We’re incredibly excited to announce our Amplify: Production Talent Cohort for 2026!
Amplify: Production Talent is an initiative for emerging production professionals to help elevate their careers and support networking.
The initiative offers the opportunity to connect with UK production company executives in the factual/documentary TV sector, and experience our Marketplace to enhance, widen their network, and learn more about the documentary industry.
In addition to the ongoing support of the BBC and Channel 4, this year we are delighted to announce the addition of ScreenSkills. The ScreenSkills team offers online sessions aimed at widening the career opportunities for participants.
Meet the 2026 cohort
Abinaya Rajendran
Abinaya is a shooting assistant producer and independent documentary filmmaker with a background in Biology and Science Communication.
She has worked across genres in broadcast documentary with companies including Curious Films, the BBC Science Unit, and Windfall Films, with credits including AI Confidential and The Sky at Night. It is here she has found greatest fulfilment while honing her skills in securing sensitive access, deep investigative research, and camera operation. Abinaya is drawn to urgent, grounded stories with the courage to expose corruption and celebrate individuals driving systemic change. Ultimately, she strives to make work that strengthens our collective connection to the natural world - and to one another.
Alice Stewart
Alice is an Assistant Producer working in documentaries, alumna of the Grierson Trust DocLab and aspiring director. Her two most recent projects are Musk: The Next Chapter for BBC Two and The Donald Trump Show for Channel 4. Alice is passionate about storytelling and the intersection of arts and advocacy. Before working in documentaries, Alice completed her master's degree in politics and then worked in the charity sector. Alice is drawn to projects that explore social history, politics and current affairs, with a focus on the powerful impact that sharing real stories can have on society.
Anjeli Caderamanpulle
Anjeli is a Glasgow-based Development and Casting Researcher. She started in scripted development at Pulse Films, progressing from Development Assistant to Junior Script Editor, scouting IP and assisting in writers rooms for HETV. She then made the leap into unscripted at Ricochet via TRC FormatLab, working across development, casting dating pilots for ITV and BBC Scotland, and developing entertainment formats including a digital offering for the BBC. She is currently a researcher for The Repair Shop on the Road. She's a devotee of the Real Housewives and Bravo, writing poetry and making zines about popular culture, watching every reality TV episode with a documentarian’s eye.
Chloe Bingham
Chloe is an Assistant Producer working across factual TV. Grierson Doc Lab: Development alum, her credits include working as a Development AP at Curious Films and Yahoo Creative Studios.
With experience spanning corporate, branded content and digital video production her other credits include: Digital AP on Britain’s Got Talent, Welfare Researcher on The Apprentice and AP in Sotheby’s internal video production team.
Having produced a few of her own shorts, Chloe also shoots and edits and is working towards being a Shooting Producer/Director as well as a Development Producer.
Claudia Mirabile
Claudia works across documentary and unscripted television in production, research and post-production. Originally from Italy and now based in London, her interest in filmmaking grew from a background in photography, graphic design and a curiosity about people, behaviour and the way we relate to the world around us.
She has worked on productions for Channel 4, Channel 5 and the BBC, supporting projects from development through to delivery, both in the office and on location. Drawn to documentaries that feel human, observational and socially aware, she is particularly interested in stories connected to psychology, identity, environment and everyday life.
Alongside production, Claudia continues to develop her own creative voice through documentary and visual storytelling, and is always looking to connect, collaborate and learn from others in the industry.
Eleanor Robinson
Eleanor’s work spans across Researcher and Production Assistant roles in documentary, alongside Assistant Directing in fiction. Her most recent projects include the documentaries Broken English and Pink and Green, and the factual drama Dirty Business.
Eleanor has a background in conservation, training in Wildlife Recovery with Ambios Ltd. Her ambitions lie in producing documentaries exploring humanity and nature, sourcing and developing stories that connect with climate change and the communities and individuals most affected by it. She is committed to better understanding how documentary storytelling and distribution can educate, engage and empower audiences to be a part of finding solutions.
Neo Michael
Neo is a London-based Archive Researcher working in feature documentary. Their credits include Channel 4’s Molly vs The Machines and Asif Kapadia’s 2073, with upcoming projects for Sky Arts and Sony Music.
They specialise in sourcing and licensing archive from around the world, working across documentaries focused on public figures, culture, music, politics and sport. Their work involves collaborating closely with editorial teams to identify material that strengthens narrative and adds historical texture to a project.
Neo holds a degree in Film and Television from the University of Edinburgh, where their work explored identity, memory and documentary storytelling. They are interested in developing their career further within documentary production, building on their experience working in archive.
Sam Finlay
Sam is a researcher from Leeds, with an eclectic mixture of experience in Children’s, True Crime and factual entertainment genres. He started his career in 2023 as a trainee at True North, and since then has gone on to work on Junior Bake Off, Justice Gone Bad, Antique’s Roadshow and the BAFTA nominated Educating Yorkshire.
Amplify: Production Talent is supported by BBC, Channel 4 and ScreenSkills
