Rowan Deacon (born 1976 or 1977) is an English director and filmmaker.

Career

Deacon is from

Leeds Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built aro ...

, England. She became involved in the industry in 2000. She produced '' Namesakes A Very British Odyssey'' in 2004 and '' When the Moors Ruled in Europe'' in 2005. She directed and produced '' Health Food Junkies'' in 2008, '' Tulisa My Mum and Me'' in 2010, 2012 episodes of ''

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'', '' Keeping Britain Alive: the NHS in a Day'' in 2013, '' Our War: Goodbye Afghanistan'' in 2014 and '' How to Die: Simon's Choice'' in 2016. She was also a researcher and assistant producer on ''

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'' and she was involved with the documentary '' Our War''. Her first hour long film was ''The History of Islam''. In 2008 she directed a documentary about the models who pose as celebrity's body doubles. The documentary ''Our War: Goodbye Afghanistan'' won the 2015

Grierson Award Grierson: The British Documentary Awards, commonly known as The Grierson Awards, are awards bestowed by The Grierson Trust to recognise innovative and exciting documentary films, in honour of the pioneering Scottish documentary filmmaker John ...

for Best Documentary on Current Affairs. She directed the Netflix documentary '' Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story'' which was about the

Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal In late 2012, it emerged that Jimmy Savile, a British media personality who had died the previous year, had sexually abused hundreds of people throughout his life, mostly children but some as old as 75, and mostly female. He had been well kn ...

and was released in April 2022.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Deacon, Rowan Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Mass media people from Leeds British documentary film directors English women film directors