Colin Barr.
Creative Director, Factual & Factual Drama
Colin Barr is a BAFTA and Emmy-winning Executive Producer/Director who works across Factual and Drama. Previously, he was Creative Director at Minnow Films and an Executive Producer at the BBC.
In Factual, his credits include the BAFTA-winning series’, “Our War” and “Life and Death Row”, as well as the critically-acclaimed, “The Detectives”, “American Justice”, “How to Die: Simon’s Choice” and “Abused: The Untold Story”. Prior to that, he won an Emmy as a Director for “Space Dive”, the feature documentary Red Bull Stratos, Felix Baumgartner’s record-beating freefall from the edge of space.
More recently, he was responsible for Channel Four’s hit format, “SAS: Who Dares Wins”, which sold globally and is now in its fourth series.
In Drama, he Executive Produced BBC One’s BAFTA-winning film, “Damilola: Our Loved Boy” and the BAFTA-nominated series, “Our World War”. He also oversaw the BBC Three dramas, “My Murder” and “Glasgow Girls” and Channel Four’s, “The Watchman” and “Shamed”.