George Carey (filmmaker)

Carey was educated at Downside School, a boarding independent school for boys in the village of Stratton-on-the-Fosse in Somerset in South West England, followed by the University of Oxford.{{cite web|url=http://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/Journalists-backgrounds-final-report.pdf|title=The Educational Backgrounds of Leading Journalists - Page 20: NEWS EDITORS/PRODUCERS (18)|work=The Sutton Trust|date=15 June 2006|accessdate=25 January 2017|archive-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202022454/http://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/Journalists-backgrounds-final-report.pdf|url-status=dead}}

As a director/editor at BBC News, Carey is credited with the creation of the Newsnight current affairs programme in 1980,{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/newsnight25/4111751.stm | work=BBC News | first=George | last=Carey | title=Newsnight's difficult birth | date=January 21, 2005}}{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4182153.stm | newspaper=BBC News | date =January 21, 2005 | title=Gdansk strikes}} before going on to become Editor of BBC1’s Panorama during the Falklands War.[http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/16428/1/McQueen,D_Ph._2010.pdf | title=BBC TV's Panorama, Conflict Coverage and the 'Westminster Consensus' |] In 1988, he left the BBC to co-found an independent production company with Jenny Barraclough.Jenny Barraclough, http://jennybarraclough.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713101837/http://jennybarraclough.com/ |date=13 July 2011 }} In 1997, Barraclough Carey Productions was acquired by Mentorn Films, and Carey became Creative Director of the new entity, now known as Mentorn Media.{{cite news | first=Andrew | last = Billen | url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article7081635.ece | title=True Stories: A Long Weekend with the Son of God; Cougar Town | newspaper=The Sunday Times | date=March 31, 2010 | location=London}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} As well as producing a series of prize-winning documentaries (see below), he secured the contract to produce the BBC’s weekly political discussion programme Question Time, and originated Channel 4’s Unreported World strand.Channel 4, http://www.channel4.com/search/results.jsp?q=Mongolia&s=&site=channel4&start=81 In 2005, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal Television Society.[http://www.rts.org.uk/Info_page_two_pic_2_det.asp?art_id=6944&sec_id=3489]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 2007, he returned to filmmaking himself, with a five part BBC series on Russia presented by Jonathan Dimbleby,Jonathan Dimbleby: to Russia with love, [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article3778952.ece]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} before shooting and directing several individual documentaries with producer Teresa Cherfas. These included Close Encounters in Siberia, A Long Weekend with the Son of God – both for Channel 4 – and Knocking on Heaven’s Door, Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones, The Spy Who Went into the Cold and Masterspy of Moscow: George Blake,{{Cite web|url=http://www.theartsdesk.com/tv/storyville-masterspy-moscow-george-blake-bbc-four|title=the Arts Desk|last=Birchenough|first=Tom|date=24 March 2015|website=theartsdesk.com|publisher=|access-date=}} all for BBC Storyville.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0109ccb "Knocking on Heaven's Door - Space Race"], BBC Four, 2012.

He served for four years as a board member for Conciliation Resources, an international non-governmental organization,Conciliation Resources, http://www.c-r.org/about/board.php {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612000307/http://www.c-r.org/about/board.php |date=2011-06-12 }} and for two years as Chairman of Trustees of the House of Illustration.

• Terror in Moscow ([http://www.griersontrust.org/ Grierson] prize)
• Babitsky's War (Amnesty International prize)
• The Valley (Prix Italia, Golden Nymph Monte Carlo)
• The Unforgiving (BAFTA)
• Hello Mr President (Peabody Award)
• Fall of Saigon
• The Killing of Kennedy
• Moonlanding
• Blood on their Hands
• Terror in the Mall

• Russia - A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby
• Century Road
• Testing God (Best Religious programme)
• Soul Searching
• Redemption Song
• Queen and Country
• Do you Believe in Magic?
• Visions of Heaven and Hell (Golden Spire, San Francisco)
• The White House Tapes
• The New Jerusalem
• The Tunnel
• Clintons: A Marriage of Power (Broadcast Award)
• Rebellion
• Scare Stories
• The Crimean War
• From Beirut to Bosnia
• Planet Islam
• The Poisoned Chalice
• Mad Cows and Englishmen
• Gunpower USA
• Men in Battle

• The Plague (Royal Television Society Best Series)
• Knife to the Heart
• Cancer Wars
• The Babymakers (BMI Best Medical Series)

• Marilyn: Say Goodbye to the President
• M.I.A.: We'll Keep You Forever
• The Trial of Klaus Barbie
• The Search for the Missing Marcos Millions (Emmy Award)
• Masterspy of Moscow – George Blake
• Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones

• An Ocean Apart
• Families at War (RTS Award)
• Comrades
• Frontiers (ACE Award)

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