Natalie Hewit

Natalie Hewit is an Emmy award-winning director and producer based in the UK. She has been making prime-time documentaries for major terrestrial and international broadcasters—including the BBC, Netflix, and National Geographic—for more than a decade. Her work has received widespread industry recognition and critical acclaim including winning "Best Documentary Program" at the Broadcast Digital Awards; "Best Director - Documentary" at the prestigious Alliance of Women in Media “Gracie" Awards; and a Royal Television Society Award for Best Specialist Factual Program. She has also been nominated for a Grierson Award and a BAFTA for the Channel 4 documentary Surviving Covid. With human narratives at their core, her projects have taken her to numerous remote and highly challenging locations including an expedition into the Canadian Yukon for the BBC series Operation Goldrush with Dan Snow. Her directorial debut saw her spend three months filming Antarctica: Ice Station Rescue at the Halley VI Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf for the BBC's prestigious Horizon science series, which earned her a nomination for “Best Documentary” at the Broadcast Awards. Her most recent project, Endurance, marked her second visit to Antarctica, where she documented the expedition to find the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship in the toughest conditions on the planet. In March 2023, Oscar-winning co-directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi joined Natalie on the team to bring Endurance to audiences for National Geographic Documentary Films. It premiered at London Film Festival before a cinema run across the UK. Natalie’s work has gained multiple five-star reviews and been deemed “Essential” by The Financial Times and “haunting and powerful” by The Guardian. She is a member of BAFTA and The Explorers Club, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and has served on awards juries for the Director’s Guild of America and BAFTA.

Language spoken: English

 

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