Vanessa Engle

[1] She graduated with a first class degree from the University of Oxford, then took a masters in industrial relations.

[2] She taught at Manchester University then decided to work at the BBC and started to make films.

[1] With the guidance of Anthony Wall as producer, she went on to make documentaries such as Lefties (2006) about the British radical left of the 1970s and 1980s and Jews (2008) about orthodox Jews in north London.

[1][2][3] Engle is known for challenging people's values and belief systems, asking them direct questions.

[citation needed] Jews (2008), and Women (2010), have both been nominated for the Grierson Awards.