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.^[1] It was retitled Beyond the Gates for its 2007 U.S. release.^[2] He has directed documentaries (for the BBC, Simon Schama's Power of Art, and for PBS "God in America'" and "The Amish") and dramas ("Ten Days to War").

Partial credits

• 1990, producer, BBC programme Newsnight with Peter Barron in 1990.^[3]
• 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".^[4]
• 2003, deputy editor, BBC's This World, TV documentary, War Spin: Jessica Lynch.^[5]
• 2003, executive producer, "Exclusive to Al-Jazeera"^[6]
• 2003, executive producer, The Real Dr. Evil, BBC documentary about Kim Jong Il.^[7]
• 2005, Producer and co-writer, Shooting Dogs, directed by Michael Caton-Jones and written by David Wolstencroft with John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz.^[8]
• 2006, director, BBC's Simon Schama's Power of Art Season 1 episode "Vincent Van Gogh".^[9]
• 2007, executive producer, Windscale: Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Disaster, TV documentary narrated by Caroline Catz.^[10]
• 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.
• 2011, Writer and Director of "The Amish", for PBS's American Experience.

Honours

• 2006, nomination, Carol Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer, BAFTA Awards^[10][11]
• 2008, nomination, Best Drama-Documentary, Ten Days to War, (Grierson Awards)

References

1. ^ David Belton (2006-03-26). "Walking with ghosts". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/mar/27/rwanda.film. 
2. ^ Holden, Stephen (2007-03-09). "From a Schoolhouse in Rwanda, Wrenching Lessons About Genocide". New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/movies/09gate.html?fta=y. Retrieved 2008-03-15. 
3. ^ Peter Barron (2006-03-07). "Something worth watching". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4770326.stm. 
4. ^ "Volcano's Deadly Warning". pbs.org. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/volcano/credits.html. Retrieved 2008-03-15. 
5. ^ "Correspondent: War Spin". bbc.co.uk. 2003-05-18. http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/programmes/correspondent/transcripts/18.5.031.txt. Retrieved 2008-03-15. 
6. ^ "Exclusive to Al-Jazeera: Cast & Crew". msn.com. http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=549005&mp=c. Retrieved 2008-03-15. 
7. ^ Heffernan, Virginia (2004-08-24). "TELEVISION REVIEW; Blustery and Unfunny Goings-On in Kim Jong Il's North Korea". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE2DA143EF937A1575BC0A9629C8B63. Retrieved 2008-03-15. 
8. ^ Holden, Stephen (2007-03-09). "Movie Review; Beyond the Gates (2005)". New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/movies/09gate.html?fta=y. Retrieved 2008-11-30. 
9. ^ "Simon Schama's Power of Art PBS" (pdf). WNET Thirteen. http://www.thirteen.org/pressroom/pdf/poa/POAProdBios.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-15. 
10. ^ ^{a b} "David Belton". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0069582/. Retrieved 2008-03-15. 
11. ^ "'I loved it - but it's painful'". The Guardian. 2006-02-15. http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1710271,00.html. Retrieved 2008-03-15. 

External links

• "Revisiting Rwanda", 2007 Interview in Christianity Today

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