{"id":15978,"date":"2019-10-31T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etiudaandanima.pl\/?p=15978"},"modified":"2020-10-19T13:26:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T11:26:50","slug":"chris-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/chris-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Chris Hunt is one of the UK\u2019s pre-eminent programme-makers. With over 50 awards to his name including four Emmys out of 7 nominations, he has built a distinguished career in film and television. In 2018 a retrospective series of 6 of his films was shown in movie theatres across the US.
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Chris Hunt left Cambridge University in 1976 and immediately worked in film and television, joining the BBC in 1979, then LWT in 1985 where he produced and directed \u2018The South Bank Show\u2019. UK television\u2019s highest-rated music and arts series. In 1988 he left to found Iambic Productions Ltd., which he built into a highly successful arts production company. In 1999 he also founded the quoted public company DCD Media, and he led it as Chief Executive as it grew into one of the top ten \u2018super-indies\u2019 in the UK until he decided to return to programme-making late in 2008. He has since founded Stanza Media Limited, specialising in high-end documentaries and performances.
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Chris Hunt\u2019s music documentary credits are legion. He won a Bafta nomination and Emmy for \u2018Jose Carreras \u2013 A Life Story<\/em>\u2018, and his \u2018Abba \u2013 The Winner Takes It All\u2019 <\/em>was also Bafta-nominated as well as being the highest-rated music film in history in the UK, narrowly beating his own \u2018The Michael Jackson Story\u2019<\/em>, which was still the highest rated single documentary of its year in Britain. Like nearly all his music films, these went on to be very popular worldwide. He has also produced \u2018Placido Domingo \u2013 My Greatest Roles\u2019<\/em>, a major doc for BBC1, Arte, ZDF and others, \u2018Roy Orbison \u2013 The Big \u2018O\u2019<\/em>, \u2018The Beatles in \u201cLove\u201d\u2019, \u2018Stuart Sutcliffe \u2013 The Lost Beatle\u2019, \u2018Abba \u2013 The Reunion\u2019, \u2018The Abba Years\u2019, \u2018Eric Clapton\u2019 <\/em>(Emmy nominated), \u2018The Clapton Sessions\u2019, \u2018The Truth About Boy Bands\u2019, \u2018Maria Callas \u2013 Living and Dying for Art and Love\u2019 <\/em>(multi award-winning), \u2018Joan Sutherland \u2013 Reluctant Prima Donna\u2019, \u2018Suzanne Vega\u2019, \u2018The Search for Robert Johnson\u2019, <\/em>and about twenty more.
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Among his other credits are the double Emmy-winning \u2018Elaine Stritch At Liberty\u2019 <\/em>co-directed with Don Pennebaker; the Emmy-nominated \u2018King Lear\u2019<\/em>, starring Ian McKellen, the Emmy-winning film of \u2018Oklahoma!\u2019 <\/em>starring Hugh Jackman, \u2018The Merchant of Venice\u2019, \u2018Kiss Me, Kate\u2019, \u2018Romeo and Juliet\u2019, <\/em>and concerts from Ronnie Scott\u2019s to the Royal Albert Hall, from the 75,000 capacity Principality Stadium to Beijing\u2019s National Indoor Arena.
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Chris Hunt is one of only two British people currently elected to the Board of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and he was from 2007-2012 also President of the IMZ, the UNESCO-affiliated international trade association for music and media organizations, whose members include major broadcasters, distributors, and a few of the world\u2019s top producers. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Hunt is one of the UK\u2019s pre-eminent programme-makers. With over 50 awards to his name including four Emmys out of 7 nominations, he has built a distinguished career in film and television. In 2018 a retrospective series of 6 of his films was shown in movie theatres across the US. Chris Hunt left Cambridge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[870],"tags":[652,710,653,658],"class_list":["post-15978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-870","tag-festival-guests-2019","tag-guest-chris-hunt","tag-guests-26th-etiudaanima","tag-guests-etiudaanima-2019"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15982,"href":"https:\/\/etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978\/revisions\/15982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}