James RM Hunt

CEO

Dog & Duck Films

James is a multiple award winning producer and archive producer with over 24 years experience. Starting off researching footage at The Image Bank library in the late 1990s, James then cut his teeth the at Sky News library as a news librarian for six years before going freelance as an archive researcher. He was then Head of Archive at Princess Productions for many years where he worked on prestigious entertainment and factual shows such as The Friday Night Project, School of Saatchi, Imagine: Jay-Z; He Came He Say He Conquered, Cutting Edge and may more. After going freelance again in 2010, he has contributed towards many archive based documentary projects like Rex Appeal, The Real Kings Speech, The Queen's Hidden Cousins’ the BAFTA winning 7/7 One Day in London and the RTS winning Graffiti Wars. James now specialises infeature dramas like Suffragette and Stan and Ollie, world wide release feature documentaries and like Apple Music’s first ever commission 808, the award winning feature documentary about legendary Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran I Am Duran and the award winning Sir Michael Caine / Simon Fuller produced My Generation about London in the 1960s which premiered at the Venice film festival in 2017. Since then James has archive produced the story of the life and career of ex-Rolling Stone bass guitarist, Bill Wyman called The Quiet One which premiered at the New York Tribeca Film Festival 2019 and archive produced Netflix’s most successful feature documentary of all time, American Murder: The Family Next Door in 2020. James has recently worked on Ronnie’s which is the life story of Ronnie Scott and his famous jazz club which is out in Everyman Cinemas in late 2020 and also has a showing on BBC4. His last project to be released was Bruno v Tyson for Sky which which is their most successful feature doc of all time as well. James is currently producing his first documentary called about the seminal 1960s fashion designer, Mary Quant with Goldfinch Studios and Dog and Duck Films continue to archive produce projects for the most prestigious clients for world wide release. James latest production is for MSNBC and Yard 44 titled Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11. James recently won three FOCAL International awards at their 2021 ceremony including a shared ‘archive researcher of the year award’ for Ronnie’s. He is the founder and CEO of Dog & Duck Films Ltd, a specialist research agency and production company.