Ian Lewis - Producer/director and writer Career History Ian Lewis entered the industry as an assistant director working on television drama with Austrian Television in Vienna. He then worked in a number of staff positions in Visnews (now Reuters Television) and Thames Television, gaining a wide knowledge of all types of programme making at every level. He has been a producer-director and writer since 1982, and has made over 350 program¬mes, filming all over the world: broadcast drama and documentary, as well as training and corporate work for a range of blue-chip clients. Awards for his work have been collected at the Chicago Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, and the IVCA in London. His work has been broadcast on all the UK’s major terrestrial and several digital channels. Productions include a major period drama series The Chef’s Apprentice, where he produced and directed; and the worldwide success Mona the Vampire, a 65 x half-hour animation series, which he developed for television, also writing several scripts for the series. He has also directed Shakespeare for the stage, and written a number of books: Get Down on the Internet (Bloomsbury) and How to Conquer the Internet (Oxford University Press) for children, and Guerrilla TV low budget programme making (Focal Press) and Ghosthunter making great short feature films, also for Focal Press. He was executive producer on the feature film, Plato’s Breaking Point, and in 2007 wrote and directed a full-length feature film, Children of the Lake. |
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