Furnace TV

MANAGING DIRECTOR

A graduate of the London School of Economics, Lucy began in television working for the award-winning documentary filmmaker Roger Graef, before moving to indy producer Diverse Production.  She stayed there for nearly five years, working her way up from production assistant to production manager on a variety of factual programming for both the BBC and Channel 4.

After Diverse Lucy spent six years at McDougall Craig where she developed and co-produced the inaugural Channel 4 Political Awards in 1999.  From McDougall Craig she moved across to the Commercial Affairs department at Channel 4 where she stayed for the next nine years.  She was finally persuaded to quit the Channel in mid-2008 to set up Furnace.

Away from her desk, Lucy has lectured several times at the National Film and Television School on production management, as well as giving presentations to young independent filmmakers at the Documentary Filmmakers Group in London.  She participated in an outreach program for media students in the UK and served on the Executive Committee of the Production Managers’ Association for five years.  More recently Lucy has twice sat on the Advisory Committee for the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, and has produced several sessions for the Festival including the 2007 Worldview Address delivered by the novelist and broadcaster Lionel Shriver, and in 2008 a session called Women Know your Place, about women in television.