ANGUS MACQUEEN

Executive Producer

 

Angus has been making and executive producing documentaries for over twenty-five years, combined with a stint as Head of Documentaries at Channel 4 in London.

 

His early work included producing and/or directing such award-winning films as The Hand of Stalin (1989), The Second Russian Revolution (1991), and The Death of Yugoslavia (1995) working with a number of leading documentaries makers such as Brian Lapping, Norma Percy and Tom Roberts.

 

He went on to develop his own films such as the Dancing for Dollars (1997), Gulag (1999) and then The Last Peasants (2003), which told the story of immigration. Other work includes studies of suffering in extremis, with films on Ingrid Betancourt (2011) and her experience in captivity, Aung San Suu Kyi (2012) the Burmese Nobel Prize winner and the experience of the Chilean Miners trapped underground, 17 Days.  He has also made a series of films exploring drugs policy and the effects on people across the world: Cocaine 2005), Our Drugs War (2011) and most recently The Legend of Shorty (2014).

 

Awards for his work which has been shown all over the world, include EMMY, Prix Europa, BAFTA, Royal Television Society, Peabody, Colombia Journalism and Grierson.

 

As an Executive Producer, Angus has years of experience working with some of the best directors in Britain and elsewhere, putting together complex co-productions between broadcasters all over the world to produce films that speak to an international market. He has also used his company, Ronachan Films, to encourage young talent trying to break into the business.