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About Me

For more than a decade, I have worked behind the camera, producing, directing, shooting, and edit producing prime-time content for some of the world's biggest broadcasters and platforms, including Netflix, BBC, National Geographic, Channel 4, Disney+, Sky, ITV, Apple TV, and Discovery.

From hard-hitting, access-driven observational documentaries to high-energy reality formats, dating shows, and specialist factual programming, I have worked across almost every genre. I thrive on exploring diverse subjects and bringing compelling stories to life, but my true passion lies in adventure, expedition, and challenge-led storytelling.I am equally comfortable working alongside celebrity and presenter-led talent as I am embedding within ordinary communities - I pride myself on building genuine relationships and creating an environment where people feel comfortable sharing their stories.

My career has taken me to some of the most extreme and breathtaking locations on the planet. I've embedded with elite U.S. military units, including the Navy SEALs and EOD teams, documenting their gruelling explosives training and highly secretive selection processes. I've scaled dangerous Alpine peaks with Steve Backshall, lived alongside First Nations Cree communities in the Arctic, and camped in the Great Karoo with Bear Grylls.

I became the first female director to film in the Yukon gold mines for Discovery's flagship series Gold Rush, spent months living aboard fishing vessels in some of the world's harshest seas, including the Arctic Ocean, and lived on an uninhabited island off the coast of South America to film humpback whale behaviour never before captured on camera.

Other adventures have taken me inside the crater of one of Iceland's most infamous active volcanoes, deep into the remote mountains of northern China, and across the islands of the South China Sea with Ed Stafford.

Extreme environments are not my only fascination. I've also gained extraordinary access to Michelin-starred restaurants, exploring the minds of the chefs behind the creations; Formula 1 pit lanes; major police investigation units, including forensic, firearms, and PoLSA search teams; ambulance services and hospital environments; remote fishing communities; and the homes of ordinary people facing extraordinary, life-changing events.

 

Before moving into television, I spent more than eight years working for Elton John, where I was part of the management team supporting artists including Ed Sheeran, Lily Allen, and James Blunt.

Away from the camera, I’ve always loved an active lifestyle, and now live by the sea on the South Coast, where I take full advantage of the everything the unique stretch of coastline has to offer.

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​I bring my all to every project - experience, energy and an enthusiasm for capturing interesting and exciting content.

Skills / Permits

  • Valid I Visa / and O2

  • All current broadcast cameras, prime lenses and MIV lighting set-ups

  • Advanced and Adventure PADI (Advanced diving qualification)

  • Extensive helicopter and ropes camera work

  • Underwater camera experience

  • HET Qualified (Hostile environment training)

  • Extensive extreme environment experience (Long periods at sea, desert, jungle, remote wilderness, mountains, polar)

  • DBS checked

  • Vaccinated against Hep A & B, Diphtheria, Typhoid, Tetanus, Rabies, Yellow Fever 

  • Sea survival trained 

  • Recce reporting (editorial and logistic)

  • Experienced boat driver

  • Off-road motorcycle 

  • Full motorcycle and car license 

Anna Collins Producer
Anna Collins Edit Producer
Anna Collins Producer
Anna Collins Edit Producer
Anna Collins Director
Anna Collins Director
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