Dominic Savage
Dominic Savage’s latest revealing look at contemporary Britain is Love + Hate, a powerful inter-racial love story set in the North of England. Uncompromising, trenchant and passionate, Love + Hate is Dominic’s first cinema feature, following a successful TV career in both documentary and drama.
After graduating from the NFTS in 1990, Dominic focused on documentary filmmaking, making a number of films for Channel 4, including Seaside Organist, the Grierson Award-nominated The Outsiders, Rough Males and The Complainers, for Cutting Edge. One of the most prolific and highly regarded documentary drama makers working in the UK today, he has also made several films for the BBC, including Memories Are Made of This, for the Picture This strand.
In 2000, Savage made a move into drama. His BBC Drama Nice Girl won the BAFTA Award for New Director Fiction 2001 and was also nominated for Best Single Drama and Innovation at the BAFTA Television Awards 2001. When I Was 12 (BBC Screen Two), followed in 2001, winning Dominic the BAFTA Award for Best Single Film. His next film, the highly acclaimed Out of Control (2002, BBC Screen Two) won the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival 2002 and the Royal Television Society Award, and Broadcast awards for Best Single Film 2003. Dominic is both writer and director of his most recent television drama for the BBC - Born Equal starring Colin Firth.
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