SERIES EDITOR
Molly-Mae: Behind It All
6 x 40" Amazon Prime
Starts 17th Jan '25
SHOWRUNNER
DIRECTOR
The Real Galácticos
6 x 1' / ESPN 30 for 30 / Autumn '25
"Clare is a talented film-maker with so many positive qualities that it is difficult to list them all. She is able to use her vast experience and range of talents to deftly lead a team with a lightness of touch even when the going gets tough. She is a great collaborator, a grown up in the room and entirely trustworthy to deliver complicated projects."
Ben Turner, Co-Founder, Fulwell73
SHOWRUNNER
Save Our Squad with David Beckham
4 x 1' / Disney+ / November '22
"Save Our Squad was very close to home and personal for all of us, and David loved working with Clare and the team to make it happen. She always has a plan and it's clear she cares deeply about the project, the boys and their families."
Nicola Howson, Director, David Beckham Ventures
ABOUT ME
My focus is high-end documentaries and factual TV. My work has won BAFTA, Grierson and RTS awards.
I love discovering other people’s desires and fears, whether it was the striking miners of my youth near Barnsley, the stories my Mum told me as a GP and psycho-sexual councillor or those of the brave contributors I’ve worked with over the years.
I’m equally comfortable directing multi-camera set ups and small intimate crews as I am producing series or working with commissioners. I have an extensive book of crew contacts and am fortunate to work with teams who help me elevate the details in the world around us to the level they deserve.
My career has given me an understanding of how to manage people and the process of making television, to make sure that we’re all on the same page at the right time. From talent to contributors, crew and commissioners, bringing people together to shape great stories is a constant passion.
"Clare works tirelessly in pursuit of the best possible version of stories, always happy to take notes and work together on finding the right path, her work on Save our Squad helped steer the project towards success."
Sean Doyle, Director of Original Production for Unscripted Entertainment, Disney+
"I love working with Clare. She's calm, collected and makes emotional shoots run like clockwork."
Davina McCall
"Clare has a natural flair for capturing beautifully shot actuality - and is brilliant at building trust with contributors of all ages and backgrounds. Her work on Long Lost Family over many years helped the series to become and remain ITV’s biggest factual show. Clare has the breadth of skills to lead any production."
Leanne Klein, MD, Wall to Wall and Twenty Twenty
EXAMPLE CREDITS
Series Editor
Molly-Mae: Behind It All
Workerbee/Navybee
Showrunner / Director
The Real Galacticos
Fullwell73 / Studio 99
Showrunner / Director
Save Our Squad with David Beckham / Disney+
Series Director / Series Producer
Long Lost Family Series 9 - 11 / ITV (BAFTA Nominated, Grierson Highly Commended)
Edit Producer
Make or Break / Apple
Senior Producer
The Kanneh-Masons: Young, Gifted and Classical / BBC Four
Producer / Director
Long Lost Family Series 2 -7 / ITV (BAFTA Winner, RTS Winner)
Transformation Street / ITV
First Dates / Channel Four
The Space Shuttles Last Flight / Channel Four
My Poly Love / Sky Living
Art of Survival / Sky Arts
Art Race / Sky Arts
Sport Portraits / BBC One
Faith to Faith / Al Jazeera
The Big Silence / BBC Two
Extraordinary Weddings / ITV
Show Runner
Save Our Squad with David Beckham, Disney+
This is a series I'm super proud of. Lots of kids and families, all on a mission to be better players and people - and a large team behind the camera too. I brought everyone together by focussing on effective ways of working that maximised David's time and created the intimacy and aesthetics that made this a premium Disney+ commission.
Series Director
Long Lost Family, Series x, ITV 1
Long Lost Family gave me a rare opportunity to craft my skills as a director of a prime time factual series, whilst also learning how to evolve a factual format to keep it fresh. Across 7 series I worked in PD, Director, Series Producer and Series Editor roles and loved working with wonderful teams to do justice to the stories of contributors who had spent their lives wondering what might have happened to their long lost families.
Director
Transformation Street, ITV 1
This multi-camera rig series, set in a Harley Street gender reassignment clinic, gave me the creative space to craft individual stories. By encouraging our contributors to talk about their experiences in ways even they had sometimes not considered, we revealed important ideas that fuelled the gender debate in positive ways.
Producer
Space Shuttle's Last Flight, Channel 4 & The Smithsonian
In this archive-heavy 90 minute feature doc, the main challenge was to turn a scientific story, that had already been recounted many times, into an emotional, fresh look at a moment in the history of space flight. By taking time to understand the astronauts' lives and motivations I was able to find new details in this well told tale that helped the film continue today on Amazon Prime.