Anthony Wall

Anthony Wall is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose lifelong contribution to cinema has been honoured with the Special Medallion of the Telluride film festival. He has for over 30 years been a director, then Series Editor & Executive Producer of the BBC's flagship arts documentary strand Arena, voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time. Directors and producers with whom he has worked on the strand include Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. The subjects of his films are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures in 20th and 21st centuries, from Slim Gaillard to Amy Winehouse, from Edward Said to Eric Hobsbawm and from Jean Genet to V S Naipaul.