Exclusive: BBC Films, Ifb in production on documentary about champion jockey AP McCoy.
Nineteen-time champion jump jockey AP McCoy (aka Tony McCoy) is the subject of a new all-access feature documentary made in association with BBC Films and the Irish Film Board.
Currently filming at locations and racecourses across the UK and Ireland, Being AP (working title) has exclusive access to the Northern Irish jockey, his family and racing teams for the 2014-15 season.
The 40 year-old has notched up more than 4,300 wins, 700 falls, 40 broken bones and a BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award in 2010 across a near 25-year racing career.
The film is being made by Moneyglass Films, in partnership with Partizan Films and Roads Entertainment, and in association with BBC Films with support from The Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Screen and the British Horse Racing Authority/Great British Racing.
Directed by multiple-bafta winner and Emmy nominee Anthony Wonke (Children on The Front Line, Crackhouse...
Nineteen-time champion jump jockey AP McCoy (aka Tony McCoy) is the subject of a new all-access feature documentary made in association with BBC Films and the Irish Film Board.
Currently filming at locations and racecourses across the UK and Ireland, Being AP (working title) has exclusive access to the Northern Irish jockey, his family and racing teams for the 2014-15 season.
The 40 year-old has notched up more than 4,300 wins, 700 falls, 40 broken bones and a BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award in 2010 across a near 25-year racing career.
The film is being made by Moneyglass Films, in partnership with Partizan Films and Roads Entertainment, and in association with BBC Films with support from The Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Screen and the British Horse Racing Authority/Great British Racing.
Directed by multiple-bafta winner and Emmy nominee Anthony Wonke (Children on The Front Line, Crackhouse...
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- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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