The Team

Helena Appio

Helena Appio has joined Sugar Media as Head of our new Sugar Media Film Production Department. She is an award winning director and has had a successful career in television including 18 years at the BBC where she became a senior Executive Director in BBC documentaries. She has worked on and directed a wide variety of films and programmes including on Modern Times, 40 Minutes, Inside Story, Picture This and Children's Hospital amongst others. She has run her own production company and made films for C4 and The Arts Council. For the last 5 years she has worked in commissioning at the BBC. She was a Commissioning Executive for Docs and Contemporary Factual and commissioned and worked as Executive Director on many series including, Changing Rooms, Ground Force, The Reclaimers, Get A New Life, Dealing With Dickenson and The Queens Cavalry. Her extensive experience in television ranges from researching and programme making, directing and executive producing. In addition, Helena is a senior lecturer and professional trainer in her own right.