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Caroline Pick

Caroline Pick is an award-winning documentary film-maker and commissioning editor.

She commissioned and produced the BAFTA award winning series 40 Minutes from 1989 -1992. She was later a Commissioning Editor for Channel 4 where she specialised in discovering new film-makers. As a freelance Executive Producer, she also taught in the documentary department of the National Film and Television School. In addition Caroline has taught yoga and meditation in her own yoga school in London for 20 years. She also studied at Central St. Martin's School of Art and is now a sculptor. Her pieces are included in international collections in Italy and Germany and she has exhibited frequently in London and the south-east.

Home Movie marks her return to film-making.

Caroline Pick and Lisa Appignanesi: Retrieving Lost Memories
Caroline Pick’s Home Movie is a beautifully constructed film capturing the previously veiled story of her parents’ lives in 1930s Czechoslovakia and her own childhood in 1950s Britain. An artist, film-maker and former commissioning editor at the BBC, Caroline’s editing skills have shaped a powerful testimony to a lost world. She will be talking with Lisa Appignanesi about family secrets and the relationship between past and present. In A...
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Home Movie
A beautifully constructed film capturing the previously veiled story of artist and former BBC commissioning editor Caroline Pick’s parents’ lives in 1930s Czechoslovakia and her own childhood in 1950s Britain, Home Movie was shown to great acclaim at international film festivals around the world, as well as Jewish Book Week 2015, but it ended with a question. Her new film, Home Movie (2...
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