Film, Broadcast & Multiplatform Documentary to Commission.

JRF.

An online short film series. JRF: – “In terms of substance, they are spot on” – www.jrf.org.uk/filmgallery/who-has-power-care

The care industry is set up for care-users, yet they have the least power. Social care is in flux and, some say, crisis. Here are the stories from those living at the sharp end of the care crisis – the care users – and it’s time they had more power.

David Hevey: Filmmaker & Scriptwriter.

3 x 40’ film-series for BBC2, BBC4, BFI.

This is David Hevey’s classic, landmark BBC-series exploring one hundred years of disabled people and their fight to join mainstream Britain.

“Brilliant…a really good example of the bigger and better philosophy.” – BBC2 Channel Controller.

“Visually striking” – Paul Hoggart, The Times.

“Beauty and eloquence perpetually forced the viewer to look and hear in fresh ways”. – Robert Hanks, The Independent.

“Exemplary..Magnificent..I hope to see it leading the Bafta nominations”. – Gerard O’Donovan, The Telegraph.

“First rate”. – Jack Dee, The Guardian’s My Media column.

“On any level, the best programme on television this week” – The Independent.

“Extraordinary” – Daily Mail.

“Social history at its finest” – Polly Toynbee, The Guardian.

Mind Mental Health Media Awards nominee.

David Hevey: Series-Producer, Series-Director and Scriptwriter.

From the First World War mental health disasters, to the Second World War needing disabled labour, this episode explores the stories from the survivors of those hard but dramatic times.

David Hevey: Producer, Director & Scriptwriter.

From the post-war euphoria, to living lives of social death in no-access Britain, this episode explores the disabled survivors of those Britain-in-decline times, when Britain won the war but lost the peace.

David Hevey: Producer, Director & Scriptwriter.

From the last days of the long-stay institutions, to the growth of the Disabled People’s Rights movement, this episode explores those who defied incarceration & barriers to forge a new voice for diverse, different and disabled people.

David Hevey: Producer, Director & Scriptwriter.

Online series of 10 artists-portraits films, 2014. Unlimited.

Funded as part of the London 2012 legacy, 10 films for Unlimited celebrating diverse artists’ creative innovation.

Playing at the cutting edge of contemporary digital documentary, this series of films by David Hevey are playing or projected to play on the BBC’s The Space, Unlimited, the SouthBank Centre, the Arts Council England’s Stragetic Digitisation Programme, and within British Council’s promotions, as well as many other partnered sites, anticipating views and hits of a quarter of a million over their lifetime.

David Hevey: Series-Director, Series-Producer & Series-Editor.

Arts Council England.

DVD, Webcast, Digital Cinema; 3 long-form films & 12 short-form films.

This is David Hevey’s controversial film series about empowerment for those cut down in Grim Britain’s cuts landscape; a multiplatform film-set exploring diversity, difference and the end of hope in cuts-landscape, New-Grim Britain.

David Hevey: Executive Producer, Series-Director, Scriptwriter.

(1x 40’)

Arts Council England.

Dark and controversial, funded by Arts Council England, this story of one woman whose heroes-journey in today’s New Grim Britain is about keeping what little she has, while facing her end of even less

David Hevey: Executive Producer, Director, Scriptwriter.

As well as directing many other films, David Hevey also made three BBC Modern Times documentaries. Modern Times is described by BBC1 Channel Controller as ‘the beating heart of British documentary’. Modern Times is the UK landmark documentary strand.

BBC 2 – 50′.

A film about those millions of people seeking peace-of-mind and a voice from the other side.

Performance-documentary with sung & choral narration.

“ Moving and powerful. This sceptic was gripped, vice-like, to the bitter end” Time Out.

“ Successfully, an ironic modernist opera”. The Financial Times

David Hevey: Producer, Director & Scriptwriter.

BBC2 – 50′

All people want justice and some can afford to buy it from that modern force for private justice – the ten thousand private investigators in the UK.

“Strangely sexy” – Time Out.

“Highly stylised” – Daily Mail.

“Great stories” – TV Times.

“Stylish” – TV Quick.

David Hevey: Producer Director & Cinematographer.

BBC2 – 50′

A moving and powerful film about why some men choose to end their lives, and the stories from the people left behind by suicide.

David Hevey: Producer & Director.

BBC2 – 3x 30′

This trilogy of innovative and pioneering films was David Hevey’s landmark BBC2 series of three films which pushed the form of how disabled people are shown in the modern TV era. Employing high-end advertising-techniques of shooting on film, shot by Andrew Douglas (Nike, Adidas, using commissioned scores and a medley of chant, sung-narration and prose, with opening titles designed by Vince Frost; bringing in proscenium-arch, theatre-designed settings and using operatic heightened realist staging to create made-strange mis-en-scene inhabited with challenging images of contributors in cages or naked, while underpinned with strong and deep oral history and documentary-testimony, these were David Heveys BBC half-hour films that helped change how diverse, different and disabled people were shown – the films were critically-successful and trebled the ratings for their post-watershed slots.

David Hevey: Producer, Director & Screenwriter.

BBC2 & NFT

Performance and documentary, about body, difference and acceptance.

“Must have been as courageous to make as it is moving to watch” – The Times.

David Hevey: Producer Director & Scriptwriter.

BBC2 – 30′

A documentary-film & modernist-opera hybrid exploring AIDS, laughter, love, and not dying alone.

“The frank and grimly humorous insights from Aids and HIV victims, framed against such a theatrical setting, are all the more poignant for it” – The London Evening Standard.

“Powerful and provocative” – The Guardian.

“Visually stunning” – Time Out.

David Hevey: Producer, Director & Scriptwriter.

BBC2 – 30′

A film about those who are a bit too different for society.

David Hevey: Producer Director Cinematographer & Scriptwriter.

BBC2 – 30′

A documentary deep inside the Direct Action Network, exploring those noisy ‘crips’ who picketed inaccessible buses, demanding ‘to boldly go where everybody else has gone before’.

David Hevey: Executive Producer.

BBC2 – 30′

The controversial examination of the modern Disabled People’s Rights Movement in Ireland, in a country where nearly half the charity giving still happened at the church door.

David Hevey: Producer, Director & Writer.

BBC2 – 40′

A comedy-drama about William Shakespeare, alive today and very depressed with the commissioning landscape. With Nabil Shaban as Richard 111 and Peter Tate as William Shakespeare.

David Hevey: Director & Screenwriter.

Holy Cow – 10′

A comedy drama-short about two couples in a churchyard. As a wedding plays out in the background, two old tramps and two young lovers explore their lives – the young couple without hope, the old couple full of choices. A short, poignant comedy-drama comparing the young with the old in Britain today.

BIFF Award Winner. Premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival; played at the Prince Charles and other cinemas; distributed to International film festivals by the British Council.

“Well-written, beautiful photography and a moving storyline”. The British Council.

“..nicely paced, beautifully shot and well acted.” David Richardson, Mersey TV

David Hevey: Director & Co-Writer.