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Christopher Hird
Email: christo @ dartmouthfilms.com

Founder and Managing Director

Christopher Hird is a leading figure in UK independent documentary making. He is a former chair of the Sheffield International Documentary Foundation, was the founding chair of the Channel Four BRITDOC Foundation and is a trustee of the Grierson Trust (www.griersontrust.org) and the Wincott Foundation (www.wincott.co.uk).

His career started in The City as a stockbroker but when he got bored by this, he became a journalist working on The Economist, the New Statesman (of which he was deputy editor) and the Sunday Times, where he was editor of the investigative section, Insight. A casualty of the Murdoch regime, he moved into television starting as a reporter on Channel Four’s current affairs programme before co-founding Fulcrum TV, of which he was joint managing director for more than 20 years before it closed in 2007.

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Sandra Leeming

Sandra Leeming is Dartmouth Films’ Head of Production. Over the past 14 years she has worked on a wide range of projects for British and international broadcasters - more than 200 hours of output in total. These projects include documentary, current affairs and factual entertainment programmes, and have ranged greatly in size and budget. She is the Line Producer of The End of the Line and oversees all the production aspects of Dartmouth’s work.

Rachel Seifert

Rachel has worked on a variety of observational, investigative, and social documentaries for BBC, Channel 4, PBS, and Al Jazeera. Among her screen credits is the award-winning feature documentary Who Am I? The Found Children of Argentina.

The film traces the personal stories of several children whose parents were brutally murdered, and themselves were kidnapped during Argentina's 'Dirty War' of 1976-83. Being taken from their parents at an early age, they are now, as young adults, only just finding out their real identities and getting to know who they are. The film is set against the background of the democratic government of Nestor Kirchner and the military trials that are finally bringing the perpetrators to justice.

Rachel is currently in the final stages of editing 'Cocaine Unwrapped' a documentary about the human suffering and cost caused by the cocaine trade and the war against it.

Hannah Gallagher

Hannah started studying film straight out of school at 16 and during her 5 years of training has been taught by the likes of documentary pioneer Paul Watson and award winning screenwriter Brian Clark.

Hannah has since spent 5 years working on award winning programmes for ITV, Channel 4, BBC and Sky as well as a number of British feature films.

Hannah worked on the outreach for The End of the Line including social media, merchandise, screenings, artwork, publicity, and building partnerships. She is currently working on the outreach for The War You Don't See, PLANEAT, Cocaine Unwrapped, and The Flaw as well as developing her own independent documentary.

via agadem.co.uk