This course is led in Scotland by George Cathro, who has worked in broadcast television over 35 years as a Director, Producer, Cameraperson, Edit Producer and most recently as a Shooting PD. He is a BAFTA and RTS winning director and have made programmes for nearly all UK broadcasters. As a professional trainer for over 12 years, George has delivered CPD courses, lecturing and mentoring for students from Stirling University, Napier University, ECA, UWS, Screen NETS and Creative Scotland.
He has spent many hours in the edit working with other shooters' rushes and is accustomed to the joys and the pain that can bring. His approach will endeavour to make your rushes more joyous in the edit and give you the skills to make you more confident shooters and ultimately more employable. George is an experienced and confident shooter and director. Equally at home working with crew, DOP’s and sound and in the edit suite as an edit producer, he has filmed all over the USA, Russia, Africa, India, South America and Europe.
George has also produced and directed over 50 single docs (BBC1, BBC2, BBC4, C4, Five, BBC Scotland + STV), series produced 10 series for (BBC2, BBC Scotland + STV) and edit produced 3 network series (BBC1 + BBC2). This Farming Life which the
series produced for BBC2 won the Best Factual Series at the 2016 Scottish BAFTAs. He directed Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas in 2019 (15 eps shot in 7 days) which won the 2020 RTS Scotland award for best daytime series.
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