Brian Edwards (born 16 March 1963 in

Lytham St Annes Lytham St Annes () is a seaside town in the Borough of Fylde in Lancashire, England. It is on the The Fylde, Fylde coast, directly south of Blackpool on the Ribble Estuary. The population of the built-up area at the 2021 United Kingdom census, ...

) is a BAFTA award-winning British documentary filmmaker, who founded and currently runs True Vision, an independent production company, which concentrates mainly on

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-related subjects. Through the company he has been awarded or nominated for several international awards, including six US Emmies, a

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, two US Peabodies, The

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Award, two One World Awards, and three Monte Carlo TV Festival Awards. The company's films have been commissioned by the

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and

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, and have been shown around the world.

Early life and career

Woods was educated at

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, where he read

Natural Sciences Natural science or empirical science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer ...

Fitzwilliam College Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college has origins from 1869, with the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all ...

Awards

With Kate Blewett, Brian Woods received the

UK Media Award in 2002 for

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. Also with Blewett, he made a

documentary, ''Kids Behind Bars'', shown on 17 April 2005, showing the situation of juvenile

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ers in different parts of the world and exploring the problems of juvenile crime and justice; they also co-produced '' The Dying Rooms''.

Other work

Woods is a founding

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of the

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Care of China's Orphaned and Abandoned (COCOA) and a charitable theatre company.

References

External links

Brian Woods

True Vision

11th Annual Media Awards

COCOA

Apex Trust
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