Roland Denning

Roland has more than 25 year’s experience working in film and television, having shot more than 120 documentaries and dramas for independent producers and major broadcasters.

For the last 5 years he has worked with AWR as a writer, director and lighting cameraman on both documentary and dramatised film projects, mainly in the health sector.  Recent projects have included a series of shorts dramas for Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as part of their Quality Improvement Campaign and a number of documentary projects for the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.

His experience however covers everything from avant-garde films to corporate videos, documentaries to film drama and television, news to rock promos. Between 1994 and 2001 he ran metamedia, a Soho based production company which specialised in arts-based shorts which Roland wrote and shot, including the experimental documentary Homing which was premiered in the London Film Festival and was later shown on Channel 4.  Following this, he produced and shot Gift for BBC2′s Sound on Film Series and, more recently Resistor – for BBC2′s Dance for the Camera.

Roland has extensive experience in producing multimedia products and has worked as a consultant and lecturer on digital technology for a range of organisations including the BBC.

From 1980 to 1989 he was based in Cardiff working on a wide range of programmes for S4C independents, BBC Wales and HTV.

In 2009 Roland completed his first novel  The Beach Beneath the Pavement.  Set in a London very close in time and space to our own, ‘The Beach Beneath the Pavement’ is an extravagant philosophical satire about how we make sense of a world where no-one believes in anything. It’s about the lost or corrupted dreams of the sixties and seventies, dissent, experimental theatre, paranoia, conspiracy theory, drugs, art, new age panaceas, surveillance, therapy, the media, computers, chaos theory, money and the power of fiction.

The series of short animations, written and produced by Roland as part of the marketing strategy for the book have become hugely popular.