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L8R & L8R Youngers Sales
L8R Series 1 & 2
10 multi-award-winning episodes exploring: teenage parenthood; sex and relationships, risk-taking, gangs and gun crime. SOLD OUT on DVD. Please contact John White with enquiries at [email protected]
L8R Youngers
6 x 5min BAFTA award-winning episodes for Year 6 Primary PSHE, SOLD OUT on DVD. Please email John White with enquiries.
L8R Youngers 2
The same young characters, just arrived at Secondary school. 6 x 6 min BAFTA award-winning episodes available to stream from the BBC Learning Zone. Episodes explore Year 7 & 8 PSHE themes as well as transition to Secondary school.
L8R Youngers 3
The characters are now in Year 9. 3 x 10min BAFTA nominated episodes available to stream from the BBC Learning Zone. Episodes explore; the pressure to have sex and sexting; alcohol and binge drinking; coping with financial pressures.
Sample episodes from L8R Youngers series 2 & 3 are below.
L8R Series 2 Episode 2
This is the final episode of 10 x 10min L8R Series 1 & 2. L8R was a ground-breaking interactive cross-platform series. All the TV episodes were broadcast on BBC2. Episodes and Project produced and directed by John White. L8R won both RTS and Children’s BAFTA Awards. The BAFTA judges said:
“This was the bravest of submissions in terms of its subject matter and range of media - a truly cross-platform service.”
ABOUT
johnwhite productions develops and produces award-winning broadcast and online drama, specializing in projects with diverse writers new to TV. We also take on education, training and participative media commissions.
As a Director and Producer John has an outstanding record in Children’s and Youth TV & online drama, with three Children’s BAFTA Awards.
For more on John’s history and CV go to: uk.linkedin.com/in/johnwhitefreelance
For recent production please also see: vimeopro.com/johnw/johnwhite-productions and: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sbw7l/clips
As Director and Producer John White has an outstanding record of nominations and awards.
AWARDS
L8R Youngers 2: BAFTA Children’s Awards, 2012
L8R Youngers: BAFTA Children’s Awards, 2010 “Great, gritty performances from a young cast, with daring themes that would definitely appeal to the target market.”
L8R Series 2: BAFTA Children’s Awards, 2009 “This was the bravest of submissions in terms of its subject matter and range of media - a truly cross-platform service.”
L8R Series 1: Basel-Karlsruhe Forum Multimedia Award 2007 Royal Television Society Interactive and Multimedia Education Award 2004
NOMINATIONS
L8R Youngers 3:
BAFTA Children’s Awards, 2013
L8R Series 1:
BAFTA Children’s Awards, Interactive 2006 BAFTA Children’s Awards, Schools Drama 2005 RTS Secondary Interactive 2005 Japan Prize 2004
L8R Youngers 2 shoot
BROADCAST DEVELOPMENT
As Director and Producer John has been working with writers to develop arresting and innovative broadcast and online drama since 2000. Most recently in 2014 he led a 13-part drama series development for CBBC with a team of 3 writers for Actorshop Prods, and currently he is working on a slate of exciting projects with diverse writers often new to TV.
Creative Associates - Writers
Malcolm Campbell
Malcolm is an award-winning screenwriter from Mansfield whose recent credits include the acclaimed feature film What Richard Did (for which he won Best Screenplay at the 2013 Evening Standard British Film Awards and Best Script at the 2014 Irish Film Awards) and BBC1’s series The White Queen. He has written for some of the UK’s most popular dramas, including Shameless and Skins. Malcolm wrote 9 of the 10 award-winning L8R Series 1 & 2 episodes and co-wrote and supervised all three L8R Youngers series. He was Lead Writer on Actorshop Productions recent series development CUZ for CBBC.
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Trish Cooke
Trish Cooke is an award-winning author of children’s books, a theatre and TV writer, actor and presenter. Trish’s TV writing credits include the BBC’s EastEnders and the afternoon drama Doctors as well as comedy writing for programmes such as The Real McCoy (BBC), Get Up Stand Up (C4), Brothers and Sisters (BBC) and children’s programmes such as Playdays (BBC). Trish was also one of the original writers on CBBC’s Tweenies. She was part of the team working with John White on the recent CUZ series development for CBBC.
Donna Marie Dowe
Donna graduated from the London College of Communications with an MA in Screenwriting in 2012. She successfully went through this course while working full-time - evidence of a strong commitment to screenwriting. In 2015 she wrote and then successfully produced a pilot TV comedy show Switchin, with investment she attracted on the strength of the script. In 2013, her short, The Office, won best short script at, BUFF, the British Urban Film Festival and was selected for a staged reading at Channel 4. Her 2011 pilot script for a 6 x 30min TV drama series Aint Life Funny was shortlisted by BBC Writers Room. She currently has TV ideas in development with several companies including johnwhite productions.
