David Belton
David Belton is a director, writer, and film producer. His experiences as a BBC reporter covering the 1994 Rwandan genocide led him to write the original story and produce the film Shooting Dogs, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, which dramatizes the events at the Ecole Technique Officielle. It was retitled Beyond the Gates for its 2007 U.S. release. He has directed documentaries and drama-documentaries and documentaries for PBS and dramas for the BBC. His book, When the Hills Ask for Your Blood was published in January 2014 by Doubleday.
Partial credits
- 1990, producer, BBC programme Newsnight with Peter Barron in 1990.
- 1997 Writer and Director, "Soldiers to Be" for BBC Documentaries.
- 2000 Writer and Director, "Lost Seoul", BBC Reputations documentary on Olympic sprinter, Ben Johnson.
- 2002, producer and director, Nova episode, "Volcano's Deadly Warning".
- 2003, deputy editor, BBC's This World, TV documentary, War Spin: Jessica Lynch.
- 2003, executive producer, "Exclusive to Al-Jazeera"
- 2003, executive producer, The Real Dr. Evil, BBC documentary about Kim Jong Il.
- 2005, Producer and co-writer, Shooting Dogs, directed by Michael Caton-Jones and written by David Wolstencroft with John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz.
- 2006, director, BBC's Simon Schama's Power of Art Season 1 episode "Vincent van Gogh".
- 2007, executive producer, Windscale: Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Disaster, TV documentary narrated by Caroline Catz.
- 2008, director, 10 Days to War, written by Ronan Bennett, with Kenneth Branagh, Juliet Stephenson, Tom Conti.
- 2010, Series Director and writer, "God in America", with Michael Emerson and Toby Jones. The Amish", for PBS's [American Experience">The Amish (documentary)">The Amish", for PBS's [American Experience.url=[https://archive.today/20130415224303/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/amish/
- 2014, Author "When [The Hills Ask For Your Blood" url=http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/when-the-hills-ask-for-your-blood/9780385615648
- 2014 [Book Review, The Independent
- 2015 Writer/Director, BBC2 "Nelson In His Own Words".
- 2016 Writer/Director, Netflix, "Captive".
- 2018 Writer/Director, Amazon, "This is Football".
- 2021 Writer/Director, BBC, "Blair and Brown: the New Labour Revolution".https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/04/blair-brown-the-new-labour-revolution-review-the-ruthless-rise-of-no-10s-odd-couple
- 2021 Writer/Director, MSNBC Films, "Memory Box - Echoes of 9/11"
- 2023 Writer/Director, Canal+, "Ukrainian Storybox, Voices of War"
Honours
- 2006, nomination, Carol Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer, BAFTA Awards
- 2008, nomination, Best Drama-Documentary, Ten Days to War,
- 2012, nomination, Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, Primetime Emmy Awards http://www.emmys.com/sites/emmys.com/files/EmmyNoms64-Press-Release-6.pdf
- 2022, nomination, Best History Documentary, Memory Box - Echoes of 9/11,