MANDY CHANG, Head of Storyville & Factual Commissions, BBC, UK

Mandy Chang is the Head of the pioneering and much-loved international feature documentary strand BBC Storyville, which has supported over 800 films, with credits like ‘Blackfish’, ‘Man on Wire’ and ‘OJ Made in America’ and more recently Oscar nominated/shortlisted ‘Collective’, ‘The Mole Agent’ & ‘Welcome to Chechnya’.

Mandy has overseen many notable Storyvilles, ‘President’, ‘One Child Nation’, ‘The Mole: Infiltrating North Korea’, ‘Misha and the Wolves’, ‘The Hijacker who Vanished: The Mystery of DB Cooper’, ‘The Trial of Ratko Mladic’ and the films of a number of first-time feature doc makers: ‘Into the Storm’, ‘Locked In’, ‘What we Believe’ & ‘8-Bar: The Story of Grime’

She was also Head of Arts & Music for ABC and a filmmaker who brought acclaimed films like ‘The Mona Lisa Curse’ to the screen. She is a champion of independent filmmaking and of diverse and creatively authored storytelling.

INSTITUTE PROFILE

BBC Storyville is the flagship feature documentary strand for the BBC. Storyville partners with world-class filmmakers in bringing the world’s best feature documentary stories to festival, cinema and television audiences.

Bringing fearless, provocative and engrossing films to broad audiences, BBC Storyville has a reputation for producing award-winning, critically acclaimed titles and has been home to more than 700 films from over 70 countries.

The strand is run by Mandy Chang, who has delivered to the BBC series such as ‘The Fourth Estate’, ‘Jonestown’, ‘The Mole: Infiltrating North Korea’ and many single films.