Coming soon from PACHA FILMS
Executive Producer : Angus Macqueen, Ronachan Films
MAX libera el primer avance de ‘Masacre de los Mormones’, serie basada en el ataque a los LeBarón
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WHOLE TEAM NAMED AND UNNAMED who made or took part in this film shot totally inside RUSSIA with all the risks that entailed.
and those here: Paul Mitchell, Monica Garnsey, Guy Creasey and those at the BBC who took the risks and made it possible: in particular Marc Perkins and Mustafa Khalili.
Congratualtions on the RTS recognition to all those NAMED AND UNNAMED who took the huge risks to be involved in this film shot INSIDE Russia after the invasion of February 2022.
And to the team outside: Monica and Paul, Marc and Mus, Guy, Tania and Masha….and many others.
Streaming now on BBC iplayer
WINNER OF THE THE 2023 DIG FESTIVAL DOCUMENTARY AWARD, MODENA, ITALY.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WHOLE TEAM – PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO TOOK THE RISK OF FILMING INSIDE RUSSIA. THIS AWARD IS FOR THEM.
Feature Documentary covering the stories of normal Russians in the period since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, from all sides, those supporting, those in opposition and those wanting to ignore.
Shown on YouTube, and by broadcasters around the World.
We’re pleased to announce that Maradona ’94: The Fall is now streaming worldwide on DAZN
Director: Angus Macqueen
Producers: Roxana Portase and Robert Macqueen
Executive Producer: Grant Best
Editor: Matt Lowe
Music: Javier Weyler
This collection of award-winning documentaries presents a vibrant, challenging and varied picture of Russia, spanning the optimistic days of Glasnost and the chaotic collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 all the way through to Vladimir Putin’s vision of the modern world.
The films were made by British, Russian and Ukrainian filmmakers working together, enabling Soviets, then Russians and Ukrainians and others to tell the story of their past and present lives openly and without censure.
Much of this access and history was made possible by Memorial, a Russian based organisation founded in 1989 to preserve the voices of history. Memorial was forced to close last year (2021) on the direct orders of Putin. Many of these films stand as tributes to their work.
Unquiet Graves is now available to watch on All 4. Shot in Lviv, Ukraine in June 1991 at the moment the Soviet Union was collapsing, Unquiet Graves provides an insight into some of the complex issues at the heart of the present catastrophe.
Shot by Jacek Petrycki. Edited by Peter Lindley. Directed by Tom Roberts.
The Return: Life After Isis is available now on Sky Documentaries
The Return: Life After Isis is available now on Sky Documentaries
Ronachan Films are proud to announce “Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman”, a co-production with Walk on Air Films, is showing Thursday 6th January at 10:15pm on RTÉ 1 and streaming on BBC IPlayer.
The playwright Brian Friel stands among the giants of Irish literature. Those closest to him along with stars such as Sinéad Cusack, Stephen Rea and Liam Neeson examine the man who transformed Irish theatre in the 20th century.
“A stunning documentary” RTÉ Radio
Peter Taylor: Ireland After Partition is streaming now on BBC iPlayer
“Delightful, human simplicity… blends authority and intimate engagement” – 4 Stars – Ben Dowell, The Times
“Poignant and timely” – 4 Stars – Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian
The Return: Life After Isis is available now on Sky Documentaries
“Impossible not to feel the need to talk about, that in itself marks it as a potent documentary” – 4 Stars – James Jackson, The Times
“You begin simply marvelling at the access… this is a film that makes you interrogate yourself more than any other I can remember” – 4 Stars – Lucy Mangan, The Guardian
“When this mournful film gazed directly into the heart of darkness it became almost unwatchable.” – 4 Stars – Ed Power, i
UK TV Premiere of The Return: Life After ISIS, a unique portrait of a group of Western women who pledged their lives to ISIS, but now want to return home to restart their lives.
Showing on Sky Documentaries HD, Tuesday 15th June at 9pm.
