Mark Jordan

Award winning freelance producer/director with a strong track record in high rating, popular current affairs and documentaries for BBC, C4, C5 and ITV1. I'm a great story teller - whether a one off documentary, ITV's Tonight Programme or a Dispatches investigation. Plenty of experience as P/D with big name talent too - from Eddie Izzard to Laura Kuenssberg! See video taster clip links in CV.

Recent films include ITV's 999: A National Emergency? A frontline investigation with ITN's UK editor, Paul Brand, into deaths caused by ambulances taking hours rather than minutes to arrive. VIewing clip link: https://youtu.be/Ov6NfUzQk-8
Also documentary for ITV - Searching for Patient Zero - Britain's Aids Tragedy. After 40 years, this powerful film reveals the life, friends and story of the man, until now, known as 'patient zero' - viewing link https://youtu.be/ILx2xwxsHTI

Other prime time films include, Harry and Meghan - The Week that Shook the Royals (ITV). An investigative Covid ITV Tonight Special: Care Homes - The Long Year Alone. An earlier Covid film reached an audience of 3.7 million. Over at BBC World my one off documentary - The Virus that Killed the Jumbo Jet traversed the planet as pilots parked up the iconic yet unwanted 747 jets in desert scrapyards . Show Reel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loNS9y_iWCc&list=FLH_A-4uY4thTn3ZkFYkXUHw

I'm a great story teller - whether its Air Force One - Inside the President's Jet for ViacomCBS, HS2 - Death of the High Speed Express for ITV's Tonight programme... or a fast turnaround on the fall of PM Boris for ITN/ITV.

I'm primarily a self shooting P/D but can also produce, shoot and present some of my films. I started as an ITN correspondent and went on to P/D on countless episodes of ITV's flagship Tonight programme. I have P/D credits on everything from C4's Dispatches to self shot items for The One Show. I was the original P/D on BBC1's Fake Britain series - helping shape a format that has pulled upto five million viewers an episode!

I spent over ten years on staff at ITN and ITV, but now enjoy the range and variety of being freelance. My films are strong in structure and story telling. I'm a powerful script writer - whether for Sir Trevor McDonald or Eddie Izzard!

On location I'm an imaginative director - adept at getting the very best from craft cameramen and talent. On the right project I'm happy to self shoot. Solo assignments have taken me up Everest, across Borneo and a fascinating three weeks in a London intensive care unit for BBC1. I shoot on Canon XF305, C300 and FS7. Always happy to get upto speed on other gear.

My career started as an on screen reporter at ITN. As a foreign correspondent I covered major global conflicts and disasters - including Afghanistan, Kosovo and Hurricane Katrina. Within ITN I crossed from news into documentaries and factual.

At ITN Factual I devised and series produced Cruel World - a 5x30min investigative series for Five on the global trade in wildlife and animal cruelty. It won 'best factual series' at the prestigious Genesis Awards in Hollywood. An undercover investigation into Cambodia's child sex industry helped change UK law on sex predators. Back at Tonight my 'Beat the Property Slump' two parter won some of the highest figures in the show's long history.

An eccentric, humorous one off doc I made for ITV - Routemaster: Goodbye London - Hello World! told the story of the iconic old double deckers being shipped off to new homes around the world. It won an RTS nomination. In complete contrast, my undercover investigation exposing Brits using child brothels in Cambodia became parliamentary evidence that led to tougher laws.

Basically, I just love to tell a good story! Also... happy to offer great rates to great charities keen to tell their story. Please take a look at my P/D show tape at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loNS9y_iWCc&list=FLH_A-4uY4thTn3ZkFYkXUHw



Thanks for your interest.

Mark Jordan