Graham Hoyland Producer/Director  
   
 

Film & Television



SPECIALITIES


Writing and Presenting

HD  camera operator
DV lighting: certificated.
FirstAider
Sound recordist on film and digital shoots.
Camera work in extreme conditions


 

 

 

Film and Television Credits

2013: Design Consultant on the Channel 4 series "Tom & Barney's Excellent Inventions" (working title)

Feb 2012: Climbing Cameraman on the BBC1 series "The Great British Countryside"

Nov 2011 - Mountaineering Consultant on the BBC Radio 4 documentary, "The Freedom Trail"

Feb - Jun 2011 - Producer / Director - The Iceland Everest Expedition 2011. Produced & filmed a commercial DVD for Iceland Foods during their expedition to Everest.

Nov 2007 - March 2009 2nd Camera on the BBC2 and Travel Channel series "Around the World in 80 Faiths".

Jan 2007- Oct 2007  Producer/ Director on BBC 2’s “Horizon- Doctors in the Death Zone.” This was nominated for an RTS Award: “Best Science And Natural History Programme”

March 2006- June 2006  Director & Location Manager on Discovery’s “Everest Extreme”, a series of 6 hour-long programmes featuring a Mount Everest expedition. The series went to air on Nov. 14th 2006 in USA, Feb 6th 2007 in UK.

June 2004-Nov 2007  BBC2’s "Dragons’ Den”- first four series : worked as producer on the online and follow-up shows on the fourth series.  This won an RTS award in 2007: Best Factual Entertainment Programme.

March-May 2004  Producer/Director on BBC 2’s Search for Mallory’s camera”.

Nov 2003-March 2004   Associate Producer on BBC 1 and 3’s  “The Other Boat Race”.

Jan-Dec 2002  Producer on Discovery’s “Escape from Experiment Island”, a wholly-funded Discovery series largely developed by Graham.

 


 


RTS Award
Graham (far left) collecting an RTS Award in 2007

April-July 2001 Director on BBC 1’s “Ballooning over Everest”, a film proposed by Graham which was commissioned in the “Extreme Lives” series.

March-June 2000       Director on BBC 2’s “Return to Everest”, the film of Graham's expedition to find the camera his great-uncle gave to George Mallory shortly before his disappearance on Mount Everest.

Sept-Nov 1999            Assistant Producer/Director on BBC 2’s “Postcards from the Net”, a series                         of three programmes about internet Cafe culture which was largely Graham's idea.

Jan-July 1999    High altitude director on BBC 2’s “Lost on Everest”, the film of Graham's expedition which found George Mallory’s body and tells his story. This has become BBC Worldwide’s largest-ever grossing single documentary, and was a BBC/NOVA co-production.

1995    Safety officer/Sound recordist on Q.E.D.: The FALL AND RISE OF SERGEANT "REGGIE" PERRIN:- Followed Falklands veteran Alan Perrin as he set out to climb Mount McKinley, North America's highest mountain.

 

  
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(c) Graham Hoyland 2014