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Deborah Perkin is an experienced and award-winning documentary filmmaker who has worked as director, series producer, executive producer, and development head in television, radio and online. She embraces the quick, the dead and the quirky, from criminal psychology on BBC1 in My Son the Killer, to archaeology on BBC2 in China’s Terracotta Army to music on BBC4 in Quincy Jones: The Many Lives of Q. Deborah left the BBC after 15 years, to make Bastards, a feature length independent documentary, in association with the Film Agency for Wales. She and her collaborator Nora Fakim shared a room in a Casablanca slum for eight weeks, living amongst their film subjects – feisty single mothers fighting for justice for their outcast children, using Morocco’s radical new laws. Since 2015, she has chaired the Moroccan Children’s Trust and is currently a Trustee of Cardiff Women’s Aid. She is also a Welsh government-appointed member of the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, (BBNPA).

Filmography

Out of the Doll’s House: Breaking Free (1988)
Taking Liberties: Trooping the Colour (1989)
Taking Liberties: Positive Discrimination (1989)
Taking Liberties: Cold Comfort (1990)
Children of the Fire: 40 Minutes (1991)
Visible Harm: Dispatches (1992)
Call to Prayer (1993)
Breach of Faith: Everyman (1993)
Labour of Eve: Mary’s Story (1995)
Labours of Eve: Joan’s Story (1995)
The Good Doctor: NHS Pioneer (1996)
Roman Soldiers to Be: Timewatch (2001)
Child of Our Time: Active or Idle (2002)
The Mystery of the Iron Bridge: Timewatch (2002)
Rocket and Its Rivals: Timewatch (2003)
My Son the Killer (2003)
Battlefield Britain: The Battle for Wales (2004)
Britain’s Lost Coliseum: Timewatch (2005)
Kew Palace Revealed (2006)
China’s Terracotta Army (2007)
Quincy Jones: The Many Lives of Q (2008)
Just Read (2009)
Ban The Boss (2010)
The Man Who Discovered Egypt (2012)
Bastards (2014)
Welsh Women in World War One (2016)