Unscripted producer Flicker Productions has been crowned ‘emerging indie of the year’ at the annual Broadcast Awards.
The London-based indie was recognised for shows such as ITV doc Kate Garraway: Finding Derek, Channel 4’s Kathy Burke: Money Talks and The Truth About Stop and Search, and BBC1 daytime format Dom Digs In.
Flicker’s diversity was also noted, with 40% of staff from an under-represented background and women making up 85% of the team, including three department heads.
The indie, set up by Colleen Flynn and Nick Underhill in 2016, is now eyeing a move into entertainment.
The shortlist also included Yorkshire’s Air TV, Pat Younge and Narinder Minhas’ Cardiff Productions, factual indie Doc Hearts, Mama Youth commercial arm Licklemor Productons and former Twofour duo Melanie Leach and Andrew Mackenzie’s South Shore Productions.
Elsewhere at the awards, Line of Duty and Vigil producer World Productions was named Indie of the Year, beating 72 Films, Bad Wolf, Hungry Bear Media, Monkey and Tuesday’s Child.
Programming wins included Wish/Art’s BBC1 doc 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room (specialist factual); The Forge’s C4 drama Help (single drama) and Red Production Company's It's a Sin (drama series), Expectation’s Amazon Prime show Clarkson’s Farm (popular factual) and 72 Films’ Nat Geo series 9/11: One Day In America (documentary series).
Sandpaper Films’ C4 series Surviving Covid was named best lockdown programme.
For full details of all the winners, click here
