Biography
Natalie Hewit is an award-winning director and producer who has been making prime-time documentaries and series for major terrestrial and international broadcasters for more than a decade. Her work has received widespread industry recognition and critical acclaim including an RTS Award for the BBC series Forensics: The Real CSI and nominations for a BAFTA and RTS Award for Channel 4’s Surviving Covid. Additionally, she received Grierson and Broadcast Award nominations for the BBC’s drama-doc, The Drug Trial: Emergency at the Hospital. With human narratives at their core, her projects have taken her to numerous remote and highly challenging locations. Her directorial debut saw her spend 3 months filming Antarctica: Ice Station Rescue at the Halley VI Research Station for the BBC's prestigious Horizon science series, which earned her a nomination for “Best Documentary” at the Broadcast Awards. Her most recent project, Endurance (w/t) marks her second visit to Antarctica, where her documentation of the expedition to find the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, in the toughest conditions on the planet, earned her Reach the World’s Walter Cronkite Award for Exploration and Storytelling. In March 2023, Oscar-winning directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi joined Natalie on the team to bring Endurance to audiences for National Geographic Documentary Films.