RadioTimes Pick of the Week
For fifty years, Peter Taylor has taken viewers to the darkest – and occasionally the lightest – corners of the troubles. For the centenary of the partition, the BAFTA winning reporter revisits the stories he told in the past, to bring fresh vision to the present state of Northern Ireland.
Tune in on Monday, 14th June at 9 pm, BBC 2 & BBC 1 NI
Huge congratulations to Teresa Griffiths for Director: Factual and Claire Guillon for Editing: Factual wins at this years Craft Awards.
Big thanks to everyone at Erica Starling, Ronachan Films, Enter Yes, Kaboom, Hannah Peel and BBC.
now screening at Hot Docs, Seatle, Warsaw, Sheffield……
“stirring, sobering and vitally humane” – Variety
The powerful documentary provides exclusive access to a group of Western women – including Shamima Begum – who devoted their young lives to ISIS.
The film is an Alba Sotorra Production in association with MetFilm and Ronachan Films, directed and produced by Alba Sotorra.
Congratulations to Teresa, Rachel and the whole LEE MILLER team.
Congratulations to Jesus Abad and the whole team from Ronachan, Pacha and Horne Productions on El Testigo being nominated for best doumentary for the 2020 Emmys.
For those who have not had a chance to see this moving film about the nature of peace and forgiveness, it is now available on NETFLIX: EL TESTIGO or The WITNESS.
Congratulations to the whole team on winning the 22nd Media Awards for “Children’s Rights in One World”.
Martin Kelner on BBC Five Live: April 23,2020: Do watch it if you are a fan of football, a fan of Maradona or a fan of recreational drugs.
Colin Murray on BBC Five Live: The best thing I have ever seen on Maradona….so good…so good.
LEE MILLER – A Life on the Frontline follows one of the most remarkable female icons of the 20th century throughout her transformation from supermodel to an internationally famous war reporter.
Tune in on Sat 2nd May @ 10:30pm on BBC Two
“A cross between Tarrant on TV and Dispatches – a real eye-opener” The Times
(and watch out for Boris Johnson’s ‘Dead Cat’)
“Fine documentary – a timely reminder of assassination and mass murder on the Irish border 40 years ago and why managing the peace process is so vital today, on all sides.” Lionel Barber, Financial Times
“Sam Collyns’s powerful commemoration of one of the darkest days of the Trouble”…“Essential viewing for our leaders.” Jasper Rees, Daily Telegraph
Produced and Directed by Sam Collyns and Co-Produced with Erica Starling, now available on BBC iPlayer
Congratulations to Sam Collyns, Ramita Navai and the whole team on their achievement.
Nominated for 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary.
Shortlisted for 2019 Grierson Awards for Best Single Documentary – International and Best Current Affairs Documentary.
“NO ONE KNOWS THE COLOMBIAN ARMED CONFLICT BETTER THAN JESUS ‘CHUCHO’ ABAD COLORADO”
This June 28th Netflix premieres
The Witness/ EL Testigo: Cain and Abel
Produced by Pacha Films, Ronachan Films and Horne productions for Caracol Televisión.
UN SEX ABUSE SCANDAL
Congratulations to Sam Collyns and Ramita Navai, Anna Davis, Guy Creasey and the amazing team behind the making of our film.
The documentary has been praised as a “powerful exploration of the human toll of the UN sex abuse scandal, giving voice to the victims who so long have been voiceless.”
For more information click here
The jury highly commended this documentary for a grade that felt cinematic and beautiful, adding immensely to the emotion and mood of the film. Astounding work. Powerful, stand out and with huge impact.
LEONORA CARRINGTON – THE LOST SURREALIST
Congratulations to Teresa Griffiths and Rachel Hooper, as well to the creative team: Adam Finch, Neil Harvey, Andy Cowtone and Kris Kelly… as well as to everyone at ERICA STARLING and RONACHAN FILMS!
Screening between the 25th and 28th of October, in various Cine Colombia theatres. Click here for more details.
