Award winning filmmaker Anna Hall becomes Honorary Professor at Salford
BAFTA winner and veteran documentary filmmaker Anna Hall has been named an Honorary Professor at the University of Salford.
Anna, who is Chief Creative Officer and the Founder of Leeds-based Candour Productions, will be supporting the University and students on the MA Documentary Production for TV, Film and Digital Media course.
A celebrated documentarian, Anna has been making films for nearly 30 years, has been nominated for seven BAFTA awards and is the only woman ever to be nominated in two consecutive years for the Best Factual Director Award at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards.
Her BAFTA win came in 2023 for the true crime series Libby, Are You Home Yet? (2022) which followed the disappearance and murder of University student Libby Squire.
Anna recently met the current cohorts of students on the programme at our MediaCity campus as she was named an Honorary Professor.
She said: “I loved talking to the students at the University of Salford. We had a really interesting and engaging discussion about the ethics of documentary making, how we treat our contributors with integrity and sensitivity and navigate hugely difficult legal issues.
“I feel very encouraged about the next generation of fantastic documentary makers coming out of Salford!”
Maire Tracey, Programme Leader for MA Documentary Production for TV, Film and Digital Media, said: “We are thrilled to have Anna as our new Honorary Professor. Her documentaries are films everyone should watch. This is a great opportunity for our students and it was wonderful to hear about her work.”
Anna is well-known across the UK film and television industry for her groundbreaking Channel 4 documentary Edge of the City (2004) which followed Bradford Social Services and the award-winning The Hunt for Britain’s Sex Gangs (2013).
In addition to winning and being nominated for several Broadcast and Royal Television Society awards, she has also been nominated for four Grierson Awards – a prestigious recognition for documentary filmmakers – in 2023 was awarded the Grierson Trustees Award and in 2021, was named Best Producer at the Women in Film & TV Awards.
Her most recent work is The Push: Murder on the Cliff, a series for Channel 4 which is the inside story of a murder trial in Edinburgh, Scotland where a man was accused of pushing his wife from a hillside to her death. Anna was the series director and executive producer of the programme which was received to critical acclaim.
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