Professor

Education and Mentoring has been at the heart of Roy’s career – as a producer, as a mentor and now as Professor at Baruch College, CUNY, where he teaches a new course 21st Documentary, How to Watch, How to Produce, supported by a glittering cast of Oscar-winning filmmakers as guests. The bug for education first flourished with Roy creating a run of major series on the impact of education, and the power of culture to change our world.

He sees education and filmmaking as different aspects of Storytelling and making a difference. His passion at this stage in his career is in developing talents, bringing new voices into the creative industries, and exploring contemporary ideas with students to encourage critical and original thinking.

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Key Credits

TEACHING

  • 21st Documentary: How to Watch, How to Produce. Top Reviews.

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  • Consultant to the formation of an in-house production unit

  • Led workshops on doc development and format ideation

  • Mentor/tutor for the European documentary academy

  • Helped set up social enterprise servicing the aspirations of underprivileged young people through entertainment, workshops & internships with events at the iconic Roundhouse

  • 20 years on the board of youth non-profit. Mentored young people of colour to join the board and created projects to help develop the talents of the at-risk youth, including Ballet Changed My Life

TRANSFORMATIONAL EDUCATION STORYTELLING AND FILMMAKING

  • Award-winning doc series with inspirational teachers including Chuck D, 50 Cent, Oliver Stone, Alastair Campbell, Robert Winston, Michael Vaughan, engaging young people who had abandoned education. UK, USA, South Africa, Holland, China

  • Award-winning series following a brave head teacher’s literacy experiment

  • Follow up series on an experiment in cutting edge teach of school maths

  • Unique experiment for 150 at-risk youth, transformed by ballet, culminating in a performance of Romeo & Juliet with Birmingham Royal Ballet. Front-page headlines in The Guardian. Transformational principles adopted by the DCMS.

  • Global journey for Liverpool schoolkids seeing the power of STEM education through the challenge of creating a massive firework display for the City of Culture festival.

  • Changed the face of British music education by encouraging citizens to donate to the greatest instrument

  • Demystifying Philosophy with the acclaimed thinker

  • Stellar ratings for limited series with the iconic archaeologist

  • Ground-breaking series with writer Jacques Peretti

  • He has worked with the Open University to produce a documentary series for the Sociology syllabus.