kirsty Mitchell

Observational Documentary, Single. Following nine celebrities as they trek 100km across the Kaisut Desert in Northern Kenya, raising money for Comic Relief. Supervising and managing two Directors and one camera crew on location. Overseeing edit in UK. Audience figures of 5.2million and raised £2million for Comic Relief.

Working closely with the Executive Producer to develop ideas for a single documentary looking at talented families. Role involved researching and casting families and selling potential storylines to Channel 4. Broadcast in 2012 named ‘Irish Dancing Triplets’.

Observational Documentary series. Following the City of London Police in their fight against ‘boiler room’ fraud. Role included filming armed police raids, reading and recording legal statements. Camera operator.

Directing two camera ops and self shooting on Mt Everest. Following stories as they unfolded and producing powerful story arcs in this obdoc Series, featuring amateur climbers with a summit dream. Winner of the Special Jury Prize for innovation and technical achievement in the 2009 RTS West of England awards

Access based, formatted Factual Entertainment series. Assessing contributors quickly., filming in hospitals and operating theatres. Writing humorous yet respectful commentary and scripts for the edit. Following the strange and bizarre injuries that come into Accident and Emergency departments.

ObDoc series. Setting up locations and contributors, following stories and producing story arcs all on location, as economist Conor Woodman attempts to trade his way around the world, buying and selling items including Camels in Sudan and Jade in china.

Formatted Adventure series. Following high achieving British women as they test their skills in the last male dominated industries around the world. This episode followed Antelope cullers in South Africa.

Worldwide Broadcast on Discovery networks Self Shooting and directing 2 x camera operators on location on Mt Everst (North face in Tibet). Edit producing, Script / commentary writing for episode 6. Documentary series following amateur climbers from around the world on a commercial expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest.

Self Shooting, Casting, Producing storylines on location, reporting to the Episode Director and Series Producer. Formatted Adventure series. Presenter Ben Fogle takes 5 people on a journey to the most inhospitable environments on earth. Filmed in the Libyan Sahara, Guyanese Rainforest and Peruvian Andes. Head of casting for season2

Location Producing, location scouting Kenya. UK casting. Identifying both animal and human stories on location in Northern Kenya. Series followed a group of apprentices from the UK as they build a wildlife conservancy in Africa. 15 ep series.

Camera operator, story producer. Reality Format. Two teams of castaways’ battle to build the best community on opposing desert islands in a bid to attract more residents. Filmed over 5 months on location in the South Pacific.

Nationwide Casting. Location scouting. Filming and sound recording on Location in the UK and France.

Teaching UK casting procedures to US staff, adapting British format for US broadcaster. Casting calls, Shooting and editing casting tapes. Assistant Producer on Location.

Casting. Location researcher. Shooting and editing casting tapes. Location Assistant Producer.