Owner | Dare Pictures
Derren launched DARE Pictures, a transnational TV and film company dedicated to premium and impactful documentaries, drama and film in 2022. Notable projects since then include CRYPTO QUEEN: VISIONARY, VICTIM OR VILLIAN?, a premium unscripted series with Channel 4, Sky Germany and Fremantle directed by Rudolph Herzog and DALTON’S DREAM, a feature documentary for BBC Storyville directed by Kim Longinotto and Franky Murray Brown, backed by the BFI’s Global Screen Fund and distributed by Dogwoof.
His most recent films are THE SECRETS OF UK PRISONS for Channel 4’s current affairs strand, Untold and SELLING MY VIRGINITY, the launch film for a brand-new Channel 4 Digital strand In Too Deep. Derren was also part of the team behind last year’s BAFTA award-winning film, THE BLACK COP.
Prior to DARE Pictures, Derren was Creative Director at Woodcut Media for 8 years overseeing editorial strategy and executive producing a trio of documentaries sold to Netflix – the BFI funded GENERATION REVOLUTION, MANDELA, MY DAD AND ME, and CUT FROM A DIFFERENT CLOTH, both co-produced with Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures. Aside from DARE Pictures, Derren is also a mentor for Documentary Campus Masterschool and a Trustee for Sheffield DocFest.