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Tracey Larcombe is a highly skilled director specialising in crafting compelling narratives for high-end television drama, comedy, and short film. Her extensive experience with SKY and the BBC has solidified her reputation for delivering visually striking and emotionally resonant storytelling.

Tracey recently directed the critically acclaimed South African true-crime drama Catch Me a Killer, which earned international recognition with its selection for SeriesMania’s prestigious International Panorama competition. Praised for its cinematic vision and quality, the series drew comparisons from the industry to Mindhunter and Silence of the Lambs. The score and title music were composed and performed by ‘Editors’ lead guitarist Justin Lockey. Tracey and Justin worked closely throughout the shooting & post production process to create a unique score, incorporating the atmosphere & sounds of the landscape & environment of South Africa, combined with the intensely dark tone of the psychological thriller.

With a diverse and impressive portfolio, some other notable work includes 4 part series Innocent 2 for ITV, Silent Witness, Death in Paradise, Holby City, Casualty and Bafta nominated series The Dumping Ground for the BBC, showcasing her versatility in a range of genres.

Tracey’s latest series Jack the Ripper: Written in Blood is an exciting and original look at the Whitechapel murders of 1888, the media frenzy of which culminated in the birth of the tabloid press. The series documents the grisly murders, the pressmen’s part in misleading the police investigation, and the invention of the world famous ‘Jack the Ripper’ moniker. The 3 part series is now showing on Sky History and Now TV.

Tracey has always been keen to use commercial music for her projects; two notable examples being Silent Witness, for which she contacted Luke Sital Singh (on instagram!) regarding a track she wanted to use on an episode, and he agreed. On the night the episode was broadcast the particular track which, instead of the usual title music, was played over the end credits of the show, had over 100k downloads as a result.
On her episodes of Death in Paradise Tracey featured two new singles from new artist Louis Van Johnson in two episodes. The show regularly has an audience of 8m viewers and is sold to over 250 countries worldwide.

Along with her broadcast credentials, Tracey also has a slate of her own exciting and diverse projects in various stages of development, including a Christmas feature film, an 8 part psychological drama series, and a comedy drama feature she has co-written with David Baddiel. With a collaborative approach, skilled leadership and dedicated commitment to creating a supportive on-set environment, Tracey has a reputation for delivering high-end productions with the utmost care and creativity.

Alessio Nanni was born on October 15, 1977 in Rome, Italy. After he completed the studies in piano performance in Rome, Italy, and at Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, in 2004 he studied composition and contemporary music at ‘Music and New Technology’ conservatory ‘L. Cherubini’ in Florence (Italy) and received a master degree in composition and electronic music in 2009 with top honours. He then began collaborating with musicians, painters, photographers, visual artists and film makers, keeping his path on the visual-acoustic research alongside a strong performing activity, giving concerts between Europe and in USA. In 2009 He started producing his own projects independently, recordings of classical repertoire and music for media and art installation/performance, devoting his attention exclusively to scoring for film. Alessio Nanni has composed and produced original scores for films, documentaries, TV series, TV shows, trailer productions, recording labels, fashion brands, shorts, video games and art installations. Among his most recent work are the original music for: Creed, The Ring, Paranormal Activity, Mad Max Fury Road, Beat Shazam, Making It, Temptation Island, Claim to Fame, Cannonball, The Queens of Motorsport, Steve Harvey’s Funderdome, Terminator, Transformers Fall of Cybertron, Assassin’s Creed III, Billion Dollar Buyer, The Smurfs, Killing Fields, Tomb Raider Definitive Edition, The Rise of Tomb Rider, Wraith: The Oblivion, Ouija. The original trailer score for The Evil Within was nominated as best sound design of the year at GMA Awards in 2015. Alessio Nanni co-composed with Hans Zimmer the original score for the Emmy nominated feature documentary ‘Brave Miss World’ directed by Cecilia Peck. The completely bespoke music catalog composed and produced by Alessio Nanni is currently featured in over 150 productions around the world. His creative mission is to merge the tradition of european-style classical music and instrumentation with the most advanced technology applied to computer music production, delivering the strongest emotional impact as possible in a clear and unique tailored form of composition.

Peter is an Emmy Award winning TV and film professional with over 20 years’ experience in the industry and with a broad experience of production, distribution, coproduction and digital licensing.

He is specialised in the production and distribution of long form music programming having worked at Universal Music Group’s Eagle Rock division (now Mercury Studios) for over fifteen years.

Recent credits include Eric Clapton: Across 24 Nights for Warner Music, the Emmy Award winning and Grammy nominated Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (PBS, BBC, Netflix), Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl (Netflix), the six part series Icon: Music Through the Lens (Sky, PBS) and Classic Albums (Sky, BBC).

Peter is currently producing a feature documentary directed by Academy Award winning director Kevin Macdonald for release late 2024.

Simon is a Grammy award winning songwriter & producer for many legendary artists including Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, Rod Stewart, B.B. King, Michael McDonald, George Michael and Carlos Santana. He was lead singer of the UK duo Climie Fisher with hits including “Love Changes (Everything)”. Since the mid 90s he has worked with Eric Clapton and as a producer, Climie has won two Grammys for the Clapton albums Riding with the King in 2000 and The Road to Escondido in 2007. In 2011 he co-wrote the film score and theme for Man on the Train with Larry Mullen Jr