Productions
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17 September 2014
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Matchlight / BBC1 |
Audrey Hepburn documentary |
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For BBC 1 the production house Matchlight is asked to produce a documentary about the famous actress Audrey Hepburn. As a young woman Hepburn lived in Arnhem, in the far east of the Netherlands. She arrived in the Netherlands just before the Second world war started and experienced German occupation and the traumatic end of the war, known from movies like a ‘Bridge too far’. This period in her live must have had a large influence on her. Former dancer Darcey Bussel presents the documentary and visits the local theatre, an old villa where Hepburn’s grandparents lived and the Airborne museum in Oosterbeek. Since all the trams were destroyed in the war, the director is driven back to the only historic tram left in the Arnhem Open Air museum. Video Link!
Activities: find protagonists, recce locations, final planning and set-up, organise and drive rental van, accompany filming, research for lunch and dinners.