Name Sue Bourne Role Film-maker | Movies Jig Children Holly Starecki | |
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Nominations British Academy Television Award for Best Single Documentary Similar People John Smithson, Henry Singer, Tom Junod, Patrick Doyle | ||
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Sue Bourne, is a Scottish documentary maker, who founded and runs Wellpark Productions. The independent production company notable films include My Street, Fabulous Fashionistas, Mum and Me and Jig.
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Early life and background
Sue was brought up in Ayr on the west coast of Scotland. Her father was a civil servant and her mother was a stay at home mum who later became the subject of one of Sue's films in Mum and Me. She attended Edinburgh University and studied Politics. Sue's partner for 16 years was the Polish filmmaker Witold Starecki, who died in 2011, the couple had one child Holly.
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Critical response
In 2013 Broadcast Magazine named her one of the top directors in the country with 'Fabulous Fashionistas' saying "a new Sue Bourne documentary always feels like a treat in the schedules... In classic Bourne style, a simple concept became a hook to explore the minutiae of everyday lives and the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, never shying away from the frightening aspects of mortality but ultimately celebrating the colorful lives of a group of women determined to accept and embrace the moment".