Anthony Wonke is a film film director. He is an Emmy and treble BAFTA winning film director and an Oscar nominated and Emmy winning executive producer. He has besides won, amongst early awards, the Prix Italia, Peabody, Grierson and RTS for his films. Wonke is known for his original feature of speech documentaries Ronaldo, Being AP, Fire in the Night and The Battle for Marjah american samoa good as his objective series The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities. Wonke ‘s work ranges across a variety show of genres always highlighted by news, ocular dash and emotional penetration. His work has been shown at film festivals in the US, Canada, the Far East and the UK, angstrom well as being televised on BBC 1, BBC 2, Channel 4 and HBO .

career [edit ]

In 2008, he was granted exclusive access to the female british Olympic Gymnastics police squad, showing the hopes, joys and disappointments behind the Olympic dream. The resulting 90-minute documentary, Gymnast, was broadcast on BBC2 in June 2012. In 2008, he won the BAFTA Factual Series Award for his epic poem 8 adam 50-minute BBC 1 objective series The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities. He directed and series-produced this over three years, charting the extremes of contemporary society by focusing on a loom block within one of the poorest council estates in London which was being sold as luxury flats. The series was besides nominated for a Grierson and Broadcast Award, and won the RTS Award for Factual Editing. subsequently, Wonke series produced and directed The £800M Railway Station, a 6 x 30-minute series for BBC 2. Nominated for a Broadcasting Press Guild Award, the series explores the passion, sacrifice and politics behind the renovation of St Pancras International.

In 2012, The Battle for Marjah, the 90-minute feature documentary Wonke made with Ben Anderson about a platoon of marines in Afghanistan with Wall to Wall Media for HBO/Channel 4, was nominated for three Emmy awards and won the history Makers Award for Best Current Affairs. besides in 2012, Crack House USA, a 90-minute movie he directed for MSNBC/More 4 about a drugs gang in Chicago brought down by a union wire wiretap, was nominated for the BAFTA Factual Photography Award. In 2013, Fire in the Night, a theatrical performance documentary about the Piper Alpha calamity produced by STV for Creative Scotland/BBC, had its world premier at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and won the festival ‘s Audience Award. It was besides nominated for three scots BAFTAs including the Audience Film Award and best feature Film and won best Single objective. It was released in UK cinema before its television receiver premiere on BBC2 to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the catastrophe. In 2014, Wonke produced Children on the Front Line, a interrupt but affecting film for Channel 4 and Arte, about children living in the midst of the fight in Syria, demonstrating the world of those at the heart of the dispute. Wonke and the co-director Marcel Mettelsiefen have received 16 awards for this film including an Emmy, two BAFTAs, the Prix Italia, Peabody, RTS, Grierson and One World. In 2015, he released the theatrical features Ronaldo with Universal Pictures and Being AP with BBC Films. Ronaldo is an confidant and authoritative portrayal of Cristiano Ronaldo, voted the universe ‘s best football player. It was produced by the makers of Senna and Amy. Being AP is the extraordinary story of A P McCoy, who through obsessional commitment to his sport and heroic dismiss of injuries, has become the most successful jump jockey of all clock time, as he starts to contemplate retirement. Being AP received its worldly concern premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2016, Wonke was the executive producer on the Oscar nominated short Watani: My Homeland. The 40-minute objective follows the story of a kin ‘s escape from the syrian Civil War and their try to start a new life in Germany. Wonke ‘s project The Director and The Jedi is a feature documentary following the film director Rian Johnson and his feel of directing the latest Star Wars movie. It had its populace premier at SXSW in March 2018. His have objective about the global ISIS terrorist Jihadi John for HBO premiered in summer 2019.

In former years, Wonke has added commercials to his directing portfolio and the results have been highly acclaimed. He has worked for Ogilvy Mather, New York, Saatchi and JWT on the BP, Lurpak and Mazda 3 campaigns respectively. His advanced direction of the Ogilvy Mather Du Pont Horizons political campaign has been rewarded with awards at the BRAVES, the Stevies, the Internet Advertising Awards, the One Show Pencils and a place on the shortlist at Cannes Lion Awards. His Brooklyn Brothers/We Are Social Jaguar “ Your turn Britain ” campaign won a Campaign Award and two Chartered Institute of Marketing Awards while his Partizan/Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y & R “ Vodafone substantial Families ” campaign won a british Arrows Craft Award in 2014. Wonke is represented for movie and television by Casarotto Ramsay and Associates and by Partizan for commercials .

personal life [edit ]

Wonke is married with two daughters and lives in north London .

Filmography [edit ]

Executive producer

Year Title Awards and nominations
2016 Children of Syria Winner – Emmy – Current Affairs
Nominated – Emmy – Best documentary
2016 Watani: My Homeland Nominated – Oscar – Best Documentary Short

Director

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