Christopher Hird

Christopher Hird is the founder and managing director of Dartmouth Films (www.dartmouthfilms.com) , which has pioneered new ways of funding, producing and distributing documentaries in the UK.  A former investment analyst in the City, he worked as a journalist on the Economist,  Daily Mail, New Statesman and Sunday Times, where he was the editor of Insight. He then became a TV reporter for Channel 4  and the BBC and co-founded one of the UK's first independent production companies, Fulcrum TV, before starting Dartmouth Films, whose work has included producing and distributing the last four of John Pilger's films.  He is a former managing editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a patron of the Grierson Trust, Index on Censorship and the London Film School and a trustee of the Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Wincott Foundation.