Liverpool Narcos - James Incledon

Winner, Cinematography factual.

LIVERPOOL NARCOS

2022 Nominated, Best Documentary Series
LIVERPOOL NARCOS

2022 Highly Commended, Best Documentary Series
999 WYE

2017 Winner, Best Documentary Series

RECENT WORK I HAVE BEEN THE EXCLUSIVE DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOR…

LIVERPOOL NARCOS

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DRAMA DOCUMENTARY - DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

“A rip-roaring, gleeful and quirky tale, stylishly blending documentary and reconstruction to delight and enchant before arresting us with the horror and pain of the drug trade,” our judges said of Liverpool Narcos. “It had a great sense of doing something new to emotionally engage – and was thoroughly enjoyable.”

Broadcast Awards 2022

ABOUT JAMES

Born in Devon, James graduated with a first-class honors degree in film studies from Plymouth University. As part of his degree he trained to become an underwater cameraman and from there, he went straight into DOP’ing natural history films, travelling all over the world for National Geographic, Discovery and the BBC.

In 2010 James entered the world of observational documentaries about people. He became renowned for creating new filmic visual styles across landmark series, including ‘Reported Missing’ and ‘Forensics the real CSI’.

In 2016 James became a pioneer in fixed rig documentaries with the acclaimed series at sea ‘The Catch’ for Channel 4. He won a Grierson in 2017 for his strong visual approach to the Channel 4 series 999: What’s Your Emergency.

In 2020 James partnered up with award winning drama director Anthony Phillipson to make the critically acclaimed ‘Liverpool Narcos, a three-part drama doc series for Sky.

In 2022 James won a Bafta for his cinematography for Liverpool Narcos, he then went on to shoot a feature directed by Ben Anthony; ‘Hijacked: Flight 73’ tells the harrowing story of an American plane that was hijacked by four Palastinian terrorists in Karachi 1986.