Winner Bafta 2000 Best Single Drama
THE MURDER OF STEPHEN LAWRENCE - a film by Paul Greengrass starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Hugh Quarshie, a Vanson Productions co-production with Granada for ITV transmitted February 1999. Executive Producer, Yvette Vanson.
This powerful drama is the summation of the Lawrences' struggle to procure justice for their son Stephen, murdered in an unprovoked attack at a bus stop in Eltham, South London in 1993 by white racist thugs.
The Battle for Orgreave film
C4, 1985: The miners' strike 1984 was one of the longest and most brutal in British labour history. A community fighting for jobs and survival was wholly denigrated and depicted as violent by the majority of the media.
Cape Town, South Africa - November 2011
This was a memorable and emotional trip. Leaving London in damp, bleak weather for the early summer of SA, Michael & I were a bit dismayed to find that for a time the grey skies had followed us there. However the spirit of Cape Town is not a jot dreary…
Yvette Vanson
Yvette Vanson, was for twenty years an independent producer/director of contentious award winning documentaries; her work has been described as "television of a high order, well crafted and aimed unerringly to engage both intellect and emotions" (Financial Times).