Phil Turner

Director

Phil Turner is an award-winning documentary director with 25 years in British factual television. He is best known for Series Directing Sprint (Netflix), and a full slate of productions for Box to Box Films including Simon Cowell: The Next Act, Matchroom: The Greatest Showmen, Full Swing, Full Contact, Break Point, Make or Break and more for Netflix and Apple TV+, as well as his long-running relationship with the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 - where credits include Benefits Street, My Last Summer, SAS: Who Dares Wins (10 seasons), and the forthcoming Your Song for Love Productions. His work spans the full range of observational documentary - from intimate access films at the Olympic Games with the fastest humans on Earth to landmark social docs that shaped national debate. Benefits Street remains one of Channel 4’s highest-rated factual launches since the 2012 Olympics, drawing 7 million consolidated viewers and sparking a live political reckoning. Across his career, Phil has directed and contributed to formats and series that have been sold, streamed and broadcast in over 150 countries - work that began on British streets and now reaches a genuinely global audience.