
Norman Hull
Directing
Biography
Norman Hull is an award winning, highly regarded film director with a critically praised catalogue of pioneering films. He’s a graduate of the National Film and Television School and has directed films for television and cinema. Norman launched his own production company, AVP Films, with the short drama OUT OF TOWN, nominated for Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival. He then co-wrote and directed the feature film LADDER OF SWORDS, which was released to critical acclaim and played at film festivals around the world. Since then Norman has created an impressive body of work in television, making films for Channel 4, Five, ITV, and the BBC. He has two nominations for the Grierson Awards, three BAFTA nominations and his feature documentary AIRPLANESKI! won the Golden Spire Award at the San Francisco Film Festival.
Known For

Britain's Best Sitcom was a poll conducted in 2004 by the BBC, to identify the United Kingdom's best sitcom. Viewers were asked to vote for their favourite by phone, text message and on the web. The top ten went forward to a final round of voting. Ten, one hour long programmes were made before the final round, each about one of the Top 10, the programmes consisting of a celebrity speaking on behalf of their chosen sitcom as well as interviews with the stars and people that made it. Each of these programmes consisted of the celebrity advocating the sitcom giving a list of reasons as to why viewers should vote for the sitcom being advocated, as well as featuring plugs from other famous fans of each sitcom. Jonathan Ross hosted the countdown show.
Britain's Best Sitcom

The story of the "Canoe Man" John Darwin who faked his own death and tried to start a new life with a false identity.
Canoe Man

A man walking on a country road gets his foot stuck in a hole. But why will nobody stop to help?
Out of Town

An escaped convict, pursued by an obsessive policeman, hides out in a travelling circus
Ladder of Swords
Drama documentary about one of the world's most prolific and diverse art forgers, Shaun Greenhalgh, who created fake paintings, antiques and sculptures to dupe the art world.
The Antiques Rogue Show

A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.
The Thieving Headmistress

Rock Bitch is a group of female musicians who live in a sex commune. The girls see themselves as striking a blow for women everywhere, and they are doing it through the medium of rock music.
This Is Rockbitch

Over the course of several months, 21-year-old Gemma Barker invented and impersonated three different boys, 'Aaron', 'Luke', and 'Connor', and under these three separate guises went on to seduce two teenage girls. Gemma was sentenced to 30 months in prison for fraud and sexual assault.
The Girl Who Became Three Boys

Documentary based on interviews during the Birmingham Tattoo Convention in the early '90s.
TATTOO: A Celebration Of Body Art

1987 documentary featuring comic book writer Alan Moore.
Monsters, Maniacs and Moore
The Kray twins' legend is as potent today as it has ever been but Cutting Edge suggests reality is far from the myth
Reggie Kray

Wildlife cameraman John Waters travels to the forests of the Pacific Northwest in search of the elusive cryptozoological specimen known as Bigfoot.