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Bungalow Town Productions make highly individual documentaries for worldwide audiences. The company was established in 2004 by producer Rachel Wexler and director/producer Jez Lewis. Rebecca Day joined the company in January 2010. We have produced and co-produced many critically acclaimed films such as Garbage Warrior (Dir: Oli Hodge), The English Surgeon (Dir: Geoffrey Smith), All White in Barking (Dir: Marc Isaacs), Out of the Ashes (Dir: Tim Albone & Lucy Martens) and Shed Your Tears and Walk Away (Dir: Jez Lewis) ,Guilty Pleasures (Dir: Julie Moggan) and My Perestroika (Dir: Robin Hessman). Their films have exhibited at innumerable film festivals including Edinburgh, London, Sundance, Karlovy Vary, Hotdocs, Krakow, Sheffield Docfest, Fullframe, Silverdocs and IDFA and have also been distributed theatrically, on TV and DVD worldwide. Bungalow Town have won dozens of awards, including an Emmy for ‘The English Surgeon' in 2010.
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|  Rachel Wexler Company Director/Producer rachel@bungalow-town.comRachel has over twenty years’ experience in film and television, principally documentary. As a graduate with a degree in media, she began working with independent post-production companies in London before working in production for several years at the BBC. In 2004 Rachel formed Bungalow Town Productions with her partner Jez Lewis, and has gained a very strong track record in making highly individual documentaries for worldwide audiences. She has produced or co-produced films for international theatrical and DVD distribution and broadcasters including BBC, Channel 4, ITVS (US), Sundance Channel (US), PBS (US), YLE (Finland), TV2 (Denmark), and SBS (Australia). Her films have been broadcast in territories worldwide including UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Korea. They have also exhibited at innumerable film festivals across the globe and won dozens of awards.
| |  Jez Lewis Company Director/Director/Producer jez@bungalow-town.comA relative latecomer to filmmaking, Jez began working with several independent production companies in Brighton in 2001, principally in research and development of new films. Always interested in social issues, he began working with Nick Broomfield in May 2004. For the next two years he worked very closely with Nick and was Associate Producer on His Big White Self, a feature documentary about South African neo-Nazi Eugene Terre'blanche. With Nick, Jez co-wrote and produced his feature drama Ghosts, about immigrant workers and the Morecambe Bay tragedy of February 2004. In 2009 Jez completed his debut feature documentary, Shed Your Tears And Walk Away, about the extraordinary human dramas which abound in the small rural town of his childhood, Hebden Bridge. This film has been nationally distributed in independent cinemas, exhibited in several film festivals including London Film Festival 2009, and won Best UK First Feature at London’s East End Film Festival 2010. Jez has recently been commissioned by BBC Storyville and STEPS International for their ‘Why Poverty?’ season. | |  Rebecca Day Producer/Production Manager rebecca@bungalow-town.comRebecca joined Bungalow Town Productions in January 2010. She previously worked for the Scottish Documentary Institute as a Project Manager, project coordinating, The Edinburgh Pitch, Interdoc and Bridging the Gap. She produced her first short film there, Peter in Radioland, which went on to be nominated for 7 awards, winning Best Short Film at Edinburgh Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival, and the Anthony Minghella Award for Best UK Short. Since joining Bungalow Town Rebecca has produced another short film, Lost Every Day, and has been working closely with Rachel across all levels of production on feature docs Guilty Pleasures and Out Of The Ashes and on BBC documentary Outside The Court. Rebecca Is currently co-producing her first feature doc Speed Sisters with Rachel and Palestinian based production company, SocDoc Studios.
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