Ursula Macfarlane

Ursula’s films have been shown at major festivals worldwide and have gained Emmy, BAFTA, Grierson, RTS, Broadcast, Mind Media and One World Media awards and nominations. She has recently completed a feature documentary for Netflix about the 1990s icon Anna Nicole Smith, due to premiere in spring 2023, and is in production on a feature documentary for Concordia (Summer of Soul).  The Lost Sons, an Emmy-nominated feature documentary for CNN Films which tells the story of a family mystery, premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival and has just launched on HBO Max/Discovery+.  Ursula’s BAFTA and Emmy-nominated feature documentaryUntouchable, about the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein, made with Academy Award-winning producer Simon Chinn, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on Hulu and BBC Two.  Previously, Ursula series-directed a 6-part series about the Washington Sniper, which premiered on Vice in the US and on Channel 4 in the UK. In 2019 she was nominated for the best single documentary BAFTA for the BBC Three feature documentary, One Deadly Weekend in America, telling the stories of the fatal shootings of seven young people over one weekend in America.  Other credits include the Netflix hostage-negotiation drama-documentary series Captive; West Side Stories: The Making of a Classic for BBC Two, Charlie Hebdo: Three Days that Shook Paris for More4 and France 3, Tsunami: Survivors’ Stories and The Life and Death of Karen Woo for ITV, Warwick Davis’s Big Night for BBC Two’s Modern Times, and Notes from the Inside with James Rhodes and the feature documentary Breaking Up With The Joneses for Channel 4, recently included in the Grierson Trust’s top documentaries of the last 50 years.