Paula B Stanic
Paula grew up in Manor Park, East London and is of mixed Caribbean/Syrian descent. Her theatre writing includes What’s Lost which won the 2008 Alfred Fagon Award, (staged readings, Royal Court Downstairs & UP Theater Company, New York, 2014); Monday which headlined the Emerge New Works Festival, Leeds (Red Ladder Theatre) and was short-listed for the 2009 John Whiting/ Peter Wolff Award; 6 Minutes which was one of the plays in ‘Everything Must Go’ a response to the recession season, Soho Theatre; Under a Foreign Sky, a Theatre Centre national tour, 2011; Blair’s Children Cockpit Theatre 2013 and Steering Through Stars national tour 2015 for Tangle. Paula is one of Eclipse Theatre Company’s Revolution Mix writers 2015-2018. She currently has TV ideas in development with several companies including johnwhite productions.
David Watson
David Watson’s first play Just A Bloke was produced by the Royal Court Theatre when he was just 17. His other plays include Flight Path (2007), for the Bush/Out of Joint, which was shortlisted for both the John Whiting and George Devine Awards, and Pieces of Vincent (2010) for the Arcola. Any Which Way (2009) an anti-knife crime play for Only Connect, written for and performed by a cast of ex-offenders, prompted this review: “David Watson is a remarkable writer – he writes with searing accuracy and without any shrill moralising” (John Peter, Sunday Times). David co-wrote L8R Series 2 Episode 2 and all three of the L8R Youngers series, two of which won Children’s BAFTAs while the third was nominated. He was part of the team working with John White on the recent CUZ series development for CBBC.
Creative Associates - Producers & Filmmakers
Rachel Bailey
Rachel Bailey is a producer with over 15 years experience working between the film and television industry and the voluntary sector. As Development Producer at Mental Health Media she was responsible for The Mental Health Media Awards, and the ReelMadness Film Festival. As Development Director at Media for Development, Rachel was responsible for animation films made with young people in juvenile units, a programme of digital storytelling films, and Freeasabird, a multimedia peer support project for women leaving prison. Rachel produced the BAFTA nominated short drama Care, was one of the original development team with John White on Hi8us South’s BAFTA winning interactive youth drama L8R, and in 2013 co-produced the BAFTA nominated spinoff mini-series L8R Youngers 3 for BBC2/BBC Learning.
Dan Saul
Daniel Saul is an artist filmmaker working across genres to capture stories from ordinary people and re-present them in extraordinary ways. Recent commissions have included ‘Streets of Gold’ an international exhibition at The Museum of London, ‘Serenade for a Satellite’ a theatre collaboration with The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and artist Graeme Miller, performed at The Barbican Centre, and a series of short films made in collaboration with Protein Dance Company at Evelina Children’s Hospital. In 2012/13 Daniel worked as lead filmmaker on Poplar Young Filmmakers, two ‘First Light’ commissions made with groups of young people in Tower Hamlets, produced by John White.
L8R Youngers 3 Promo
The three episodes of L8R Youngers 3 were produced and directed by John White in 2013 for BBC 2 and BBC Learning, earning a Children’s BAFTA Nomination. The full episodes can be seen here.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
John has an award winning background in TV Drama for Education and 30 years experience responding to a wide range Training and Education commissions, with high quality and powerful results for clients. See below for recent non-broadcast commissions.
RECENT TRAINING & EDUCATION COMMISSIONS
Trans-Inclusive PSHE - a 10 min documentary training video with 3 additional shorts, designed for working with teachers in a training environment. Produced in 2016 for Stonewall, the Sex Education Forum/National Children’s Bureau, Brighton & Hove Standards and Achievement Team, and Allsorts Youth Project, Brighton. Produced, Directed and Edited by John White
Newham & Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnerships - 5 short dramas commissioned in 2015 by two EBP teams for employability training in schools, dealing with: telephone technique, writing CVs, attending for appointments and handling interviews. Produced, Directed and Edited by John White
The Making of What The Thunder Said – a documentary commissioned in 2014 by Theatre Centre about the collaborative development with young people of their play What The Thunder Said, about the impact of violence on primary age children. Director - Rosa Rogers, Producer - John White
Poplar Youngfilmmakers2012 - a young people’s filmmaking project supported by First Light/UK Film Council/BFI and hosted by Poplar HARCA Community Housing Association. Three films were made by 51 Young People from Poplar, East London, over the summer of 2012. Filmmaker/Mentor – Dan Saul, Producer/Lead Mentor John White