Beccy comes from a background in TV drama, feature films and broadcast work. Her career has taken her all over the world as a camerawoman and sound recordist, working on documentaries and natural history for the BBC, National Geographic, Animal Planet, Discovery and Channel 4.
Beccy’s work has been wide ranging and covered high profile celebrity led films (Sandi Toksvig, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters, Martin Freeman and David Attenborough), extreme sports, natural history, documentary, music and entertainment.
For 20 years Beccy has produced video content for charities, social justice and environmental organizations, as well as collaborating with artists, writers and musicians.
She also works on a freelance basis as an editor recently editing the feature length Documentary Gateways Grind for BBC4 and the feature length music documentary Cliff Top Sessions. (independant cinema release).
CHARITY SECTOR/SOCIAL ENTERPRISE/COMMERCIAL
Producer/Camera/Editor
Equality Impact Investing - Series of online training films on investment promoting equality and human rights
Cycle Systems Academy - Series of 40 + online masterclasses in bike maintenance
North Devon Council/Carbon Savvy - Series of short training films and press launch for Find Your Co2 Footprint Week
Plants and Colour - Series of online masterclasses in natural dye and paint-making
Mitchell and Dickinson - Marketing and training films for a groundbreaking insulation company
Five Rivers Fostering - Marketing films and also coproducing with young people in care
Dartmoor National Park Authority - Marketing for the national park
Marie Stopes International, China - Marketing films
Marie Stopes International, UK - Series of training films
Marie Stopes International, Nepal - Training films
Tommy’s (Premature Birth Charity) - Marketing, awhareness raising, and fundraising films
Transition Network - Documentary
Pride - Film commission
The Clinton Hunter Foundation - Marketing
Theatre Royal Plymouth (comic relief funded) - Refugee outreach co production film work
The David Scheldrick Wildlife Trust Kenya - Documentary
NCH (National Children’s Homes) - Fundraising film
NHS - Series of training films
ART COLLABORATIONS - (DOP/Editor)
Tall Tales and Wonder Rooms - Arts institute film commission 2021 in collaboration with The Box - Plymouth
Paradise Lost - This film work explores the rich history of shipwrecks in Plymouth in relation to empire, slavery and indenture. two screen cinematic installation - The Mirror Gallery, Plymouth
Belated - film installation commissioned by Autograph for the exibition Care I Contagion I Community – Self & Other (2020)
Trish Morrissey
Eupnia - Two screen cinematic film installation as part of a retrospective show of the artists work Serlachius Gallery, Finland
Madge - film installation for the artist Trish Morrissey show at Hestercombe Gallery
Eliza and Six Scenes for the show A Certain Slant of Light - two films for the artist Trish Morrissey. Cinematic Installations shown at Hestercombe Gallery (Devon) and the Francesca Maffeo Gallery (London).
Melanie Eclare
Installation for the Verzasca FOTO festival showcasing the festivals first prize winning work of art photographer Melanie Eclare.
Martin Shaw
Three films and media campaign for launch of the authors new book.
Peter Oswald
Films to promote the work of award winning playwright Peter Oswald
Alice Oswald
Shadow a film for the award winning poet Alice Oswald shown at The Poetry Society, Buckingham Palace.
BROADCAST WORK
Cliff Top Sessions 2 (editor) - currently in post production
BBC4 (editor) - Gateways Grind - Gateways walked so that pretty much every establishment on Old Compton Street could run. This Sandi Toksvig-fronted documentary explores the history and legacy of Britain’s longest surviving lesbian bar. While the King’s Road may have moved on, the fascinating story of a club won in a poker game that eventually became a lesbian mecca endures.
Cliff Top Sessions 1 (editor) - feature length music documentarty set in a cliff top cottage
BBC 2 - Mountain Gorilla (Sound and Second Unit Camera).
Based between Uganda and Rwanda over the course of a year. Embedded within the communities surrounding the forests where the Gorillas live, and working with the scientists and conservationists who protect them.
BBC 1- Comic Relief (Sound).
Numerous short appeal films covering the work of leading comic relief supported UK and International charities. Sensitive testimonial interviews and working with celebrity presenters with short turnaround.
BBC 1- African Hospital a Comic Relief Feature Documentary with Billy Connolly (Sound and Second Unit Camera).
Based in Somaliland looking at the work Comic Relief support in the war ravaged country. Second unit camera work was based in a refugee camp and a hospital filming child birth.
BBC 2 - Elephant Diaries 5-part series (Sound).
Based in Kenya following the remarkable Elephant rehabilitation work of the David Scheldrick Wildlife Trust. Working with Presenters Michaela Strachan and Jonathan Scott.
BBC 2 - Wild Mallorca (Sound).
BBC 2- Wild Provence (Sound).
Channel 4 (Camera/AP)
News feature behind the fire strike. Embedded during the strike in a London fire station.
Channel 4 - My Foetus (Camera).
Documentary examining the status quo in the abortion debate. Involved under cover filming set ups.
Animal Planet (Tigress Productions) - Jane Goodall’s State of the Great Ape. (Camera).
Sequence work filmed on location in Washington DC Zoo and New York. Interviews/Laboratory filming and Wildlife.
Animal Planet (Tigress Productions) - Born Different (Camera).
The science of mutation, filming in the UK, USA and Taiwan.
National Geographic and PBS (Tigress Productions) - Africa (Camera).
Sequence work in Kenya.
BBC 1 - Africa (Camera).
Sequence work in Kenya.
Kodak Sponsored Camerawoman
Sponsored by Kodak for a personal film project in Kenya.
France 3 (3 x 1 hours) Wildlife of Provence (Trainee Camera).
On location for a year as a camera apprentice.
PBS (Icon Films) Journey into Amazonia (field Assistant).
Based in the Amazon for six months. Working with cameramen, the producer, and set building.
Icon Films (Production Coordinator)
One year contract coordinating productions from the Bristol office, India, Bhutan and the Amazon.
Crow Film and TV (Edit Assistant)
The Big Swap (Location Manager)
British indie feature film.
Ruth Rendell mysteries (Location Assistant)
MUSIC VIDEOS - (DOP/Editor)
Martha Tilston
Music video - Stories and Nomad Blood.
Cliff Top Collective
Two feature length music documentaries.
Boe Huntress
Music Video – Red Thread, Narcissist and Slo.
Susie Roe and Ayla Schaeffer
Filming live shows.