Sara Gibbings(I)
- Producer
- Director
- Additional Crew
Sara Gibbings is an award-winning producer/director with 20 years experience in international production.
With a background in journalism (The Sunday Tribune, The Sunday Times
Ireland Edition) she spent a couple of years doing commercials
(Volkswagen, Carlsberg, Cadburys, Guinness, Aer Lingus) and music
videos (U2) at Windmill Lane Pictures and Toytown Film in Dublin.
In 2000 Sara moved to Barcelona and spent the next four years as Channel
Producer for 3 film channels at Media Park where she produced the
documentary series Once Upon a Time in Europe (13 x 30') with Sir
Christopher Lee, the documentary features Sergio Leone. Cinema. Cinema
and The Good, the Bomb and the Ugly. In addition, she produced
Telecine, Spain's first daily arts news program as well as the highly
successful Cinema Composers series(30 x 15'). In May 2002 she produced
the launch of a new TV channel, Star, which has since been bought by
MGM.
Sara started Padi Productions in 2004 and has worked on
documentaries and factual programs for the BBC, ITV, Channel 5, NHK,
TV3, Canal Sur. Most noted are BAFTA winning Simon Schama's Power of
Art: Picasso, The Bachelor, Voyages of Discovery- Circumnavigation.
In 2016 Sara founded Troy TV in the UK, working primarily in factual content, collaborating on projects for Nat Geo, Discovery, BBC, Netflix and many more. Recent credits include UK Series Producer for Season One of Welcome to Wrexham (5 Emmy wins).
In 2021-2022 Troy TV expanded into scripted content, working primarily on female-led projects, with hugely talented writers and directors including Jo Southwell and Ann-Marie McCormack. In 2023 she produced Echo by Jo Southwell, which has won multiple awards in the US, UK and Europe.
Sara is an alumni of Creative UK's prestigious Female Founders Program and Troy TV is a member of Bristol Media, WFTV, the RTS and PACT.