IN COLD BLOOD

 

IN COLD BLOOD – 90 MIN FEATURE - DARLOW SMITHSON / ITV – DIRECTOR: MARCUS PLOWRIGHT

WINNER: INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARDS: BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS DOCUMENTARY 2021

NOMINATED: GRIERSON DOCUMENTARY AWARDS: BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS DOCUMENTARY 2021 

NOMINATED: ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY: BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS DOCUMENTARY 2021 

This new 90-minute feature-length documentary for ITV’s Bafta-winning Exposure strand examines the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history. In the 1970s, a new treatment for haemophilia known as Factor VIII was prescribed on the NHS. It infected over 1,300 people with HIV and more than 4,000 people with Hepatitis C.

In the same week the long public inquiry looking into this scandal re-opens, In Cold Blood offers a window into a tragedy which killed more people than Grenfell, Hillsborough, 7/7 and the Birmingham bombings combined. Yet its scale and impact has until now been relatively understated in Britain.

With access to hundreds of previously unexamined documents from inside the government, In Cold Blood  explores the full story behind the scandal, and investigates claims that warnings were systematically ignored and subsequently covered up. In the wake of Covid-19, this landmark film tells some shocking truths about our Health Service’s past – at a time when, perhaps more than ever, we are looking for it to function properly.

I have always loved to cut and will always love to cut… so much so that I have dedicated over 30 years to honing the craft of editing.

During this time I have won an Emmy award, a Grierson British documentary award, an RTS award, a Broadcast award and recently a Critics Choice award.

I have also cut 2 x BAFTAs nominated  documentaries, an RTS nominated documentary series and 8 Grierson nominated films across 5 different categories.

I edit imaginative, forward thinking films to critical acclaim and have been acknowledged for my work with channels such as Netflix, Apple TV, Disney+, Sky Documentaries, BBC, Channel 4 and ITV.

To take something that pre exists, carefully carve it up, reshape it and create something totally new and unique, sends my imagination into overdrive…

“Once you unleash a film out of it’s trap, it should have an unstoppable gravitational force to it.”

The Cutter