Steve Fishwick
Producer - Director - Editor
Nationality: British

After studying film and TV at the Polytechnic of Central London, Steve Fishwick began his career as a Sound Mixer, Location Sound Recordist and Film Dubbing Editor, working on projects that included Nick Roeg's The Witches, BBC's 40 Minutes and LWT's South Bank Show. Steve then embarked on a fifteen year career as an Editor, quickly building a reputation for Bafta Award winning television with Death of Yugoslavia and Castaway 2000, long running Channel 4 series, including Time Team, specialist wildlife programmes for the BBC, and hard-hitting one-off documentaries, including Mongrel Nation for Channel 4.

In 1991, Steve founded CUT Productions (www.cutproductions.com) in response to opportunities to direct and produce. One of his first commissions was the new programme logo for BBC Wildvision. Next followed the pilot that secured international funding for the BBC wildlife series Killing for a Living. Steve went on to produce the English language versions of the BBC One World Art Series and a river of documentaries for Television Trust for the Environment. He was also invited to mentor new directors at the BBC, Metroland (the national scheme run by Hawkshead) and Endemol.

In 2003, Steve joined Majestic TV in southern Spain as Senior Editor. He was quickly promoted to Head of Post Production for single-handedly planning and setting up the post production department and training his team of offline editors to online. A year later he was promoted to Managing Director of the channel.

Steve successfully sold Majestic TV in 2005, purchasing the extensive production and post production facilities to re-form CUT Productions as a Spanish limited company. CUT Productions S.L. continues to provide production and post production services to Yorkshire TV, BBC, Endemol and Sky TV and has formed a longstanding relationship with Real Estate TV, making pan European factual entertainment programmes.

Steve has just completed his first independent documentary series, John Fulton: the Kid from Triana, about the paradoxically brutal and brilliant world of bullfighting in Spain and the inspirational life of the American matador who succeeded in infiltrating this elitist art form, more than once nearly killing himself along the way. Blackpool Rock: Tales from the Underworld, a co-production with Fever Media, will be Steve's second documentary series.