Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story: Q&A

WFTV members are invited to this online discussion for the upcoming Disney+ series; Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story, with series Director Lucy Bowden and Executive Producer Julia Nottingham. 

There will be an opportunity to ask the panel questions during the last 15 minutes of the session.

Event Schedule

18:25: Please join the webinar waiting room

18:30: In conversation with Lucy Bowden and Julia Nottingham

19:15: Audience Q&A

19:30: Finish

Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story 

This three-part UK Original Disney+ documentary looks at the jaw-dropping libel case that gripped the nation in 2022.  The series will be told through exclusive access to the woman at the heart of it all, Coleen Rooney, alongside interviews with family, friends and key players involved in the resulting trial. Uncovering one of the biggest tabloid news stories in Britain for the last decade, it reveals how Coleen turned amateur online sleuth to find an explanation for why private stories concerning herself and her family continued to appear in the media. The three-part series looks at the circumstances that led to her infamous Instagram post that ‘broke the Internet’ all the way to Coleen successfully defending herself in one of the UK’s highest-profile High Court defamation cases of recent years. As well as the case itself,  it will explore how Coleen has had her life played out in public for the last 20 years. We know her as one of Britain's most famous celebrities and wife of England’s record-scoring footballer Wayne Rooney.

Link to the trailer here.

Lucy Bowden, Director

Lucy Bowden has over 20 years experience of making award winning and ground breaking documentary singles and series. She joined Dragonfly TV to produce its first commission and stayed for 9 years working as a director, series producer and executive producer on documentaries for all the major UK broadcasters, including the first 2 series of the BAFTA winning One Born Every Minute. She spent the next 6 years as an executive producer at The Garden Productions before deciding to focus on what she loves most in TV, which is directing. 

Julia Nottingham, Executive Producer

Julia Nottingham is an award winning Producer and the founder of Dorothy St Pictures. Julia’s past credits include Pamela, A Love Story Dir: Ryan White (nominated Outstanding Documentary and Outstanding Music Composition Primetime Emmy Awards 2024), The Last Mountain Dir: Christopher Terrill (nominated Broadcast Tech Innovation Award 2022), 'Twas The Fight Before Christmas Dir: Becky Read (winner Grierson Best Documentary Prize 2022 and Best International Documentary Feature at Guanajuato International Film Festival 2022), If The Streets Were On Fire Dir: Alice Russell (second place 66th BFI London Film Festivals' Audience Awards), Be Water Dir: Bao Nguyen (Sundance 2020), XY Chelsea Dir: Tim Travers Hawkins (Tribeca 2019), Skate Kitchen Dir: Crystal Moselle featuring Jaden Smith (Sundance 2018), Kingdom Of Us Dir: Lucy Cohen (LFF 2017, winner Best Documentary Prize Grierson 2018, nominated Outstanding Debut BAFTA 2018), Trophy Dir: Shaul Schwarz (Sundance 2017, winner Outstanding Nature documentary Emmy 2017), All These Sleepless Nights Dir: Michal Marczak (Best Director Sundance 2016), The Possibilites Are Endless Dir: Edward Lovelace and James Hall (SXSW 2014). In 2018 Julia was named by Screen International as a Future Leader.

How will the online event work?

This event will be live streamed via Zoom.us. Viewing details will be sent via your confirmation.

Attending participants will not be visible to others and will be muted throughout the session. After the talk, there will be an opportunity for audience members to ask their questions to the panel by using the Q&A feature.

This event is for existing WFTV members only.

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