Born in Kington, Herefordshire, Chris embarked on his career at the tender age of 16 as an apprentice on documentaries and, as a young man, travelled as a cameraman to South Africa, Angola, Zanzibar, Cyprus, Vietnam and Tibet, often in perilous circumstances. As a director of photography on feature films his list of credits is astounding: Kes, Local Hero, Angel, Michael Collins, The Reader, Notes on a Scandal to name but a few. As well as a long and fruitful collaboration with Ken Loach he has also worked, among others, with Stephen Frears, Roland Joffé (winning Oscars for Cinematography on The Killing Fields and The Mission), Neil Jordan, Bill Forsyth and Stephen Daldry as well as directing five feature films himself.
CHRIS MENGES
FRANCINE STOCK
Francine has presented radio and television programmes on current affairs and the arts from BBC2's Newsnight to Radio 4's Front Row. From 2004 to 2021, she was the main presenter of The Film Programme. She has also published two novels, A Foreign Country and Man-Made Fibre, as well as a book on cinema, In Glorious Technicolor.
