Mr Max: a Director and Producer based in London

Programmes

I have directed documentary and factual TV for over 15 years. My films have been broadcast in the UK and worldwide on the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, National Geographic, MTV, Discovery, the Smithsonian Channel, and PBS. Watch some short clips below.

Restoring Our Reefs

Producer / Director

1 x 60 PBS

PBS. In Season 3 of Changing Planet Dr. M. Sanjayan visits the Maldives to take an in-depth look at coral reefs and the urgent efforts to help them survive climate change.

Our Changing Planet - Season 2

Producer / Director

2 x 60 min BBC One

BBC. In the second season of this 7-year project, the Natural History Unit's top presenters chart the fight to save the planet’s endangered ecosystems. In the Maldives Steve Backshall experiences an extraordinary way to use the sounds of the ocean to restore coral reefs.

Exec. Rosemary Edwards

Rise of the Bolsonaros

Edit Director

1 x 115mins PBS

PBS. This feature length documentary about the controversial president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, tells the story of his extraordinary rise from relative obscurity to the ultimate seat of South American power.

Exec. Emily Lawson Comm. Ed Diana El-Osta

Changing Planet - Australia

Producer / Director

2 x 60 min PBS

PBS/ BBC. Dr M Sanjayan joins the remotest community in Australia in search of answers to climate change that are rooted in both Indigenous wisdom and in cutting-edge science.

Commissioner Diana El-Osta

Our Changing Planet - Season 1

Producer / Director

2 x 60 min BBC One

The BBC's most ambitious environmental series to date: a 7-year global health check from the Arctic to the Amazon. Presenters join scientists and conservationists working in six of Earth’s bellwether habitats as key species adapt to change.

Exec Rosemary Edwards SP Charlotte Jones

China's Greatest Treasures

Series Director

6 x 30 min BBC / CCTV

BBC. I directed this six-part art history adventure series in China presented by Daily Telegraph chief art critic Alastair Sooke.

Exec. Charlotte Jones

Drain the Oceans - Secrets of the Armada

Director

Series 2 National Geographic

National Geographic. The Secrets of the Spanish Armada revealed from wrecks on both sides of the Atlantic from Newfoundland to the coast of Ireland.

Exec. Phil Craig

Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast

Producer/ Director

12 x 60 Channel 4

Channel 4. I was producer/director on four "Food Fight Campaign" episodes in Series 6. In this clip Jamie and Jimmy present their first ever vegan menu to encourage everyone to try a more plant-based diet.

Exec. Sam Beddoes

Fukushima: Nature in the Dangerzone

Director

1 x 60 Discovery / UKTV / SBS

Discovery. Filmed inside Fukushima Radiation Exclusion Zone scientific research into on-going impact of 2011 nuclear disaster on wildlife and former residents.

Exec Paul Wooding

Flying Across Britain With Arthur Williams

Producer / Director

4 x 60 Channel 4 / Reef TV

Channel 4. Arthur Williams, a former Royal Marine turned pilot, offers his unique aerial perspective on the airfields that have shaped Britain's landscape and history.

Japan's Northern Wilderness - Monkeys

Series Producer / Director

2 x 30 mins BBC

BBC. Newly married couple naturalist Steve Backshall and double Olympic gold medallist Helen Glover go on an exhilarating adventure through Japan's northern highlands. They discover ancient pilgrimage routes, a volcanic landscape and unique wildlife in Tohoku - a region of outstanding natural beauty seemingly left behind by time.

Exec. Charlotte Jones

Japan's Northern Wilderness - Snowshoe Walk

Series Director

2 x 30, 1 x 60 BBC

BBC. Steve Backshall and Helen Glover delight in the fire and ice of Japan's Alps.

Intercity125: The Train That Saved Britain's Railways

Producer / Director

2 x 60 min Channel 5 / Windfall Films

Channel 5. Chris Tarrant narrates a definitive social history of this iconic feat of British engineering.

Exec. Fred Hepburn

China: Treasures of the Jade Empire

Writer / Director

1 x 60 min Channel 4 / Lion TV

Channel 4 / Arte / Smithsonian / JSBC. The Han emperors led sophisticated, opulent lives and were buried with stunning treasure in magnificent mausoleums. Now archaeologists are using cutting-edge technology to look inside these tombs for the first time, revealing a second Terracotta Army.

