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Daniel M Rohrer
Lighting Cameraman
Email: dmrohrer@hotmail.com
Recent and past credits (from new to old). I have done a lot of food programming lately, but I’ve filmed all forms and types of programmes and documentaries. Hand-held camerawork is a speciality.
Recent Credits
BBC Food and Drink
Michel Roux Jnr presents a series that highlights British food.
Simon Hopkinson
Ricochet TV.
Actuality food cookery programme shooting on C300 and F800.
The Spice Trip
Alchemy TV for Channel 4. 6 x 60min programmes.
Executive Producer: Nicola Gooch.
Cookery show following award-winning chef Stevie Parle and spice expert Emma Grazette as they visit countries such as Cambodia, Grenada and Mexico to uncover the world of spices.
Gordon Behind Bars
One Potato Two Potato for Channel 4.
Executive Producer: Tim Whitwell.
Gordon Ramsay attempts to get prisoners working and paying something back into the system, while giving them the right skills to make them more employable on release.
Chatsworth
ITV Shiver for BBC1. 3 x 60min programmes.
Director: Mark Henderson and Faye Ryan.
An extraordinary access-all-areas documentary inside one of Britain’s most majestic stately homes.
Mary’s Bottom Line
Endemol TV for Ch4, 3x60mins.
Mary Portas wants to boost the UK clothing industry by starting her own production line to manufacture a key staple in any women’s wardrobe – knickers.
Taste Off
Betty TV for Discovery Channel.
Executive Producer: Neil Smith.
Taste Off is the competitive culinary travel series that sees chef Aaron Craze take on local food heroes around the world in a bid to prove he can cook up authentic cuisine as tasty as the natives.
Gordon’s Great Escape: South East Asia
One Potato Two Potato for Channel 4.
Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. Gordon embarks on another gastronomic adventure and travels to some of South-East Asia’s most jaw-dropping locations to hunt down the continent’s most authentic food and attempts to master its unique and delicious cuisine.
Hairy Bikers Taste of Britain
BBC Bristol.
The Hairy Bikers once again on a culinary food tour of Britain.
Two Greedy Italians
Director: Danny Horan
Fresh One for BBC2. Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo, together they are returning to the country that inspired their passion for food, to discover what is new and what has remained the same.
We Are Family
Director: Danny Horan and Gabe Solomon
Blast! Films for BBC2. 4 x 60min programmes.
Feuding and estranged families are brought together in a big family reunion. Main cameraman
North West Soap
Lime Pictures.
Director: Tim Hopewell.
Reality/ Drama pilot for ITV. Co-camera.
The Pioneer Woman, Home on the Ranch
Pacific TV for the American Food Network.
Ree Drummond is a city girl turned rancher’s wife turned food blogger turned Food Network host. Join her in the kitchen on her family’s Oklahoma ranch.
Sarah Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare
The second series follows Sarah Beeny and husband Graham Swift as they continue their battle to breathe new life into their listed 97-room mansion in Yorkshire.
Sleepwalkers – Secrets of the Night
Director: Lynn Alleway
Hart Davies for ITV. This extraordinary film blends three remarkable human stories of extreme sleep activity with the experts and the cutting edge treatment that’s trying to make these lives bearable – with access to the world’s top sleep scientists and their work.
Heston’s Feast
Series Producer: Tim Whitwell
Optomen TV for Channel 4.
Heston Blumenthal becomes a gastronomic timelord as he travels back in time to culinary worlds that have gone untasted for centuries to find out if the future of food lies in the secret recipes of the past.
Gordon’s Great Escape: India
Director: Tim Whitwell and Martha Delap
Optomen TV for Channel 4.
Gordon Ramsay has decided to do something he’s never done before; he’s off to India to push his passion for food to the limit.
Lorraine’s Last Minute Christmas
Lorraine Pascale creates a feast of tasty seasonal dishes, scrumptious edible gifts, and a stunning winter wonderland cake as she prepares for a festive family get-together.
Mary Portas: Secret Shopper
Optomen TV
Series Producer: Katy Fryer.
Mary Portas works with some of Britain’s best-known brands and high-street chains to give shoppers the service they deserve.
Hairy Bikers: Hairy Meals on Wheels
Optomen TV for BBC2.
Observational Food Series. A distinctive new side to the Bikers, as they turn their unique approach to the social issue of provision of “meals on wheels”.
Touring Britain: The Victorian Way
Director: Ian Lilley
Finestripe for BBC4. 60min programme.
Cultural historian David Heathcote uses his favourite old 1887 Baedeker Guide to explore modern-day Britain, discovering unexpected delights and hidden treasures which were popular with Victorian tourists but are rarely visited today.
John Prescott: The Class System and Me
Director Amanda Blue
Tiger Aspect for BBC2. 2 x 60min programmes.
John Prescott exploring issues surrounding class. Co-camera.
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares Series 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
(Bafta winner 2005 and 2007)
[Emmy and Grierson Award Winner 2006]
Series Producers: Christine Hall and Tim Whitwell.
Optomen Televsion for Channel 4.
Gordon Ramsay has one week to turn around a failing restaurant.
Mary Queen of Shops
Optomen TV for BBC2.
Retail guru Mary Portas helps struggling independent shop owners. Portas sets out to keep Britain’s small shopkeepers in business by sharing the tricks of the trade.
Children’s Hospital; Liverpool, Birmingham
Director: Michael Holdey.
Heartfelt stories of families being cared for by the NHS.
The Great British Holiday; Blackpool
Director: Patrick Forbes
1 of 4 60min programmes.
Following different types of holidays. Oxford Film and Television for BBC4. Observational documentary.
Jamie’s Ministry of Food
Fresh One for Channel 4.
Jamie Oliver wants to start a food revolution to get people in Britain cooking. And where better to start than back where he left off… at the school gates in Rotherham. Co-camera.
Surviving Thalidomide
BBC Scotland.
Director: Benetta Adamson.
The F Word
Series 4 and 5: Cameraman PSC crew.
Series 1, 2, and 3: Camera Supervisor/ Lighting Cameraman/ PSC crew. Optomen Television for Channel 4. Studio and location based food programme hosted by Gordon Ramsay. Director, Steve Smith.
The Mummy Diaries
Director Amanda Blue
Ricochet TV for Channel4. 3 x 60min programmes.
Observational documentary following cancer patients and their children. Co-camera.
Trouble at the Top: The Beatles Hotel
BBC Northern Ireland
Fleur’s Story
Director: Richard Denton.
Planet Wild for ITV.
The Walton Girls Come of Age
Director: Christina Hall
Time Travellers Guide to Medieval Britain
Director: Nigel Patterson
BBC for BBC4.
Using the incredible 14th Century ‘Gough Map’ – the oldest road map in Britain – as a guide, our intrepid team of presenters embark on an incredible voyage of discovery, retracing the steps of our medieval ancestors.
Atheism: A Brief History of Disbelief
Director: Richard Denton
116 Films for BBC4. 3 x 60min programmes.
In this first ever television history of disbelief, Jonathan Miller goes on a journey exploring the origins of his own lack of belief and uncovering the hidden story of atheism.
Redgrave’s Raw Recruits
Director: Christine Hall
Outline Productions for ITV. 2 x 60min programmes.
A group of men who have never rowed before will be trained for 7 months and will race at the Thames Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in July 2006.
Updated December 2013