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Rob is now working as Series Producer on a new BBC1 Wales primetime series called “Anna’s Zoo”. The series follows the fortunes of tv presenter Anna Ryder Richardson who has bought a run-down Zoo in Tenby, West Wales and is trying to make a go of it.
Anna and her husband are planning to buy 2 white rhino and various other threatened species to pull in the crowds and help with endagered species conservation.
For screening Autumn 09 (Indus Films)
Rob has just completed “Tough Kids” a one-off documentary for Childrens’ BBC1 about a group of 12 year old schoolboys running the Tough Guy Challenge. By pushing themselves beyond their limits and taking risks, the boys start to understand what it means to be tough and to be a man. For screening Feb 2010 (Indus Films).
Earlier this year Rob spent 6 weeks filming in Gabon in Central Africa for a series of two hour-long programmes for BBC1. The team lived in a specially built treehouse, safely out of reach of forest elephants, and captured the first ever footage of the rare Red Capped Mangabey.
  
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Funded by First Light Movies and Film Agency Wales, this film was made with a group of 10 year old children from Cantref Primary School. Mixing drama-documentary with animation the film explores the emotional experience of Kirill, a boy from Lithuania as he settles into life at school in Wales. His mother hangs the two flags in his bedroom: the White Knight of Lithuania and the Red Dragon of Wales. As Kirill goes to sleep, the flags become animated and the characters do battle. When Kirill feels happier at school, the dragon and Knight become friends.
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An animated documentary funded by First Light Movies and Film Agency Wales, made with children from Cantref Primary School.
Mary Watkins is ten years old and works in a welsh coalmine in 1841. Using clay puppets as the talking heads, and sand on glass techniques to illustrate the stories, Mary introduces us to her family and friends who work underground all day. Their stories are taken from real life interviews gathered during a government survey of child labour in 1841.
 
Rob worked as director cameraman on BBC Wales award-winning living history project, spending four weeks at the production coalface in Stack Square, Blaenavon. Three families stepped back time to 1944 to experience life in the war-time coalfields of South Wales.
On the latest series of BBC Wales award-winning coalhouse, Rob left the comfort of the edit suite and worked on location at Stack Square as PD.
In October/November 07 Rob Sullivan worked as Edit Producer on the award-winning Welsh historical/reality series Coalhouse, writing & producing three of the main programmes.
Rob produced and directed two episodes (3&6) of the six part series following Bruce Parry’s journey from the source to the mouth of the River Amazon, as he explores the impacts that the major industries are having on the native Indian people who live there. See details of Bruce’s epic journey and Rob’s blogs at www.bbc.co.uk/amazon
*winner of Bafta 2009 “best factual series”
Another First Light Movies film, this time working with younger teenagers of 14-15 years old. The Parkour enthusiasts travel to London to meet their Parkour hero and to ‘jam’ with the parkouristes of London. Using the built urban landscape in creative ways, the athletic boys explain the philosophy behind free running.
Nominated for First Light Best Documentary 2008; Winner of Best Film age 14-25 at the Zoom Film Festival 2009.
This 5 minute film is a collaboration between Flycatcher Films and a group of teenagers from St.Alban's High School in Pontypool. Filmed in the Brecon Beacons, the film tells the story of Roger Davies, a pony breeder, and Paul Sinnandura, a former ballet dancer turned national park ecologist. Both men share a passion for Welsh Mountain ponies, which have inhabited the Welsh hillsides for thousands of years.
This short film, funded by First Light and Pontypool Community Council, explores both mens' relationship with their ponies and attempts to understand their role in the landscape, and in the natural and cultural heritage of Wales.
From May to September 2007 Rob Sullivan teamed up with Indus Films as series producer, director and cameraman on Everest ER, a 5 part series for BBC 1 primetime. The documentaries follow the work of the volunteer doctors at basecamp as they deal with injured climbers attempting to summit Mount Everest. Rob spent five weeks in Nepal, working at the highest hospital in the world.
Rob travelled to France and Nepal with Welsh wildlife favourite, Iolo Williams, charting his progress as he learnt to paraglide and fly with birds of prey in the spiralling thermals of the Himalayas. Nominated for Bafta Cymru Best Documentary.
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