Anoop Pandhal

Background

About Anoop Pandhal

Anoop secured her first broadcast commission as a director in 2007 after pitching and winning Channel4’s Sheffield Documentary Festival New Directors Scheme. The Murder of Billie Jo: Sion Jenkins Story was broadcast on Channel Four in August 2008. Over two million people watched her next film The Gatwick Baby: Abandoned at Birth when it was shown at 9pm on BBC1 in April 2010. A self-shot documentary, it told the story of 24-year-old Steven Hydes who was abandoned at birth. Now a father himself he sets off on a journey to find the mother who left him. The film was bought by BBC world wide. The Boy Who Wasn’t There is Anoop’s third documentary in which she spent four years (uncommissioned) filming with the family of Sam Hallam, wrongly convicted of murder, up until his acquittal and release in May 2012. While living in Tuscany, Anoop produced a C4 Dispatches about the immigration crisis in Europe and The Secret Life of a Bus Garage for ITV ("a lovely film" The Guardian) As Location Producer Anoop spent months solo in India setting up series 1,2 and 3 of The Real Marigold Hotel for the BBC. More recently Anoop made a number of short tribute films with the bereaved families of Grenfell as their commemorations for the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. She also produced C4 Dispatches "Grenfell: Did the Fire Brigade Fail."