Michael Samuels (director)

Michael Samuels is British television director, producer and writer.[1]

He directed Any Human Heart for which he won a BAFTA,[2] and in 2018 he won an International Emmy for Man in an Orange Shirt.[3] He also won a Royal Television Society Award for The Curse of Steptoe.[1][4] Other works include The Falklands Play,[2] The Vice,[1] The Last Days of Lehman Brothers,[1] Mrs. Mandela,[1] The Fear,[5] Black Work,[6] and Close To Me.[7]

Samuels directed The Windermere Children,[8] broadcast in the UK on the BBC on 27 January 2020, about the child refugees who survived the concentration camps and were taken to the English Lakes District in an attempt to rehabilitate them.[9] The film won the Prix Europa Award for Best European Television Movie of the year 2020,[10] and was nominated for a BAFTA in 2021.[11]

  1. ^ a b c d e "BBC Writers Room – Michael Samuels". BBC. Archived from the original on 6 January 2012.
  2. ^ a b "The director who beat The Promise to a Bafta". www.thejc.com.
  3. ^ Morfoot, Addie (20 November 2018). "International Emmy Awards: U.K.'s 'Man In an Orange Shirt,' Israel's 'Nevsu,' Spain's 'Money Heist' Among Winners". Variety.
  4. ^ "Royal Television Society Awards 2008". Royal Television Society. Archived from the original on 8 February 2015.
  5. ^ "The Fear". World Productions.
  6. ^ "Black Work". TVGuide.com.
  7. ^ Ravindran, Manori (10 August 2020). "Connie Nielsen, Christopher Eccleston Set for 'Close to Me' Series From NENT Studios U.K. (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.
  8. ^ "BBC Two - The Windermere Children". BBC.
  9. ^ Lewis, Tim (5 January 2020). "From Nazi camps to the Lake District: the story of the Windermere children". The Observer.
  10. ^ "PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Movie of the Year 2020" (PDF). Prix Europa. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  11. ^ "2021 Television Single Drama". awards.bafta.org.