What David Hevey Does
‘One of the leading documentary makers of a generation’
Huffington Post.
‘On any level, the best programme on television this week’
The Independent on the BBC series The Disabled Century (BBC4 2012 et al) directed/produced by David Hevey.
David Hevey is one of the UK’s leading cultural producer-directors. At the helm of his company David Hevey Productions (DHP CIC LTD), David is a CEO, project-director, creative-director, film and tv director, and creative-media polymath. David is one of the UK’s most original and wide-ranging arts, culture and media professionals working today.
David Hevey makes content – which means David Hevey offers clients a range of contemporary cultural development and production approaches, strategies, genres, platforms, devices and formats. As this website shows, David Hevey Productions offers the full range of contemporary cultural development and production services including:
Film inc. long form documentary.
Short films inc. docs and drama.
Media production including Video.
Heritage Projects, including archives and collections.
Digital campaigns, inc. digital exhibition and distribution.
Social media support and campaigns, inc. how to go viral.
Photography: Portraits and Campaigns.
Live streaming and TTRPG (devised & produced by Liam Hevey).
Arts & Artists Development and Delivery, inc. Business Plans.
Cultural engagement inc events, data and evaluation.
Consultancy for local, national and international orgs.
Business dev, including audience engagement & learning.
CEO – organisational leadership, innovation and change.
Diversity and inclusion strategies and delivery.
Project development and delivery, including fundraising.
David Hevey Artist – commissions and exhibiting.
David Hevey’s Artists’ moving image work – commissions, screenings & exhibitions.
So, David makes original content for most of the UK (and international) arts, heritage, culture and media landscape; known for his pioneering digital heritage work for HLF and others, his innovative media and television work for the BBC and others, his break-out filmmaking for the BBC and much of the UK cultural landscape and much more, David is prolific and works across genre, location and content types.
David Hevey has been profiled countless times in major media, including BBC documentaries about his work, Guardian Image Makers profile about his photography, with his critical theory books becoming University set texts, right through to extensive mainstream press reviews of his media, film and television output, and with his projects such as www.the-ndaca.org being profiled by Design Week and trending on Twitter.
A very small sample of David Hevey’s creative content from within contemporary British commissioning culture shows his prolific mainstream range, from the £1M www.the-ndaca.org (Project and Creative Director, with two House of Lords launches, a learning wing and much more) to his extensive work for the BBC (many series, serials and single films, including three Modern Times and the ‘landmark landmark’ series The Disabled Century).
This website shows more of the prolific and extensive range of all of David Hevey’s cultural projects and creative outputs for clients.
To make contact and talk culture, content and commissions, email contact@davidhevey.com
Making compelling cross platform stories about the way we live now, David Hevey is one of the UK’s leading diverse-media professionals and, as one of the UK’s most original media professionals and a content polymath, David creatively-directs digital, film, tv, moving-and-still campaigns and multi-platform digital arts, heritage & culture projects, working for the major UK cultural institutions. His productions tell good stories made with a purpose. The productions are well told across platforms, they engage audiences & users in the millions, and David Hevey’s media is all about the way we live now.
David delivers big-impact projects. David’s digital, film and tv work has been watched by well over twenty million viewers: his television programmes and films have been viewed by tens of millions, his digital campaigns reach audiences in excess of 5 million, his ‘changing-representation’ campaigns have gone out to over half a million units and his books are sold in their thousands.
David directed three films for the acclaimed BBC documentary series, Modern Times, and has BBC broadcast credits for documentary, drama and docudrama directing, as well as credits for scriptwriter, producer, narrator, TV presenter (From The Edge, BBC2), cinematographer (Modern Times), and critic (The Late Review).
David is also a photographer, his campaigning work is in ‘Photography: A Cultural History’ (Laurence King Publishing US & UK 2006). He has a track record as a writer on representation: ‘The Creatures Time Forgot’ (Routledge), and he speaks as a critic & pundit for the BBC, British Council, and other leading UK cultural institutions.
Currently, with digital production budgets in several £-millions, David Hevey is delivering a string of projects, digital films, campaigns, heritage & episodic-webcast, including www.the-ndaca.org, James Hope’s ‘Diversity Britannia’ (Arts Council England), Unlimited (Shape Arts, SouthBankCentre), ‘Who Has The Power In Your Care?’ (JRF), ‘The Barriers Odyssey’ and ‘Tina & The Death Of Hope In Grim Britain’ (Arts Council England), Shape Creatives (7 documentaries for Shape/ BigLotteryFund) and Project Directing The National Disability Art Collections & Archives (HLF, Shape Arts).
He is also the CEO of Shape Arts.