Before being in the creative partnership running Indefinite Films with Producer Kate Cook. Bruce was one of the countries leading directors. Bruce is one of the country’s leading drama directors with BAFTA, RTS and EMMY generated by the films he makes. He tends to tackle subject matter where the characters at the centre of the story tend to be morally ambiguous and challenging.
His first movie Leave to Remain was about a boy compelled to lie to get his British status in the topical Leave to Remain that won awards globally and premiered at the London Film Festival and had a soundtrack by Alt J.
Murdered by my Father won Adeel Akhtar his BAFTA for leading male – the first time a non-white actor had won in this category. Bruce cast a young John Boyega in My Murder which won best single film and soundtrack.
Bruce directed Maxine Peake as a campaigner to get justice for the 96 killed at Hillsborough. His outstanding but unsettling Born to Kill series about a teenage psychopath saw his lead Jack Rowan voted in the Best Male lead at the BAFTA’s – the youngest ever. He also directed one of the most talked about series BBC1’s Doctor Foster season 1 for which Suranne Jones won best female lead. In 2012 he was Voted Broadcast magazine’s top 10 Mover and Shaker as one of the United Kingdom’s most exciting and successful documentary and drama Directors.
His 9/11 film Flight 93 was Emmy nominated and his documentary series about the Afghan conflict OUR WAR won a BAFTA.
OUR WORLD WAR written by a young Joe Barton won a Grierson award for best series.
Bruce directed Kenneth Branagh and Juliet Stevenson in the acclaimed series TEN DAYS TO WAR about the invasion of Iraq. BRINKS MAT: THE GREATEST HEIST was nominated for a BAFTA and SAS: IRANIAN EMBASSY SEIGE won the Grierson Award for the Best Historical Documentary in 2003.
Bruce directed Jack Thorne and Genevieve Barr’s disability film THEN BARBARA MET ALAN for BBC/Netflix. Most recently he directed the feature film Black Cab – a ghost story starring Nick Frost and Synovve Karlson.
The kinds of projects we are looking for are fact based or socially relevant series or singles. Contemporary in themes or time frame – not interested in Period or sci-fi but interested in Black Mirror style material that makes you think. Having a thriller engine or a comedic darkness also useful. Series and singles. International or UK. Recent projects we would have loved to have made were Adolescence, Toxic Town and White Lotus or Dying For Sex.
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