Adam Gee

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Adam Jonathan Gee (born 12 September 1963 in London, England) is an award-winning London-based interactive media producer and commissioner.

In 2003, he moved to Channel 4 Television, London, where he is currently Cross-platform Commissioner (Factual).[1] He is a specialist in multiplatform interactive projects around TV, commissioning factual and documentary interactive media. He was responsible for establishing Ideasfactory (renamed 4Talent in 2007), the Channel's creative industries talent development initiative.[2]

Gee was formerly Director of Production of pioneering broadband production company Redbus CPD.[3] He began his career in 1983 at Solus Enterprises, the co-operative of cinematographers/film technicians Roger Deakins ASC BSC, Jack Hazan, Dick Pope BSC and David Mingay.

He has won over 70 international awards for his productions — including three British Academy Awards (BAFTA), three Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards, a Design Council Millennium Award and the Grand Award at the New York International Film & Television Festival. Embarrassing Bodies Online won the Interactivity category of the TV BAFTAs in 2009. Both Lost Generation and Breaking the News were nominated for TV BAFTAs in 2006 and Big Art Mob was nominated for three TV BAFTAs in 2008. Empire's Children won the London Design Festival People's Choice (Y Design) Award in 2007. Big Art Mob won the RTS Innovation Award for mobile in 2007 and the Media Guardian Innovation Award for community engagement in 2008. Landshare won the RTS Innovation Award for user-generated content in 2009.[4] Life Begins/One Born Every Minute was nominated for the New Media category of the TV BAFTAs in 2010 and Embarrassing Bodies: Live won the TV Craft BAFTA in 2010 for Interactive Creative Contribution. Embarrassing Bodies: Live was nominated for an International Digital Emmy in 2011.[5] Big Fish Fight is nominated for a 2011 TV Craft BAFTA for Digital Creativity.

Gee has served on BAFTA’s Television and Interactive Entertainment committees and is a voting member of the European Film Academy. He has served on the board of ICA’s The Club at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and is a trustee of Culture24.[6] Gee is a Non-Executive Director of UK-based online marketing agency Hot Cherry [7] and of video dictionary Wordia.

Gee won the very first BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award (with Tim Wright and Rob Bevan) which was for Comedy presented by Stephen Fry in 1998. This was for a CD-ROM game to do with creative thinking entitled 'MindGym'. He conceived the idea and co-wrote the script with interactive writer Tim Wright and writer/actor Ben Miller (Johnny English, etc.)

Gee served as an advisor on the UK government's Byron Review of Children and New Technology (child safety with regard to internet and video games) published in March 2008.[8]

He was educated at the direct grant Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School.

He was made a Freeman of the City of London through the Worshipful Company of Cutlers in 2006 and is now a Liveryman.

References

  1. ^ The Guardian, UK: Inside some of Channel 4's new media projects
  2. ^ Brand Republic
  3. ^ Cranfield/BT Vision 100 index of Britain's 100 most visionary companies (2002) published in The Guardian
  4. ^ RTS Innovation Awards 2009, Royal Television Society
  5. ^ 2011 International Digital Emmy Awards Nominees Announced
  6. ^ Culture24 Trustees
  7. ^ The Guardian, UK: Channel 4's Adam Gee takes advisory role at Hot Cherry
  8. ^ The Full Byron Review Report (containing a list of key contributors to the Review).

Productions

Adam Gee's productions include:

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