CLEARSTORY

AN INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION COMPANY MAKING
POWERFUL TELEVISION WITH A PURPOSE

ABOUT CLEARSTORY

ClearStory was founded in 2011 by Russell Barnes and Molly Milton. Over the last eight years, it has built a reputation for producing rigorously researched, thought-provoking and entertaining television and branded content. Working for a variety of broadcasters, we specialise in bringing complex subject matter and processes to life on screen, finding the story and resonance that engages a television audience or delivers a corporate message effectively and powerfully.

MEET THE TEAM

RUSSELL BARNES

Director

Russell Barnes has been directing documentaries for over 20 years, often in partnership with intellectual heavyweights such as Niall Ferguson, Richard Dawkins and David Reynolds. Credits include the Grierson-nominated history films Armistice and 1941 and the Man of Steel and the Bafta and Emmy award winner The Virtual Revolution for BBC2. Russell also directed Channel 4’s Broadcast Award-winning Genius of Charles Darwin, the CGI-driven global hit Extinct and the revisionist history series Empire.
MOLLY MILTON

Director

Molly Milton has been making award-winning documentaries for twenty years, specialising in landmark specialist factual science, history and technology series. Credits include the Bafta and Emmy award-winning series The Virtual Revolution for BBC2 and The Open University, a first draft history of the world wide web. Molly also directed Faith Schools Menace? for Channel 4, presented by Richard Dawkins, and series made directly for the US market. These include – Download: The True Story of the Internet, a four part series for Discovery presented by John Heilemann. Weird Connections for Discovery Science and Junkyard Wars for TLC.
ALEX BRISLAND

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

Alex Brisland has produced history, arts and science films for the BBC, Sky and Channel 4, and has won important commissions with major UK and US channels. He has been at ClearStory since 2015, in which time he has worked on the development and production of several successful series, including Oceans Apart: Art and the Pacific (3x60’), Utopia: In Search of the Dream (3x60’) and The Great Village Green Crusade (1x90’). He recently produced and directed Handmade in the Pacific (4x30’), a series of observational documentaries for BBC4, following the work of indigenous artists in Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and French Polynesia.
CLARE BURNS

Production Manager

Clare Burns spent three years at Uden Associates before leaving the nest for the freelance world, working for, amongst others, Science Pictures, Discovery Europe, Grain Media, Proudfoot TV and Twenty Twenty. She joined Clearstory as Production Manager on BBC4’s 3 part series Utopia: In Search of the Dream, and is currently Production Managing Clearstory’s latest slate of commissions.