Exec. Bill Locke

The Story of Rice

Producer / Director

1 x 60 min BBC

BBC Earth. Chef Rachel Allen discovers the sometimes surprising ways that rice is key to the culture, history and longevity of the Japanese people.

Exec. Charlotte Jones

The Plane Crash

Producer / Director

1 x 75, 1 x 90 min Channel 4 / Dragonfly

Channel 4 / Discovery / Pro7. An international team of scientists, experts and elite pilots deliberately crash land a 170-seat Boeing 727 passenger jet to study the mechanics of a plane crash. 'extraordinary television -- mesmerising and terrifying' - The Guardian. Peaking at 4 million viewers - double the slot average. 3 Top10 #hashtags Twitter UK plus No 2 # in the World during broadcast.

Execs. Simon Dickson & Sanjay Singhal

American Experience: America's Secret D-Day Disaster

Writer / Director

1 x 60 min Smithsonian / PBS

The Smithsonian Channel. For the 70th anniversary of D-Day and shown in the prestigious American Experience strand on PBS America. Untangling the web of secrecy and bitterness around the exercise that claimed more American lives than the attack on Utah Beach itself.

Exec. Charles Thompson

Stonehenge Boat

Writer / Director

1 x 60 mins Discovery / Darlow Smithson

Discovery Channel. Experimental Archaeology film answering how could Neolithic man move 90 multi-ton stones 200 miles across land and sea to the ancient stone circle that has stood for over 4500 years?

Exec. Tom Adams, Julian Ware

How Will the World End?

Writer / Director

1 x 60 mins Discovery / Pioneer Productions

Discovery Channel. One-hour special presented by Samuel L Jackson examining five natural cataclysms that threaten our world. Highest rating show in the first series of the Curiosity strand.

Exec. Stuart Carter; SP Bob Strange & Yavar Abbas

Richard Hammond's Science of Stupid

Writer / Producer

13 x 30 mins National Geographic / IWC Media

National Geographic. Richard Hammond explains the science behind the failure and humiliation of misguided stunts from around the world.

Exec. Hamish Barbour; SP Dominic Bowles

When Kids Kill: Date With Death

Producer / Director

6 x 60 mins Channel 5 / Spun Gold

Channel 5. Two women a week in England and Wales are killed by a partner or ex-partner. Can the murder of 15-year-old Becca Aylward by 16-year-old Joshua Davies help explain how controlling behaviour can lead to violence and death even in teenage relationships?

Exec. Fintan Maguire

When Kids Kill: Schoolboy Slayer

Producer / Director

6 x 60 min Channel 5 / Spun Gold

Channel 5. At a time when 4 in 10 teachers have been attacked in their classroom in England and Wales, what can the the murder of Ann Maguire by William Cornick tell us about mental health and safety in schools?

Exec. Fintan Maguire

Vietnam Firefight

Writer / Producer / Director

1 x 60 mins Channel 5 / Windfall Films

National Geographic / Smithsonian Network / FIVE. Two dramatic rescues 40 years apart. In Vietnam a helicopter pilot was twice as likely to be killed in combat as an ordinary soldier. Episode 1. Vietnam Firefight. The story of one of the most epic rescue missions of the entire war continues to accumulate over 480 000 views on YouTube.

Exec. David Dugan

Ancient X Files

Producer / Director

3 x 60 mins National Geographic / Wag TV

National Geographic. The science and history behind well known classical and mediaeval enigmas. Is this the Minotaur's Labyrinth? Lead director setting up the style and format for the first series of 3 hours to be recommissioned in Series 2 as 13 parts.

Exec. Martin Durkin; SP Jon Stephens

Taliban Gambit

Writer / Producer / Director

1 x 60 mins Channel 5 / Windfall Films

National Geographic / Smithsonian Network / FIVE. Two dramatic rescues 40 years apart. In the mountains of the Hindu Kush, the biggest Combat Search & Rescue operation since Vietnam is taking place. Two helicopter crews must pluck a wounded Navy SEAL from under the noses of the Taliban.

Exec. David Dugan

Ultimate Sports Day

Lead Producer / Director

12 x 30 min BBC / The Foundation

CBBC / BBC2. Sports stars Christian Malcolm, Barry McGuigan, Dean Macey and Sinead Kerr encourage young athletes from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in CBBC's landmark sports series. Hosted by Newsround's Ore Oduba.

Exec. Steven Andrew