George Carey (born 1943) is a British documentary filmmaker and television journalist.
George Carey (born 1943) is a British documentary filmmaker and television journalist.
Carey was educated at Downside School, a boarding independent school for boys in the village of Stratton-on-the-Fosse in Somerset in South West England, followed by the University of Oxford. [1]
As a director/editor at BBC News, Carey is credited with the creation of the Newsnight current affairs programme in 1980, [2] [3] before going on to become Editor of BBC1’s Panorama during the Falklands War. [4] In 1988, he left the BBC to co-found an independent production company with Jenny Barraclough. [5] In 1997, Barraclough Carey Productions was acquired by Mentorn Films, and Carey became Creative Director of the new entity, now known as Mentorn Media. [6] As well as producing a series of prize-winning documentaries (see below), he secured the contract to produce the BBC’s weekly political discussion programme Question Time , and originated Channel 4’s Unreported World strand. [7] In 2005, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal Television Society. [8] In 2007, he returned to filmmaking himself, with a five part BBC series on Russia presented by Jonathan Dimbleby, [9] before shooting and directing several individual documentaries with producer Teresa Cherfas. These included Close Encounters in Siberia, A Long Weekend with the Son of God – both for Channel 4 – and Knocking on Heaven’s Door, Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones, The Spy Who Went into the Cold and Masterspy of Moscow: George Blake, [10] all for BBC Storyville . [11]
He served for four years as a board member for Conciliation Resources, an international non-governmental organization, [12] and for two years as Chairman of Trustees of the House of Illustration.
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