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Francis Whately
Francis Whately is a British television producer, director and series director who started his career in 1998 and worked for BBC for over 20 years. The documentary films he directed were mainly about music. He produced David Bowie: Finding Fame (2019), David Bowie: The Last Five Years (2017), Rock ‘n’ Roll Guns for Hire: The Story of the Sidemen (2017), Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage (2016), Kim Philby – His Most Intimate Betrayal (2014), David Bowie: Five Years (2013).
FOCAL Archive Award for David Bowie Five Years (2014.06)
BAFTA for David Bowie Five Years (2014.04)
BAFTA for the series Andrew Marr's 'History of Modern Britain' (the third director) (2007.05)
This documentary focuses on five key years in David Bowie's career: 1971–1972, 1974–1975, 1976–1977, 1979–1980, 1982–1983. It comments on Bowie's change of image, from Ziggy Stardust to the Soul Star of Young Americans, to "The Thin White Duke", using archive material.
The documentary has continued the previous method of presenting David Bowie’ s life by interviewing others. This documentary was broadcast a year after Bowie’ s death and is also receiving widespread attention. Instead of interviewing Bowie’ s friends and family about Bowie’ s heart attack and later cancer diagnosis, Francis Whately interviewed the musicians who have cooperate with David Bowie in his last two albums (Blackstar and The Next Day) and the New York musical Lazarus. This documentary has showed Bowie’ s innovation in the last five years of his life after nearly a decade of silence.
The documentary mainly focused on the musicians who work behind some of the greatest artists such as Prince, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and Beyoncé and make contribution to change musical history. Those musicians, called ‘Guns for Hire’ in the documentary, are the people who play at live shows and often even contribute to recordings as songwriters or session musicians.
The documentary has looked back over Judi Dench, one of Britain's greatest actors’ s remarkable 60-year career. Unlike other documentaries, this one has showed Judi’ life in a never known, a new angle.
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Francis Whately
Francis Whately is a British television producer, director and series director who started his career in 1998 and worked for BBC for over 20 years. The documentary films he directed were mainly about music. He produced David Bowie: Finding Fame (2019), David Bowie: The Last Five Years (2017), Rock ‘n’ Roll Guns for Hire: The Story of the Sidemen (2017), Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage (2016), Kim Philby – His Most Intimate Betrayal (2014), David Bowie: Five Years (2013).
FOCAL Archive Award for David Bowie Five Years (2014.06)
BAFTA for David Bowie Five Years (2014.04)
BAFTA for the series Andrew Marr's 'History of Modern Britain' (the third director) (2007.05)
This documentary focuses on five key years in David Bowie's career: 1971–1972, 1974–1975, 1976–1977, 1979–1980, 1982–1983. It comments on Bowie's change of image, from Ziggy Stardust to the Soul Star of Young Americans, to "The Thin White Duke", using archive material.
The documentary has continued the previous method of presenting David Bowie’ s life by interviewing others. This documentary was broadcast a year after Bowie’ s death and is also receiving widespread attention. Instead of interviewing Bowie’ s friends and family about Bowie’ s heart attack and later cancer diagnosis, Francis Whately interviewed the musicians who have cooperate with David Bowie in his last two albums (Blackstar and The Next Day) and the New York musical Lazarus. This documentary has showed Bowie’ s innovation in the last five years of his life after nearly a decade of silence.
The documentary mainly focused on the musicians who work behind some of the greatest artists such as Prince, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and Beyoncé and make contribution to change musical history. Those musicians, called ‘Guns for Hire’ in the documentary, are the people who play at live shows and often even contribute to recordings as songwriters or session musicians.
The documentary has looked back over Judi Dench, one of Britain's greatest actors’ s remarkable 60-year career. Unlike other documentaries, this one has showed Judi’ life in a never known, a new angle.