Fiona O’Doherty

Fiona O’Doherty

Producer

After successfully completing a National Diploma in Film at DLCAD (`Ireland), Fiona briefly worked in Feature Film Production with Allarts in Holland.  Working with Peter Greenaway on “Man, Music & Mozart” and “Prospero’s Books”, before she was awarded the Nat Cohen Memorial Scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London where she completed a MA (RCA) in Film Production.  Thereafter, she worked for several large independent television companies and joined Café Productions in 1995 as Company Unit Manager.

In 1997 she took over as acting Head of Production at Principal Media Group.  Principal Media Group comprised of Principal Films (Factual) Principal Pictures (Features) and Principal Large Format (IMAX).

Fiona returned to the freelance market in 1999 as a production consultant and line producer for high-end documentary and co-productions. She joined director Ben Lewis on the formation of Bergmann Pictures Ltd (now BLTV) in 2002.  Her role within the company is diverse and challenging, from overseeing the running of the Company, raising development and production finance to Producing or Line Producing the production slate.  She continues to  produce and Executive Produce films for directors, outside BLTV, and she project manages
for artists outside the realms of broadcast television.

Viva Van Loock
Associate Producer

Viva Van Loock is an experienced AP who has worked on a range of documentaries from history and current affairs to arts.  She worked with Ben on his feature length documentary about the contemporary art boom ‘Brave New Art World’ for the BBC, Arte/ZDF and a further ten international broadcasters.  She helped find and contact inerviewees for the programme, carry out background and ongoing research into the art market and organized shoots across the globe including the USA, China, the Middle East and Europe.

Before moving to BLTV Viva worked at Juniper Productions where she developed and worked as an AP on the Prix Europa nominated Dispatches series ‘Immigration: the Inconvenient Truth’, with Rageh Omaar.  Whilst at Juniper she also Assistant Produced Antony Thomas’s the Qur’an (also nominated for a Prix Europa).

Viva has also worked at Blakeway Productions on a diverse range of projects including Panorama:  ‘How to Poison a Spy’ – an investigation into the death of Alexander Litvinenko, ‘Adventures for boys: John Buchan’ and ‘God is Green’, a documentary examining the role of religion in global warming.  She also worked as an Assistant Producer for ‘Clash of Worlds’, a three-part history examining Britain’s interaction with the Islamic World before assisting in the re-editing of Niall Ferguson’s ‘The War of the World’ for PBS.
Guy Nisbett

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