Claire Lewis, Producer

Claire Lewis is an award-winning film and tv producer; she has won two BAFTA nominations and six Royal Television Society awards as Executive Producer.

She produces the 7UP series with director Michael Apted, including 28UP (1984), 35UP (1991), 42UP (1998) and 49UP (2005), which was voted number one in the Channel 4 top 50 greatest documentaries of all time list and has gone on to inspire spin off series in Russia and the USA.

49UP, a TV and theatrical documentary was nominated for every documentary series award in 2006 winning the RTS award.

The Truck of Dreams (2005) produced by Lewis is a feature film about a young girl’s dreaming of escaping her past. Set in India and funded by Bollywood, The Truck of Dreams won the World cinema award in Washington IDFF, 2006.