Christopher Hird, Executive Producer

Christopher Hird is one of the UK’s most experienced producers of documentaries and factual television. He was one of the founders of Fulcrum Productions, which was in business for more than 20 years, making programmes for broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic.

In 2008 he established Dartmouth Films, to build on his strong track record in independent documentary making and committed to documentaries which make a difference.

Hird was the executive producer of The Terror and the Truth (1997), a three part series dealing with the issues of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation, which was funded by the Ford Foundation, won the European Union Humanitarian Award and was shown on BBC television.

He executive produced Belonging (2003), an independent feature length documentary chronicling the return of a Cambodian orphan to Cambodia 28 years later, which was nominated for the Grierson Best Theatrical Documentary Award.

More recently, he was executive producer of Black Gold (2006), the feature length documentary about the plight of the Ethiopian coffee farmers, which premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2006, and has been released theatrically in the USA and in the UK.

He was most recently executive producer of Pig Business, to be released in 2009.