Anthony Wall (series Editor)
Anthony Wall has been with Arena for most of the strand’s 30 years, first as a director and since 1985 as Series Editor. As director, producer and executive producer, Wall has personally won three BAFTA awards, three Royal Television Society awards, the Prix Italia, an International Emmy and the Special Medallion at Telluride.
Recently Anthony has produced Arena: Bacon’s Arena, a portrait of the painter, and Arena: Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus, which received a nomination for International Critics’ Prize at the IDFA in 2004. He co-produced the multi-award winning No Direction Home - Bob Dylan for Arena directed by Martin Scorsese in 2005. In the last year Anthony has continued to oversee a diverse output of arts films at Arena: the strand profiled the contemporary media phenomenon Pete Doherty, as well as the lives of the Saints and the history of popular Radio Four soap opera The Archers.
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