Masterclass: TV to Change the World: How to make presenter-led campaigning films have impact on and off the screen

Executive Producer Dominique Walker has been at the forefront of producing popular factual campaigning films for the past twenty years, including the BAFTA award-winning Jamie’s School Dinners which led to a fundamental overhaul of the food kids eat in schools, several Channel 4 campaigning commissions including Fowl Dinners, which pressured most of the major supermarkets into withdrawing battery farmed eggs and The Doctor who Gave up Drugs with presenter Dr Chris van Tulleken, which campaigned to wean Brits off prescribed drugs.

In this exclusive WFTV masterclass, Dominique and Chris will share their collective wisdom about how producers and presenters can collaborate to create powerful TV campaigns that are also entertaining television, and talk about their latest film for BBC1 which questions the role the food industry and ultra-processed food in the alarming rise in childhood obesity. They will unpack some of the editorial, legal and ethical challenges which present themselves…