Pod Pitches/Filmmakers Selected for Britdoc Passes

We got so many great pitches over the past month and a half. Thanks so much to everyone who submitted. We’re very pleased to announce that BRITDOC Passes were offered to the following filmmakers, for the following pitches:


Anna Magee - Donor Dad
As many sperm donor children enter their 20s and 30s, with little information about the man that created them, and whose DNA they carry, they’re searching for answers about their donors; their biology, their paternity. The growing on line global community of forums and blogs (including one ‘Confessions of Cryokid) is stark evidence of this. This pod will tell this story through one key character.

Tristan Anderson - Girls on Bikes
Cycle Couriering is a male dominated industry, hard living, fast paced, life-threatening employment. But how do female cycle couriers fit into such an extreme male environment. In Girls On Bikes we will follow Tammy as she works and plays within a world dominated by testosterone sweaty males.

Robert Eagle - Heroin and the New Silk Road
This pod will take us to the dark, crumbling prisons of Kazakhstan, where we’ll meet the merchants of the New Silk Road: heroin traffickers. With unparalleled access to the prison and the officers carrying out drug busts, we’ll dive into the underworld of drug smuggling in Central Asia that provides heroin for the UK market (as 90% of Britain’s heroin comes from Central Asia) and bankrolls terrorist cells at the source in Afghanistan.

James Newton - Skin Camouflage
'Skin camouflage' is a group run by the Red Cross that helps people with scars & disfiguring skin conditions to teach them how to apply specialist cover creams which offer a simple route to improved confidence and independence. We’ll hear the moving stories people who have been shown how to match the skin camouflage creams to there skin-tones and how to apply them.

Michelle Comber - The Hug a Druggie Judge
We’re locking up more people than ever before, and more than any other country in Europe. With our prisons bursting at the seams and suspicions that jail only produces better criminals, we need an alternative.This pod will tackle the inexact science of justice through the lives of three people involved in alternatives to prison.


Close Runners Up:

Dami Akinnusi - Pool People
A lot of people in this generation are not opting for traditional career opportunities. Freelancers all over the world utilize the summer months as a time to discover and create. This pod looks into a growing trend or entrepreneurs creating their own destinies as well as working hours.


Chaz Golding - If It’s Broke Don’t Try To Fix It
In the current age of disposable culture, the repair shop with its unique and highly skilled occupants has become almost extinct. This pod plans to profile a handful of the remaining repair shops dotted around the country and the often, eccentric owners. From vacuum cleaners to cobblers we will shed light on a forgotten facet of British culture and ask is it time to turn this trend around?