- 2000 Tony Bennett's New York (Director/Producer)
- 2000 NOVA: Holocaust on Trial (Director/Screenwriter)
- 1998 Endurance (Director)
- 1991 The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story (Director)
Awards and nominations
- 1974: BAFTA nomination for Factual Programme for The Year Of The Torturer[8]
- 1986: BAFTA Desmond Davis Award[9]
- 1994: OBE for services to television[3]
- 1999: Biarritz International Festival Special Jury Award for A Cry from the Grave
- 2000: Silver FIPA award for A Cry from the Grave
- 2006:
- 2012: Lifetime Achievement Award at the Aldeburgh Documentary Festival,[3] BAFTA nomination for Single Documentary for 9/11: The Day That Changed The World[11]
- 2014: BAFTA nomination for Single Documentary for The Day Kennedy Died[12]
References
- ^ Woodhead, Leslie (31 October 2003). "Leslie Woodhead: Spy Interview". BBC Four - Storyville. Archived from the original on 12 March 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ Mark Lewisohn, The Beatles: All These Years, Volume 1 – Tune In, Harmony Books, 2013, p. 683
- ^ a b c d "Suffolk festival's lifetime award to documentary maker". BBC News. 18 November 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ a b "Leslie Woodhead". Television Academy. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ Vlessing, Etan (12 November 2013). "Cineflix Rights Sells 'The Day Kennedy Died' to China, Europe". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
- ^ How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin (Television production). New York, NY: WNET.org. 8 November 2009. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
- IMDb
- BAFTA. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- BAFTA. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- BAFTA. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- BAFTA. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- BAFTA. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
External links
- Official website
- Leslie Woodhead at IMDb
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