Rowan Deacon (born 1976 or 1977) is an English director and filmmaker.

Career

Deacon is from

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...

, England. She became involved in the industry in 2000. She produced '' Namesakes A Very British Odyssey'' in 2004 and '' When the Moors Ruled in Europe'' in 2005. She directed and produced '' Health Food Junkies'' in 2008, '' Tulisa My Mum and Me'' in 2010, 2012 episodes of '' The Tube'', '' Keeping Britain Alive: the NHS in a Day'' in 2013, '' Our War: Goodbye Afghanistan'' in 2014 and '' How to Die: Simon's Choice'' in 2016. She was also a researcher and assistant producer on ''

The Naked Chef ''The Naked Chef'' is a BBC Two television cooking programme starring Jamie Oliver. It originally ran for three series plus three Christmas specials, and was produced by Optomen Television for the BBC. The show was Oliver's television debut, an ...

'' and she was involved with the documentary ''

Our War ''Our War'' ( it, La nostra guerra) is a 2016 Italian-American documentary film directed by Bruno Chiaravalloti, Claudio Jampaglia and Benedetta Argentieri. It premiered out of competition at the 73rd edition of the Venice Film Festival The ...

''. Her first hour long film was ''The History of Islam''. In 2008 she directed a documentary about the models who pose as celebrity's body doubles. The documentary ''Our War: Goodbye Afghanistan'' won the 2015

Grierson Award The Grierson Awards are awards set up by The Grierson Trust to recognise innovative and exciting documentary films, created to commemorate the life and work of the pioneering Scottish documentary filmmaker John Grierson. The inaugural Awards w ...

for Best Documentary on Current Affairs. She directed the Netflix documentary '' Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story'' which was about the

Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal It emerged in late 2012 that Jimmy Savile, an English media personality who had died the previous year, sexually abused hundreds of people throughout his life, most of them children but some as old as 75, and most of them female. He had been we ...

and was released in April 2022.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Deacon, Rowan Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Leeds British documentary film directors English women film directors