Brian Woods Starts an Independent Production Company

Brian Edwards (born 16 March 1963 in Lytham St Annes) is a BAFTA award-winning British documentary filmmaker, who founded and currently runs True Vision, an independent production company, which concentrates mainly on human rights-related subjects. Woods was educated at Cambridge University, where he read Natural Sciences at Fitzwilliam College. In 1993 he started his first independent production company that evolved into True Vision in the fullness of time. This link and the red VISIT WEBSITE button below will take you to True Vision’s website where you can see the full list of films the company has produced.

Through the company he has been awarded or nominated for several international awards, including six US Emmies, a BAFTA, two US Peabodies, The Amnesty International Documentary Award, two One World Awards, and three Monte Carlo TV Festival Awards. The company’s films have been commissioned by the BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and HBO, and have been shown around the world. Jezza Neumann, Xoliswa Sithole and Brian Woods with award for Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children at the 70th Annual Peabody Awards. With Kate Blewett, Brian Woods received the Amnesty International UK Media Award in 2002 for photojournalism. Also with Blewett, he made a BBC documentary, Kids Behind Bars, shown on 17 April 2005, showing the situation of juvenile prisoners in different parts of the world and exploring the problems of juvenile crime and justice; they also co-produced The Dying Rooms. Woods is also a founding trustee of the charity Care of China’s Orphaned and Abandoned (COCOA) and a charitable theatre company.

Jezza Neumann, Xoliswa Sithole and Brian Woods with award for Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children at the 70th Annual Peabody Awards.

Brian Woods gets involved with projects covering a variety of subjects. Catching a Killer is an example of filmmaking that takes him in an entirely different direction with this true crime documentary television series. Each episode documents detectives with the Thames Valley Police as they investigate a murder. You can watch it here on Channel Four’s website.