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Diene Petterle

  • Producer
  • Director
  • Additional Crew
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Diene is a double EMMY and BAFTA winning director and executive producer.

She was a commissioning editor for the BBC, creative director at Darlow Smithson Productions and Global Creative Director of Non-Fiction at Pulse Films.

She founded Drumroll Films in 2022.

Recent projects include feature documentaries Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now (Netflix) which won the National Television Award 2023 and is nominated for a Grierson Best Doc Award; Name Me Lawand which won the Jury Prize at Hot Docs 2023, was released in cinemas in the UK and is also nominated for a Grierson in the Best Documentary category. In Cold Blood (2020) won an International Emmy and was nominated for Grierson, Royal Television Society and Amnesty International Awards.
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    Known for

    Horizon (1964)
    Horizon
    8.5
    TV Series
    • Producer
    How We Got to Now (2014)
    How We Got to Now
    8.5
    TV Mini Series
    • Producer
    Mary Queen of Shops (2007)
    Mary Queen of Shops
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Producer
    • 2007
    Mr. Thompson's Carnation
    Short
    • Director
    • 2001

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    Producer



    • Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis (2025)
      Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis
      6.4
      TV Special
      • executive producer
      • 2025
    • Return to Lockerbie with Lorraine Kelly (2023)
      Return to Lockerbie with Lorraine Kelly
      7.9
      TV Special
      • executive producer
      • 2023
    • Max Verstappen in Max Verstappen: Anatomy of a Champion (2023)
      Max Verstappen: Anatomy of a Champion
      7.4
      TV Mini Series
      • executive producer
      • 2023
    • Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now (2023)
      Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now
      7.3
      • co-executive producer
      • 2023
    • Flordelis: Em Nome da Mãe (2022)
      Flordelis: Em Nome da Mãe
      6.7
      TV Mini Series
      • executive producer
      • 2022
    • Name Me Lawand (2022)
      Name Me Lawand
      7.4
      • executive producer
      • 2022
    • ITV Exposure (2011)
      ITV Exposure
      6.0
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2020
    • What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day (2019)
      What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2019
    • How to See a Black Hole: The Universe's Greatest Mystery (2019)
      How to See a Black Hole: The Universe's Greatest Mystery
      7.9
      TV Movie
      • commissioning editor
      • 2019
    • The Big Crash Diet Experiment
      6.9
      TV Movie
      • commissioning editor
      • 2018
    • Chris & Michaela: Under the Christmas Sky
      8.4
      TV Movie
      • executive producer: for BBC
      • 2018
    • Niobe Thompson and Sarika Suzuki in The Nature of Things (1960)
      The Nature of Things
      8.3
      TV Series
      • Commissioning Editor for the BBC
      • 2018
    • Can Science Make Me Perfect? With Alice Roberts (2018)
      Can Science Make Me Perfect? With Alice Roberts
      7.6
      TV Movie
      • commissioning editor: BBC
      • 2018
    • Chris van Tulleken in The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs (2016)
      The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs
      7.4
      TV Series
      • commissioning editor
      • 2018
    • Neanderthals: Meet Your Ancestors (2018)
      Neanderthals: Meet Your Ancestors
      7.1
      TV Mini Series
      • commissioning editor: BBC
      • 2018

    Director



    • Paranormal Witness (2011)
      Paranormal Witness
      7.7
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2011
    • Wicked Pirate City (2011)
      Wicked Pirate City
      6.3
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 2011
    • Locked Up Abroad (2007)
      Locked Up Abroad
      8.1
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2010
    • The Secret Life of Twins
      7.7
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2009
    • Horizon (1964)
      Horizon
      8.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2008–2009
    • Mary Queen of Shops (2007)
      Mary Queen of Shops
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2007
    • Gordon Ramsay in The F Word (2005)
      The F Word
      6.9
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2005–2010
    • The Last Client
      Short
      • Director
      • 2004
    • Mr. Thompson's Carnation
      Short
      • Director
      • 2001

    Additional Crew



    • Size Matters (2018)
      Size Matters
      6.2
      TV Mini Series
      • commissioning editor
      • 2018
    • Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time (2015)
      Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time
      7.4
      TV Movie
      • commissioning editor
      • 2015

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