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Chris Hunt (Producer, Managing Director)
Chris Hunt founded Iambic Productions in 1988 and it has grown into one of the country’s most successful and respected independent production companies in the field of arts and entertainment programmes in the UK. Born in 1954 in Bristol, UK, Hunt entered the television industry as a music and arts producer for the BBC and ITV. For 3 years, he produced and directed Britain's premier arts television series ‘The South Bank Show’, and afterwards delivered more South Bank Shows than any other independent. All his films since 1991 have won or been nominated for awards, contributing to his current total of over 50. Hunt has been also Chief Executive of the listed TV production and distribution group DCD Media plc since its flotation on the AIM market in 1999. In this role he oversaw a long series of acquisitions including Iambic Productions in 2000 and has supervised the group’s transformation from a dot-com company to one of Europe's largest independent producers and distributors of factual, entertainment, drama, music and arts programming for television, DVD and new media.
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Steve Cole (Director)
In his thirteen years as director and producer, Steve Cole has amassed a wealth of directing experience ranging through arts, music, history, profiles, fly-on-the-wall, live studio, current affairs, investigative journalism and even news. Since he joined Iambic in 1999, Cole directed a number of award-winning Iambic programmes including ‘Maria Callas, Living and Dying for Art and Love’ (BBC2/4), ‘The Michael Jackson Story’(ITV), ‘Greta Garbo – A Lone Star’(ITV), ‘Wallace and Gromit Go Chicken’(BBC1), thus contributing to make Iambic Productions a high profile leader in its field. He was also co-director of ‘The Winner Takes It All’ for ITV, the BAFTA-nominated profile of Swedish supergroup ABBA.
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