Candour Productions is a female-led multi-award winning independent production company, based in a beautiful mill on the outskirts of Leeds.

Our passion is to make ‘films that make a difference’ and we specialise in telling stories with warmth, compassion and integrity.

In 2023 we won a BAFTA for Best Factual Series with Libby, are you home yet?; we won Best Doc Series for The Push at The Griersons in 2024; we were nominated for Best Small Indie at the Edinburgh TV Festival Awards 2023 and in 2024 & 2025 we were on the Winners’ List for Broadcast Best Places to Work in TV. 

We have a happy hub of filmmakers – Producers, Production Managers, Editors and Journalists. We pride ourselves on our diversity and inclusivity and our filmmakers have won the TV Foundation ‘Debut Director’ Award; the Sheffield Doc Fest ‘Northern Doc’ Pitch and the RTS Yorkshire ‘One to Watch’ Award; as well as being on the Broadcast Hot Shots list 2023 & 2024.

Candour recently received investment from the UK Global Screen Fund and are part of the Channel 4 Indie Growth Fund.

Candour has won and been nominated for numerous awards over the last ten years including a further 6 BAFTAS;  4 Griersons; Royal Television Society Awards; Asian Media Awards; British Journalism Awards & won the Royal Television Society Award for Journalism. In 2023 Anna was awarded the BBC Trustees Award at the Griersons for her lifelong commitment to documentary making. She’s also won two prestigious Women in Film & Television Awards as well as being the only woman to have been nominated in two consecutive years for the BAFTA CRAFT Award for Best Factual Director.

Candour's commitment to diversity:

Candour employs people from a wide-range of different backgrounds - and one of our particular passions is to help female directors stay in the industry - especially when they have kids! Over the last 28 Candour productions, only 3 have been directed by men!! 

Our commitment to diversity is best summed up by Augustine Tanner-Ihm: