Jenny Barraclough

Jenny Barraclough is a British film and television producer. Much of her work is in television documentaries. She is also involved in a number of trusts and charities including the Grierson Trust, LEPRA, and the Razumovsky Ensemble.

Barraclough was educated at St Brandon's School (Somerset), Millfield (Somerset), and St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she achieved a BA Hons in English.

Barraclough was one of the first women television producers. Barraclough's film "Gale is Dead" (1971) was one of the first to draw attention to young homeless and drug addicts and contributed to the establishment of a House of Commons committee. Her film "Women in Prison" in 1972 (which won a BAFTA) was the first film to be shot in a women's prison in the UK. In the 1980s she made two films on Queen Elizabeth II and two on 10 Downing Street for BBC One. Barraclough also produced films on the arts, including one on the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and a major series on the London Symphony Orchestra in 1986.

Barraclough's films on AIDS helped promote understanding of the disease in its early days. Barraclough also produced other series focused on medicine, including series on transplant surgey and the history of cancer. Films for BBC World have included projects on leprosy (2001), vaccination (2004), and international efforts to prevent the spread of avian flu. In 2005 Barraclough produced a widely-distributed film on the MMR vaccine for the Department of Health.

She was made a member of two BBC think tanks.

Professional Career

Awards

Jenny Barraclough is director of Barraclough Carey (founded in 1988) which has won many international awards for their documentaries, both singles and multi-part.

Best Documentary Awards

Trusts and Charity

Grierson Trust - responsible for the Grierson Best Documentary Awards (Trustee and Chairman)

Trustee and Chairman of the [http://www.griersontrust.org/ Grierson Trust] which plays a leading role in supporting the quality documentary in the UK at a time when it is threatened by ratings and other commercial imperatives. As Trustee she has helped expand the event from a single award to an event with nine categories, and as Chairman she has initiated many new ideas including the specially commissioned films by young 'Newcomers'. She has expanded the Trust's activities into many new areas, like staging the popular National Film Theatre events that highlight ethical and other issues in documentary-making, mounting Master Classes with [http://www.dochouse.org/ DocHouse] where leading documentary makers share their skills with their audiences, and supporting festivals that honour the documentary. She has helped initiated three new Grierson Sheffield Awards at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival: the 'most innovative', best 'green' film and a 'youth award' for the film most admired by young audiences.

LEPRA - The fight against leprosy (Chairman)

Jenny Barraclough made the influential programme 'The New Face of Leprosy' in 2001 which was shown to 27 million people on BBC World and then shown by many individual national networks and also by educational groups throughout the affected countries. As a Member of the Executive Board of LEPRA she has helped make decisions on the treatment of leprosy, TB and AIDS among thousands of people on three continents, speaking on the organisation's behalf and making fund raising films for them. She became chairman in 2007 and works closely with the CEO in managing a charity with a £12 million annual income and employing over 4,500 world wide.

[http://www.razumovsky.org.uk/ Razumovsky Ensemble] (Trustee of Razumovsky Trust)

The Razumovsky Ensemble founded by the award winning Russian cellist, Oleg Kogan, is a chamber ensemble that features top international players. The ensemble has become a remarkable success with a strong following, playing regularly at the Wigmore Hall and at Festivals abroad. It has now formed the Razumovsky Academy in which the members of the ensemble train outstanding students from all over the world to become world class musicians. The young academy players now give their own concerts in the Wigmore Hall and they also go out into schools to inspire pupils to study classical music.

External links

(1) [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056617/ Jenny Barraclough] at the Internet Movie Database (2) [http://www.griersontrust.org/ Grierson Trust] (3) [http://www.razumovsky.org.uk/ Razumovsky Ensemble] (4) [http://www.dochouse.org/ DocHouse]