MATT ASHTON BFE

Film Editor

Documentary credits


The Battle for Black Music: Paid in Full

The series documents the extent of the historic injustice suffered by Black artists including the disparity of profits received by them despite having created the records that have driven the fabric and culture of popular music. Joining the dots between earlier decades in the story of the music industry from jazz and rock and roll to soul and rap the series will also look at racial inequality in the music industry both today and in the past.


3 x 60min for BBC and CBC (Canada)

Executive Producer: Idris Elba  |  Show Runner: David Upshal  |  Series Producer: Guy Evans

Supercollider & Green Door Pictures


Inside China’s Tech Boom

This series explores the often hidden world of Chinese innovation. While taking a tour through China’s high-profile scientific endeavours, the series highlights the systems that have enabled Chinese science to accomplish so much so quickly.


1 x 60min for PBS Nova     

Executive Producer: David Dugan  |  Director: David Borenstein

Windfall Films


Disgraced: The Beth Alexander Story

Feature length documentary about the high-profile story of a British born Beth Alexander, who was brought into the fold of an ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Vienna Austria, only to become victim of a hidden culture where women’s rights are subjugated as the norm. It’s a story of conspiracy, manipulation, and misogyny, when the religiosity and orthodoxy of a tiny insulated community can come together to fight against outsiders.


1 x 90min for BBC and Paramount+

Executive Producer: Andy Glynne  |  Director: Jane Mingay

Mosaic Films


Ronnie Wood: Somebody Up There Likes Me

This film explores the life of Ronnie Wood through his musical career his art and his personal challenges. Ronnie guides us on a journey through his life - painting and performing accompanied by the friends musicians and artists who have been part of his life over the years including Damian Hirst, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Imelda May and Rod Stewart.


1 x 75min for Sky Arts and theatrical release

Executive Producer: Peter Worsley  |  Director: Mike Figgis

Eagle Rock Films


John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky

Music documentary telling the untold story of John Lennon's 1971 album Imagine exploring the creative collaboration between Lennon and Yoko Ono and featuring interviews and never-seen-before footage.


1 x 60min for Channel 4     

Executive Producer: Peter Worsley  |  Director: Michael Epstein

Eagle Rock Films


The Billionaires Who Made Our World: Bill Gates

With exclusive access to friends former colleagues and insiders the series deep dives into Silicon Valley and beyond to explore the inside story of three of the world’s richest men all giants of the tech world: Bill Gates Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.


3 x 60min for Channel 4

Executiive Producer: Tom Porter  |  Series Producer: Storm Theunissen

Britespark Films


Classic Albums: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Freak Out

The Mothers of Invention led by Frank Zappa unleashed the audacious debut album Freak Out! in June 1966. It was the first rock concept album and one of the first double rock albums totally unique with its mixture of pastiche and musical collage. Through interviews performance and archive footage this film uncovers just how they created the album with the help of legendary African-American producer Tom Wilson.


1 x 60min for Sky Arts

Executive Producer: Peter Worsley  |  Director: Matthew Longfellow

Mercury Studios


The Kinks: Echoes of a World - The Story of the Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

The story of the 1968 album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. After failing to chart upon release it went on to become one of the most influential works in rock.


1 x 60min for Sky Arts

Producer: Andrew Winter  |  Director: Charlie Thomas

Windfall Films


Chinese Chariot Revealed

For over 1000 years, chariots thundered across China's battlefields, dominating warfare longer than anywhere else on earth. A team of experts rebuild an ancient battle chariot to help uncover its design secrets.


1 x 60min for PBS Nova

Executive Producer: Bill Locke  |  Director: Giulia Clark

Lion Television                                             

               



Factual entertainment credits


Lost Beasts Unearthed

The series combines unique access to real-time paleontology investigations, pioneering technology, and explosive CGI animations to unlock the mysteries of the biggest beasts ever to have lived on our planet. From deadly T-Rex’s, to giant woolly mammoths and terrifying sabre-tooth tigers, to ancient sea-monsters.


6 x 60min for National Geographic Channel

Executive Producer: Carlos Massarella  |  Series Producer: James Franklin

Windfall Films


Eat Africa with Lupita Nyong’o

In this new travelogue series A-list star Lupita Nyong'o travels across Africa from West to East, North to South offering a unique insight into local culture and a continent.


6 x 60min for Smithsonian

Show Runner: Amy Joyce  |  Series Edit Producer: Karen Selway

Plimsoll Productions


Life on the Edge

The series chronicles the lives of fearless homesteaders and daring American entrepreneurs as they live off-the-grid in some of the harshest and most unforgiving terrain in the world.


6 x 60min for The Outdoor Channel

Executive Producer: Christian Broadhurst  |  Series Producer: Michael Wadding

Rare TV


Secrets of the Superfactories

Cameras go behind closed doors to reveal the smartest and greenest factories on earth making products of astonishing complexity.


8 x 60min for The Science Channel

Executive Producer: Thomas Viner  |  Series Producer: Michael Rees

Pioneer Productions


Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom

A series which takes viewers behind the scenes with the animal-care experts veterinarians and biologists at Disney's Animal Kingdom and Epcot's SeaBase aquarium.


10 x 60min for Disney+ and Nat Geo

Executive Producer: Ashley Potterton  |  Series Producer: Sophia Roberts

Arrow Media


Engineering the Future

An inspirational series exploring spectacular new machines that are being built right now featuring technology that could save the world from man-made disaster. Driven by visionaries and designed by passionate teams of forward-looking engineers these mega-machines have the potential to revolutionise energy production transportation aviation and more.


6 x 60min for Curiosity Stream

Executive Producer: Ben Bowie  |  Series Producer: David Hatter

Biggerbang TV


Phil Spencer's Stately Homes: Harewood House

Property expert Phil Spencer visits some of Britain's best stately homes to learn about their rich history and enormous upkeep cost.


6 x 60min for Channel 4

Executive Producer: Marcus Stephenson  |  Series Producer: Mark Ball

Mayfly TV


Richard Hammond's Big!: The Brenner Pass

The series presented by Richard Hammond. Look at huge engineering undertakings around the world and the nature of these structures and devices the problems they were invented to overcome and the thinking that got them to be the way that they are.


6 x 60min for Discovery

Executive Producer: Michael Massey  |  Series Producer: Matthew Gillbe

Chimp TV


The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys: Canada

Bill Nighy narrates the stories of epic train journeys through stunning scenery.


6 x 60min for Channel 5

Executive Producer: Tom Porter  |  Series Producer: Clare Fisher

Britespark Films



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