Tom Brisley

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Tom Brisley alongside John Smithson is co-founder and joint creative director of Arrow Media, one of the UK’s fastest-growing independent production companies having won BAFTA and Royal Television Society awards.

Brisley has created returning series for broadcasters in both the UK and US. His credits include America In Color for Smithsonian Channel. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the series a 100% fresh rating. For UK broadcasters, Brisley has made Inside Balmoral for Channel 5 and Pearl Harbor: The Truth for Channel 4.

Brisley led Arrow’s foray into the True Crime genre, including returning series for Investigation Discovery, such as See No Evil and American Monster.

2018 saw the announcement of his feature documentary Under The Wire for History Films, British Film Institute and BBC4 which has received several award nominations including the Bergen International Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards.

Prior to founding Arrow, Brisley ran the factual TV output of Darlow Smithson Productions, where he was responsible for creating and executive producing more than 150 hours of television, including documentary specials such as Miracle on the Hudson, Concorde's Last Flight and the BAFTA-nominated Tsunami: Caught on Camera. Prior to Arrow Brisley worked as a producer/director in the independent sector and at the BBC, where he started his TV career as a graduate trainee.

Awards

• 2018, Brisley was nominated for the British Independent Film Awards Best Documentary Award for “Under The Wire”
• 2018, Brisley was nominated for Bergen International Film Festival Checkpoints Award for “Under The Wire”
• 2015, Brisley won the BAFTA Digital Creativity Award for “Live from Space: Lap of the Planet”
• 2014, Brisley won the Royal Television Society Science and Natural History Award for “Live from Space
• 2014, Brisley won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Science or Nature Documentary Series for “Aliens: The Definitive Guide”
• 2014, Brisley won the Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Space Achievement Media: Broadcast and Written Award for “Live from Space”
• 2010, Brisley was nominated for the BAFTA Single Documentary Award for “Tsunami: Caught on Camera”
• 2006, Brisley won the New York TV Awards Gold for “Seconds from Disaster”

Selected Filmography

• Innovation: Life, Inspired (2004) (executive producer - 1 episode)
• World’s Biggest Airliner: Building the Airbus A380 (2005) (executive producer)
• ”Blitz: London’s Firestorm (2005) (executive producer)
• ”Journey to the Heart of the Tsunami: Unstoppable Wave” (2005) (executive producer)
• ”Unsolved History” (2005) (executive producer)
• ”The Giant of the Skies” (2005) (executive producer)
• Megastructures (2004-2006) (executive producer – 6 episodes)
• ”Lusitania: Murder on the Atlantic” (2007) (executive producer)
• ”Young Elvis in Colour” (2007) (executive producer)
• ”Savannah: Pig Politics” (2008) (executive producer)
• Smash Lab (2007-2008) (executive producer – 20 episodes)
• ”Ecopolis” (2008) (executive producer)
• True Heroes (2008) (executive producer – 9 episodes)
• ”Savannah: Faster, Stronger, Wilder” (2008) (executive producer)
• ”Engineering Ancient Egypt” (2008) (executive producer)
• Ancient Megastructures (2007-2008) (executive producer)
• Miracle on the Hudson Plane Crash (2009) (executive producer)
• ”Turin Shroud: New Evidence” (2009) (executive producer)
• ”Tsunami: Caught on Camera” (2009) (executive producer)
• Convoy: War of the Atlantic (2009) (executive producer – 4 episodes)
• ”The Underwear Bomber: Detroit Plane Plot” (2010) (executive producer)
• Future Earth (2010) (executive producer – 1 episode)
• ”Lost: The Mystery of Flight 447” (2010) (executive producer)
• ”Bloody Foreigners” (2010) (executive producer)
• ”Concorde's Last Flight” (2010) (executive producer)
• ”Virgin Galactic” (2010) (executive producer)
• ”Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day” (2011) (executive producer)
• ”Mermaids: The Body Found” (2011) (executive producer)
• ”MegaQuake: The Hour that Shook Japan” (2011) (executive producer)
• ”Tornado Rampage 2011” (2011) (executive producer)
• ”Engineering Connections” (2011) (executive producer)
• ”The Passionate Eye” (2011) (executive producer)
• Naked Science (2011) (executive producer – 1 episode)
• ”Children of 9/11” (2011) (executive producer)
• Seconds from Disaster (2011) (executive producer – 6 episodes)
• ”The 9/11 Tapes: Chaos in the Sky” (2012) (executive producer)
• I Shouldn’t Be Alive (2010-2012) (executive producer – 20 episodes)
• ”Infested! (2012) (executive producer)
• Nova (2013) (executive producer)
• ”Aliens: The Definitive Guide” (2013) (executive producer)
• ”Ultimate Warfare” (2012-2013) (executive producer)
• ”World’s Busiest Border Crossing” (2013) (executive producer)
• ”World’s Busiest Airport” (2013) (executive producer)
• ”JFK: The Lost Tapes” (2013) (executive producer)
• ”Jumbo: The Plane that Changed the World” (2014) (executive producer)
• ”Live from Space: Lap of the Planet” (2014) (executive producer)
• ”Astronauts: Houston We Have a Problem” (2014) (executive producer)
• ”Britain’s Wildest Weather (2014) (creative director)
• ”Battle of Britain” (2015) (creative director)
• ”Bermuda Triangle: The Definitive Guide” (2016) (executive producer)
• ”Pearl Harbour: The Accused (2016) (creative director)
• ”Animal Fight Night” (2016) (creative director)
• ”Don’t Tell the Doctor” (2017) (creative director)
• ”America in Color” (2017) (creative director)
• ”Hear No Evil” (2017) (creative director)
• ”American Monster” (2017) (creative director)
• ”Inside Balmoral” (2017) (creative director)
• ”Intruders” (2017) (creative director)
• ”World’s Greatest Mountains” (2018) (creative director)
• ”See No Evil” (2017-2018) (creative director)
• ”Under The Wire” (2018) (producer)

External links

• https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0109867/#director
• http://www.arrowmedia.com

References

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