“The Witness / El Testigo” follows in the footsteps of the Colombian photographer Jesús Abad Colorado , who has dedicated himself to capture in images, during 25 years, the conflict of the country and its protagonists .
Angus Macqueen’s three-part series ‘Our Drugs War’ is now available to watch on All 4.
‘The UN Sex Abuse Scandal review – careful, dignified and gruelling’ – The Guardian
Read Lucy Mangan’s full review here
‘… how child rape became endemic among armed UN peacekeepers drafted to guard the most vulnerable’ – The Sun
Read George Harrison’s full review here
‘Aid organisations accused of ‘complacency verging on complicity’ over sex abuse scandal’ – Channel 4 News
There have been over 1700 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against UN peacekeepers in the last 15 years. Ramita Navai reveals why it keeps happening despite UN promises to stamp it out.
The UN Sex Scandal aired on Channel 4, Wednesday 1st of August and is available to watch on All4 – click here
Click here to watch Angus Macqueen’s 3 part series on Cocaine
Celebrated documentary-maker Angus Macqueen spent 18 months on the cocaine trail across Latin America from the dirt-poor valleys of Peru to the shanty towns of Rio. Here he recalls the journey that revolutionised his views and explains why he believes ‘the dandruff of the Andes’ should be sold in Boots – Click here to read full review in The Guardian
WINNER 2018 GRIERSON AWARD FOR BEST ARTS DOCUMENTARY
British surrealist Leonora Carrington was a key part of the surrealist movement during its heyday in Paris and yet, until recently, remained a virtual unknown in the country of her birth. This film explores her dramatic evolution from British debutante to artist in exile, living out her days in Mexico City, and takes us on a journey into her darkly strange and cinematic world.
A Ronachan Films and Erica Starling Co-Production
1st TX Sunday, 10th December 2017 at 9 pm on BBC Four
BBC iPlayer are screening Angus’s film GULAG, first shown in 1999, at the Telluride Film Festival last year, and now again for the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
You can also check out Peter Hitchens’ latest review here .
Reviews of the first screening:
“the television documentary that gives you time to think….A masterpiece” – Jim Burge in The Independent
“you owe it to mankind to watch Gulag” – Colin Dunkley in
The Financial Times
“Gulag joins the tiny band of works which succeed in confronting us with the complexity and elusiveness of
a great evil” – Colin Thubron
“Soul-shriveling to hear about the resurgence of the far right in a country you hoped had been inoculated against it for all time by the horrors of the Holocaust”
The Guardian
Click here for full review: As hate unfolds in Europe, big questions are asked
First broadcast on BBC Tuesday the 19th of September 2017.
“Thoughtful, beautiful, poetic, genuinely original”
The Guardian
“Bonkers”
The Times
Click here for full review “When poetry meets porkers”
First broadcast on Sunday the 2nd of July 2017 on BBC4.
END OF EDEN first broadcast on ARTE – Saturday 22nd July 2017 at 19:55 CEST
For more details go to:
FRENCH – http://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/062895-000-A/les-paradis-perdus-d-amazonie
GERMAN – http://www.arte.tv/de/videos/062895-000-A/das-ende-von-eden
RTS AWARD 2017 SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY
Congratulations to Guillermo Galdos and Alexander Houghton at Pacha Films and to the whole team.
Thanks to our broadcaster, Channel 4.
Available on Netflix outside the UK
Yet more congratulations to Ed and the team…..
for the prestigious Dupont-Columbia University Journalism Awards
ITV Current Affairs
A Ronachan Films production for ITV
In the 30 years after the Second World War, half a million women had a child adopted – most were babies born to unmarried mothers.
This documentary special in the Exposure strand reveals the stories of some of the many thousands of women pressured by Church and State into giving up their babies for adoption.
Decades later, women are breaking the silence to tell the truth about this injustice.
Produced and directed by Alice Perman
Executive produced by Sam Collyns
If you have been affected by anything in the programme please visit
BRITAIN’S ADOPTION SCANDAL – MORE INFORMATION
If you live in Scotland please visit
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