Darren Bender became known in the UK TV industry for creating several long-running new film-maker's initiatives (

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& ''The Other Side'') at broadcaster

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. As

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there, he encouraged over one hundred drama and documentary film makers to make films inexpensively and often experimentally for late night slots on

. After a spell as head of production at one of the regional branches of the

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, he set up ''Bigger Pictures'', his independent television and film

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.Bigger Pictures - Home
Retrieved 9 June 2011. His first feature film ''Exhibit A'' was released in 2010 and won Best UK Feature at the Raindance Film Festival. He made a variety of television content including for Sky3D (

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) before closing Bigger Pictures in 2014 to be a full time parent. In 2021 he returned to filmmaking by producing, writing and directing the Indie movie Ferryman, which has won several awards at film festivals.

References

External links

Exhibit A official site
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