NATIONAL TELEVISION AWARDS NOMINATED FILMMAKERS:
specialising in documentary, educational films, and film score composition
ABOUT
Brightmoon Media has been producing films for a decade and the owner and director Roger Appleton has been making films for over twenty years with in excess of thirty broadcast credits to his name and more recently two major feature documentaries that have been sold world wide.
During this period Brightmoon Media has developed a working relationship with Evolutionary Films who have acted as sales agents for Roger's most recent productions, including "Looking for Lennon" which was nominated for Documentary of the Year in the National Film and Television Awards (2019).
In a business model with emphasis on sustainable production Brightmoon Media has a working relationship with Higher Education making more that 50 films in the last five years delivering academic content at broadcast standard including one hour documentaries shot in Australia, Tenerife and around the UK. We have, where possible, a commitment to employing people from the Merseyside area while maintaining links with business partners across the UK.
Brightmoon Media has a strong commitment to equal opportunities and promotes this in our working ethic and in the content of our films.
ROGER APPLETON - FILM-MAKER
Roger has been making films for over 20 years. From pop videos to TV documentaries and shorts through to factual feature length film production, Roger has experience as a director, producer and can shoot and edit .
His extensive journalistic experience in making factual programmes means he has a wide range of skills in getting the best out of all sorts of contributors, including internationally successful musicians and actors, high profile politicians, artists, and cultural commentators. Roger has had great success interviewing people who are particularly vulnerable such as the elderly and socially excluded. Give him folk to extract a story from and he's happy.
DAVID BEDFORD
Producer
A nationally and internationally renowned Beatles Historian, David was Associate Producer and historical consultant on Looking for Lennon. He has since been working as a producer to bring a number of documentary films to market.
DARREN BRADY
Darren has been working in film production for 15 years and has produced films in the UK and Africa.
PETER GOODWIN
Peter has over 20 years experience in film production and is fluent on most of the current edit systems and is a trained AVID instructor.
ALEX HOLBOURN
Music Production
Alex has been a musical composer for most of his adult life and has worked on a deverse selection of music for Brihtmoon Media and has produced soundtracks for both documentaries and educational films.