Production | Victoria Musguin: Producer & Director

STEPHEN: THE MURDER THAT CHANGED A NATION

Broadcaster: BBC One (3 x 60 mins)
Production Company: On The Corner Films
Director: James Rogan
Executive Producer: James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia
Commissioner: Danny Horan
Role: Development Exec & Series Producer

A landmark three-part documentary, executive produced by the critically-acclaimed filmmakers of AMY & SENNA, plunging viewers into the story of Britain’s most notorious racist murder 25 years after it happened.

The series has now been written into the British National Curriculum, as part of the GCSE Citizenship studies.

Winner of the Best Documentary Series at
The Grierson Awards 2018.

Winner of the Best Historical Documentary at
The Grierson Awards 2018.

Winner of the Best Documentary Series at
the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2019.

Nominated for the Best Director award at
the BAFTA Craft Awards 2019.

Winner of the Diversity in Factual Production
at the Screen Nation TV & Film Awards 2019.

Winner of the Best Documentary Series
at the Televisual Bulldog Awards 2019.

Nominated for the Best Documentary Programme
at the Edinburgh TV Festival Awards 2019.

The Times
“A landmark documentary”

The Telegraph
“Devastating, an unforgiving takedown of institutional racism”

The Guardian
“Chilling, profound and important”

The Evening Standard
“Tragic, visceral and shocking. Essential viewing this week — and it might yet become part of how this unending story develops further.”

The Daily Mail
“Poignant”

LOVE & HATE CRIME: DOUBLE LIVES

Broadcaster: BBC Three & Discovery ID (3 x 60 mins)
Production Company: Top Hat Productions
Director: Ben Steele
Editor: Alexander Fry
Executive Producer: Darren Kemp
Commissioner: Jamie Balment & Clare Sillery
Role: Development Producer & Producer

A young man is led into court and sentenced to life for the savage murder of the woman he loved. The camera follows him into prison, where he starts to explain his story and how he reacted with blind rage when he found out a secret his girlfriend was holding from him. But is he telling the truth, and what really happened? Slowly his story unravels as more and more information is found out about him.

Winner of the Best Factual Programme Award at the
Broadcast Digital Awards 2018.

Nominated for the Best Documentary Series at
The Grierson Awards 2018.

Nominated for the Best Documentary Series at
the Royal Television Society Awards 2019.

Broadcast Magazine

In a bumper year for American crime docs, this series edged out the competition thanks to its deep exploration of single narratives. It was a masterclass in beautiful and thought-provoking film-making.

Top Hat’s series was journalistically watertight and accurate, but built upon present-tense observational filming, which helped it play out like a drama in terms of plot twists and surprises.

ELLE
“The 12 New Documentaries You’ll Be Binge-Watching This Autumn
If you were a fan of Making A Murderer and Blackfish, you’re going to be addicted to these new original documentaries.

This three-apart series delves into the rife world of hate crimes in the US, looking at the dangers that face those who are victimised, and the polarised opinions among those who commit vicious hate crimes.”

TV Fanatic
“There are so many nuances to love and hate and everything in between, and the series does a good job examining what it means to be a human being in this world at this very moment.”

LOVE & HATE CRIME: MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI

Broadcaster: BBC Three & Discovery ID (3 x 60 mins)
Production Company: Top Hat Productions
Director: Ben Steele
Editor: Alexander Fry
Executive Producer: Darren Kemp
Commissioner: Jamie Balment & Clare Sillery
Role: Development Producer & Producer

When a black man is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi, an FBI investigation uncovers a campaign of attacks by local white kids. But what was the true role of one of the 18-year-old girls prosecuted for his murder?

Winner of the Best Factual Programme Award at the
Broadcast Digital Awards 2018.

Nominated for the Best Documentary Series at
The Grierson Awards 2018.

Nominated for the Best Documentary Series at
the Royal Television Society Awards 2019.

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CONVICTION: MURDER AT THE STATION

Broadcaster: BBC Two (2 x 60 mins)
Production Company: Raw TV
Director: James Newton
Editor: Gregor Lyon
Executive Producer: Richard Bond
Commissioner: Clare Sillery
Role: Development Producer & Producer

A two-part BBC Two documentary series following Louise Shorter of Inside Justice, as she investigates the circumstances around an alleged miscarriage of justice in the UK.

The Telegraph
“It made for edge-of-seat television, pulling us on with all the twists and turns of a story that might yet turn out to be stranger than fiction.”

The Times
“With gentle but diligent questioning, investigator Louise Shorter took Kearney’s calls from prison, retraced his alleged movements on the night and walked down some pretty mean housing estates.
I am enthralled.”

