Louise Osmond & Jerry Rothwell
Louise Osmond studied modern history at Oxford and joined ITN’s Editorial Trainee program after graduation. She worked in the Europe Bureau covering events in Brussels, Paris and Rome and as a foreign desk editor in London before becoming a documentary director. Her recent work includes three feature-length documentaries: BLITZ: LONDON’S FIRESTROM, short listed for the 2006 Grierson Award for Best Historical Documentary, THE SEARCH FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE, and LOOKING FOR VICTORIA. In addition to numerous credits, Osmond also co-founded the production company World’s End Pictures. Jerry Rothwell is a documentary filmmaker whose work includes the award-winning feature docs, DONOR UNKNOWN, which focuses on a sperm donor and his many offspring, HEAVY LOAD, about a group of people with learning disabilities who form a punk band, and DEEP WATER (co-directed with Louise Osmond), which details Donald Crowhurst's ill-fated voyage in the 1968 round the world yacht race. Most recently his film TOWN OF RUNNERS, released theatrically in the UK in April 2012, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival.