Drama and Docs — David Bartlett

MEXICAN BORDER BUST

Adapted for the screen by David Bartlett (from the book “Locked Up In La Mesa” by Steve Peterson), this high-octane, 1970s caper careers from the comic to the horrific… The true story of pot-head Peterson’s failed attempt to smuggle 120 kilos of marijuana across the Mexico-USA border on foot.

CASUALTY

BBC primetime medical drama serial, with guest star Rosemary Leach.

Critics’ Choice – The Sunday Times

TV Choice – Radio Times

Pick of The Day – What’s On TV

COVENANT OF HATE

Winner of CSC Award for Best Cinematography 2014: Ben Lichty (DoP)

Harrowing true story, adapted from the book “Tabernacle of Hate: Seduction into Right Wing Extremism” by Kerry Noble. An innocent, vulnerable couple from Texas joins a Christian commune in the 1970s, just before it descends into a hate-filled, white supremacist cult bent on murder and violence.

MY ETERNAL CONTRACT

Screen adaptation of Nancy Many’s shocking memoir “My Billion Year Contract” detailing her 30-year involvement with the Church of Scientology as one of its principal leaders.

SUZY DOLL

A large doll is given to Heather Platt on her sixth birthday, but soon proves to be anything but a welcome gift as it exerts a supernatural and terrifying effect on her family.

WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER

When a mum and her six-year old daughter move into a big old house in Vermont, a “fresh start” soon becomes a battle to survive an onslaught of Old Testament terrors as a long-dead occupant reaches through time to avenge his own death.

THE HASIDIC KING OF COKE

Intense action-comedy depicting the anarchic and ultimately life-and-death career of English and Brazilian cocaine baron Samuel Liebowitz - self-proclaimed King of Coke (and devout Orthodox Jew).

JACKSON vs ADAMS 1828

Duels, slander, libel, threats and lies… Dramatisation of the triumphs and traumas of the 1828 US Presidential Election - said to be the dirtiest in history.

BUSH vs DUKAKIS 1988

The George HW Bush presidential campaign team will stop at nothing to destroy Democratic challenger Michael Dukakis in this ugly US Presidential race.

SON OF SADDAM

Based on the controversial best-selling book “The Devil’s Double” by Latif Yahia, this unswerving drama-documentary relates the bloody tale of the body double of Saddam Hussein’s eldest son.

Starring Sam Vincenti as Latif Yahia and Uday Hussein

TRIAL OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

Documentary depicting the persecution of the SAS of the medieval crusades, and revealing for the first time the confession document that saved the last Templars in the 14th century… Or damned them forever.

Documentary Choice – Time Out

**** Daily Mail

Choice – Sunday Times Culture

Critic’s Choice – The Daily Telegraph