Current Projects
Jerusalem Productions concentrates on providing co-production funding for television programmes intended for broadcast on mainstream national stations (BBC1, BBC2, ITV Network, Channel 4 and Channel 5). It prefers not to support programmes for broadcast on regional stations, cable and satellite stations or those that are intended for video release only. Jerusalem Productions rarely provides development funding or grants.
It focuses on those programmes which are broadcast outside designated religious slots and which appeal to an audience which does not necessarily have an active Christian commitment.
Jerusalem Productions is currently working on two new and exciting projects for broadcast in 2012:
Catholics
We are currently working with Wingspan Productions on a new programme which will explore what it means to be a Roman Catholic in modern Britain.
In the Steps of St Paul
This new study of St Paul is being co-produced with CTVC and will locate the disciple in his historical time and place, exploring what was involved in his mission and the challenges he faced from the Roman Empire.
Jerusalem Productions’ recent television projects include:
Young Nuns
This documentary, co-produced by Twenty Twenty, and shown on BBC 1 in October 2011, follows two young women in their journeys to becoming nuns. Filmed over 6 months, this intimate documentary gives a unique insight into a rarely seen world, challenging stereotypes and exploring what convent life can still offer modern women.
King James Bible – When God Spoke English
Filmed to coincide with the 400th Anniversary of the commission of the King James Bible, this documentary was shown on BBC 1 in February 2011. Co-produced with BBC Religion and Ethics, the programme follows Adam Nicolson as he discovers how around fifty scholars from Cambridge, Oxford and London created this astonishing translation of the Bible into English, looking in particular at the seven years from the commissioning of the bible in 1604 to its printing in May and considering the technological, political and cultural circumstances which drove and shaped it.
