Directed my first FA Cup game at Birmingham City FC for the BBC recently and loved it. 

The combination of dense fog and sun posed some challenges initially but our coverage was strong and thankfully it cleared up making for a very enjoyable afternoon.

 

Also directed my first women's match covering the National League Cup Final between Nottingham Forest and Stoke City. Great experience of working for Limitless Broadcast at their amazing remote production facility with a really great crew.

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Am delighted to now be working at Tottenham Hotspur FC, the football team I have supported all my life, on their pre/post match shows which go out on YouTube - fantastic team of people to work with and simply great fun - another dream come true!

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Directing the C2C Country & Western music festival for iMag at the Hydro in Glasgow was so much fun - great coverage from a brilliant video/camera crew but such good fun too - lots of laughs along the way and incredible feedback from so many of the (very freindly) artists. Great experience. Yeehah!!!

 

Lots of other exciting new projects have continued to come my way - "Nashville Meets London" was a fantastic and enjoyable series of C&W shows streamed live from Pizza Express, London - a really cool, intimate venue where a collaboration of some amazing country & western artists performed including Krisitan Bush, Jeff Cohen, Jade Helliwell, Kezia Gill, Ben Earle - a 5 camera shoot which was very well received by the client in the USA.

 

Other projects have included esports events, Wimbledon Tennis Championships, bare knuckle fighting championships (directing, not participating!), EFL Football, corporate events, award shows etc. It is certainly an eclectic mix of genres and my love of music is definitely the driving force where I find the creative opportunities so rewarding.

 

Other highlights over last couple of years have included opening ceremonies, live events, projection mapping, women's rugby, awards shows,  Ashes cricket pres, Gallagher Premiership Rugby pres as well as lots of lovely music gigs - I am very happy to be working on such a diverse and interesting range of shows.

 

The Who: Live at the Royal Albert Hall was yet another dream event and directing/cutting the band's acoustic set in such an iconic venue was really something special - the track  "Behind Blue Eyes" was broadcast on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on CBS, USA.​​​​​

 

Career highlights to date have been working with numerous major artists including Van Morisson, The Cure, Westlife, Yusuf Cat Stevens, Adele, Take That, Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Ed Sheehan etc as well as opening ceremonies & projection mapping events. My biggest achievement to date has been to direct, cut & script supervise the Rocky Horror Show live to 500 cinemas around the UK & Europe. Due to Covid, 5 cast members were forced to drop out and stand ins replaced them leading to all rehearsals (inc. our dress run) being cancelled. Fortunately,I had a really great crew on board and we we went live completely unscripted & unrehearsed but worked to a plan. Rocky Horror is complicated with a large cast and quite fast paced but with a totally positive and calm approach, the production was broadcast flawlessly and the long time show creative director described it as  "a complete triumph against ALL the odds". I am so proud of what we all achieved and grateful to work with such a conscientious , hard working, helpful and creative crew.

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The EFL Championship Football (ITV/IMG) and the Wimbledon Tennis Championships  (BBC/NEP) I direct is via the amazing SimplyLive technology that I love using - it's done remotely and is absolutely brilliant. If you don't know about it yet, you will soon - it's the future!

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Honoured to have edited for some major artists over past couple of years including Noel Gallagher, The Cure, The Who, Yungblud, Liam Gallagher, Ed Sheeran, Stereophonics etc - all filmed at the Royal Albert Hall. Amazing feedback on all of those.

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I have loved working on all the productions I have been involved in and have had some amazing feedback from my clients including this recent testimonial from Mike Edgar, former Head of Entertainment & Events at BBC Northern Ireland: 

 

"I have had the privilege of working with Phil Jennings on many occasions over almost ten years.

Phil has great skills as a director and  has turned out some amazing concerts and events as a valued member of our BBC production team not least of all ‘Van Morrison: Up On Cyprus Avenue’ for BBC NI and BBC4 (in my opinion one of the most significant live captures of Van in years). This was a production that could not be left to chance and Phil did not let us down! He is a true creative and an ultimate professional who cares greatly about his work and invests heavily in each and every production he is part of. I have found Phil to be calm and giving within the work environment, and quite honestly one of the most personable people I have worked with within a busy gallery environment. I would have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending Phil for any production. Quite simply he is a gifted, hard-working and very likeable person, and sometimes all three of these traits can be hard to find".

Mike Edgar - Head of Entertainment and Events, BBC Northern Ireland