Miles Blayden-Ryall

agent: Natalie Spanier - natalie@sternwild.com

Miles is a BAFTA, Emmy and multi-award nominated documentary filmmaker, who makes unique and gripping films that both attract huge global audiences (Bad Sport: Need for Weed, Netflix) and receive critical acclaim and recognition (Life and Death Row: The Mass Execution, BBC2).

The hallmark of Miles’ work is taking the audience on a journey to understand why people do the things they do by exploring his subject’s underlying psychology, as well as the wider social and cultural context within which the story occurs (The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist, Netflix).

Miles is motivated by his ambition to make thematically complex and sophisticated films that challenge opinions and conventions, but that still draw people in and keep them watching. His work skilfully weaves together layered and unexpected themes that add to enrich the story and the characters within it (Silverback, BBC2).

Miles’ work includes thought provoking, archive driven retrospectives that cover hugely sensitive and important topics (Sex on Trial, Channel 4) as well as reactive unfolding actuality with challenging access requiring high levels of sensitivity and experience. (Cutting Edge: Meet the Police Commissioner, Channel 4). Happy to work with crews or to self-shoot, Miles combines cinematic scale with intimacy to produce powerful, authentic and emotional stories which are beautifully realised.

He consistently aims to push the edges of creativity to find innovative ways of storytelling that deliver on his clear and distinctive vision for each project. Miles has expertise in directing premium drama recognition (MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, Netflix) and he has recently commissioned cinematic animation to tell the retrospective story of a contributor who lost his family archive in a housefire (Silverback, BBC2).

Often by the end of one of Miles’ films the audience have discovered a story that they may not have expected to find.

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