Louise Bray

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Louise Bray

Little Bird Films

Co-Founder and Managing Director


Speaker Biography

Louise is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Little Bird Films. She has spent over 20 years developing and producing / directing a wide range of factual content for both the UK and international market.

A graduate of Channel 4’s FT2 training scheme in 2001, Louise worked for some of the major production indies in London before joining the BBC in Bristol in 2003. Specialising in both popular and specialist factual, as well as foreign filming, Louise’s production credits include ‘Football Stories’ for Channel 4, ‘Private Life of a Masterpiece’ for BBC2, ‘BBC Young Musician’ for BBC FOUR, ‘Gareth Thomas and the Battle at Mametz’ (a WW1 special) for BBC1 and ‘Manolo The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards’ (a feature-length documentary about the iconic shoe designer Manolo Blahnik) for Netflix.

More recently, she has Series Produced the popular BBC3 / BBC1 Wales series ‘Hayley Goes’ and is currently overseeing the new production ‘Nurses’ (working title) for BBC3 / BBC Wales.

As part of the BBC Factual Development team in Cardiff, Louise was responsible for originating and developing a large number of Specialist and Popular Factual content – she originated and developed to commission the ground-breaking, blue-chip, feature-length docs ‘Egypt’s Lost Cities’ and ‘Rome’s Lost Empire’, both of which she went on to Produce for BBC1 primetime and Discovery Channel. Louise left the BBC in 2014 and set up Little Bird Films with Tammy Kennedy in 2018.

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