The I
“Thought provoking documentary. Filmed beautifully, the documentary slowly winds you in”

The Guardian
“Sometimes with investigative shows it can feel as if a narrative structure has been imposed in hindsight, that information is being withheld from the viewer for the sake of suspense. Not in this case. It really did seem as if we were along for the ride.”

THE CURSE OF GOLD

Feature Documentary
Production Company: Dartmouth Films
Director: Jemma Gander
Executive Producer: Christo Hird
Role: Shooting AP

A feature documentary about the establishment of the Fair Trade gold industry.

BREAKING THE TABOO: THE POPULATION DEBATE

Feature Documentary
Production Company: Sundog Pictures
Executive Producer: Sam Branson
Role: Assistant Producer

With 10 billion people due on planet Earth by 2050, this feature documentary asks the tough questions about the worlds population, that nobody seems to be asking.

THE MODERN BRITISH SLAVE TRADE

Broadcaster: Channel 4 – Cutting Edge (1x 60 mins)
Production Company: Arrow Media
Executive Producer: John Smithson
Role: Development & Assistant Producer

A Channel 4 Cutting Edge examining the forced labour slave trade operating in the UK, through the eyes of the National Crime Agency, Gangmasters Licensing Authority, the police and the victims support unit within the Salvation Army.

JUMBO: THE PLANE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Broadcaster: Smithsonian Channel (120 mins), Channel 7 (120 mins), Discovery Canada (60 mins) and BBC 2 (60 mins)
Production Company: Arrow Media
Director: Chris Spencer
Executive Producer: Tom Brisley
Role: Assistant Producer

A high budget drama-doc about the history of the Jumbo Jet with access to the Boeing factory in Seattle, the original Jumbo engineering team, Lufthansa and actor/747 first officer, John Travolta.

INSIDE WACO

Broadcaster: Discovery and Investigation Discovery (1 x 60 mins)
Production Company: Arrow Media
Director: Chris Martin
Executive Producer: Tom Brisley
Role: Assistant Producer

Retelling the events of the 1993 Waco siege through interviews with the survivors of the tragedy, as well as the FBI, ATF and police who were negotiating with the Branch Davidian’s. Featuring never before heard FBI negotiation tapes.

JFK LOST TAPES

Broadcaster: Discovery Channel (1 x 60 mins)
Production Company: Arrow Media
Director: Chris Martin
Executive Producer: Tom Brisley
Role: Assistant Producer

A real-time account of the day JFK was assassinated retold through previously unheard audio recordings from the day.

THE 9/11 LOST TAPES: CHAOS IN THE SKY

Broadcaster: Channel 4 and Discovery US (1 x 60 mins)
Production Company: Arrow Media
Director: Chris Martin
Executive Producer: Tom Brisley
Role: Researcher

A quick turn-around documentary using live recordings to provide a real-time account of the military and FAA’s response to the events of 9/11.

TERROR IN THE SKIES

Broadcaster: Channel 4 and Smithsonian (3 x 60mins)
Production Company: Arrow Media
Role: Assistant Producer

Aeronautical engineer Brendan Walker asks whether modern flying is too technologically complex to be completely safe?

WORLDS BUSIEST

Broadcaster: Channel 5 and Discovery Destination (4 x 60 mins)
Production Company: Arrow Media
Role: Senior Researcher

A four-part series about some of the world’s busiest places – including the San Ysidro US/Mexico border crossing and Shinjuku train station in Tokyo.

HOW SEX WORKS

Broadcaster: BBC Three and National Geographic (3 x 60 mins)
Production Company: Pioneer Productions
Role: Casting Researcher

A three-part obs-doc/CGI series exploring the science of desire and attraction.

MISSION TO LARS

Feature Documentary
Broadcaster: Film4
Distributor: Picture House Docs and Dogwoof
Production Company: Spicer and Moore
Role: Assistant Producer

A feature documentary following the Spicer family as they attempt to take their learning disabled brother across the globe to meet his life-long idol, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich.

The film had an international cinema & DVD release by Picture House Docs and DogWoof and is now on sale on Amazon Video – Watch on Amazon. Press included Empire, The Guardian, The Sun & Radio 4.

The Sun

The Guardian

Empire

A DIFFERENT FACE

Short film (1 x 15 mins)
Role: Director/Producer

A self-funded film about the first girl from Afghanistan to go to Oxford University. The film includes footage shot by the contributor in her hometown of Kabul at a time when cameras were still dangerous to use in Afghanistan.