DocHouse was formed to support and promote documentary in the UK.
It aims to:
- increase participation and develop new audiences for documentaries in
the cinema, on television and emerging media
- create faster and easier access to UK and international documentary
- promote the use of documentary through education at all levels
- nurture and encourage new talent for the future.
DocHouse is based in the UK, with strong international links, for example
in 2005 DocHouse Brussels was established. We run documentary screenings
in cinemas across London and training programmes
in collaboration with major educational establishments.
DocHouse is working to:
- promote public screenings, masterclasses, events, and festivals in collaboration
with existing cinemas
- enable audiences wider access to important historic and contemporary international
documentary through digital media
- facilitate education, research and training
- lobby for the interests of independent documentary with broadcasters,
the industry and government bodies.
DocHouse is a non-profit organisation.
DocHouse team and collaborators
DocHouse team
Director: Elizabeth Wood
Assistant Producer: Chloe Lambourne
Marketing & Publicity: Kate Taunton
Web Editor: Gerri Ellis
Co-ordinator international: Sarah Payton
Database Consultant: John McMahon
Honoury Patrons
Ken Loach, Director
Sir Jeremy Isaacs
Patrons and Advisors
Nick Broomfield: Film-maker
Alan Hayling: Head of Documentary, BBC Television
Prof. Brian Winston: Pro Vice Chancellor, Lincoln University
Jane Balfour: Jane Balfour Services
Alex Cooke: Former Sheffield Documentary Festival Programmer
Peter Dale, Channel 4
Gareth Evans: Journalist, Time Out/Vertigo magazine
Dick Fontaine: Head of Documentary NFTS
Alan Fountain: Former Commissioning Editor C4, Professor in Media Middlesex University; Head of Studies EAVE
Nick Fraser: Series editor,
Storyville, BBC4
Roger Graef, Executive Producer, Films of Record
Andy Glynne:
Documentary Filmmakers Group
Clyde Jeavons: Film Historian and Former Curator of the National Film and Television Archive
Roger Crittenden: Head of the full-time programme,
National Film and Television School
The Department of Media and Communications,
Goldsmiths College, University of London
The Grierson Trust
Marie Louise Wright:
Oxford Documentary Festival
Patrick Russell: Keeper of Non-Fiction,
British Film Institute
Roger Smither: Keeper, Film and Video Archive,
Imperial War Museum
Murray Weston: Director,
British Universities Film & Video Council
Ian Wall: Managing Director,
Film Education
DocHouse supporters
Filmmakers
Nick Broomfield
Peter Davis
Marilyn Gaunt
Sam Green
Mike Grigsby
Tony Grisoni
Ben Hopkins
Asif Kapadia
Kim Longinotto
Philippa Lowthorpe
Angus Macqueen
Carol Morley
Richard Ray Perez
Tom Roberts
Paul Watson
Peter Wintonick
Leslie Woodhead
Professionals
Holly Aylett (Vertigo Magazine)
Maxine Baker (National Film and Television School/Cuban Film School)
Stephen Bayly (Chief Executive National Film and Television School)
Brad Butler (Lightreadings - Artists Film and Video)
Michael Chanan (Professor of Cultural and Media Studies, University of the West of England)
Emma Davie (Filmmaker and UK EDN representative)
Tony Dowmunt (Head of Documentary Goldsmiths University)
Ben Gibson (Director of London Film School)
Amy Hardie (Docspace)
Sandy Lieberson (Producer)
Richard Melman (History Channel UK)
Tim Miller (RCA/ Producer)
Duncan Petrie (Bill Douglas Centre)
Andre Singer (Cafˇ Productions)
Sylvia Stevens (Faction Films/The Other Cinema)
Peter Symes (BBC Producer)
Rodney Wilson (Arts Council/BBC Arts)
Brian Winston (Author, University of Westminster)
International supporters
Carlos Cresto-Dina (Producer, Italy)
Tine Fischer (DFI, Denmark)
Arto Halonen (Filmmaker, Finland)
Kai Hoffman (Stuttgart Documentary Centre, Germany)
Marta Pinho de Almeida (Documentary Centre, Portugal)
Tue Steen Müller (European Documentary Network)
Stephano Tealdi (European Documentary Network, Producer,Italy)
Jan Rofekamp, FilmsTransit, Canada
Kees Ryninks (Docuzone/The Film Fund, Holland)
Diane Weyermann (Sundance Institute)
