STUDIOS
Est. 2022
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Originals / Slate 2026
In development and production. Original work for broadcasters, funders, and cultural institutions.
A drama feature funded by BBC Films and the BFI, drawn from the director's documentary on the 2005 race unrest in north-west Birmingham. A story of rumour, community and reconciliation. Script complete; open to co-production.
The dramatisation of Year Zero: Black Country — the director's acquired cine-essay. A six-hour serial of a marriage between two empire migrants in 1960s Smethwick, told in reverse, built on a twenty-year archive of testimony. With co-writer Steven Camden and the Smethwick Heritage Centre.
Inspired by Humphrey Jennings and the Donnellan archive. A documentary feature on labour, ritual, and the unwritten music of the working day in post-industrial Britain.
Time
An elderly Punjabi man carries a terminal diagnosis he will not say aloud, and the family keeps feeding him. A vertical drama told almost entirely in silence. After Vanistendael.
Spiral
A Punjabi woman marries into a Smethwick family and, under mounting pressure from her in-laws, her grip on reality unravels. A psychological drama of cultural clash, mental health and resilience. Script by the late BAFTA-winning writer James Walker.
Sidhu
The life and killing of Sidhu Moose Wala, read as a lens on the Punjab — partition, abandonment, and the conditions that produced a voice with billions of streams. Built on archive and close access.
Rhapsodies for the Serially Unsighted
An artist film whose ambition exceeded what was technically possible at the time of writing. Now realisable, and in final post. Film London FLAMIN scheme.
London Story
Ozu's Tokyo Story transposed to a mid-1990s South Asian family in the Black Country. Elderly parents visit their grown children in London; an unspoken diagnosis forces a reckoning with how far each has travelled from home.
Currently exhibiting — Paths You Walk, The New Art Gallery Walsall, to 12 July 2026.
Billy Dosanjh's full record — broadcast, festival and collection — at billy-dosanjh.com.
Selected Films / The Work
Finished work. Broadcast and exhibited. Press play.
Earlier broadcast work
Also: A Miracle in West Brom (Satyajit Ray Award), A Very British Holiday (BBC2 Wonderland), Beauty Queen (2006, first documentary) and Endz of the World (2024). Full filmography at billy-dosanjh.com.
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How We Work
Your brief stays in the building. We don't brief out, we don't farm to a roster, and your footage and likeness never leave our control. One editorial eye runs the job from pitch to master. Built in weeks, not months.
Pitch
Concept, boards, treatment in days. Twenty years of broadcast and gallery work deciding what's worth shooting.
Production
You see cuts as they happen — no committee, no approval chain, one director's eye throughout. Film, VFX, sound design, all in-house.
Delivery
Broadcast-ready formats, turned around in weeks. Multiple cuts, aspect ratios, platform-specific edits.
About
A small team. Decades of film experience. One editorial eye on every frame.
"One director's eye on every frame, from first cut to master."
Billy
Director / Executive Producer / Visual Artist
Billy Dosanjh trained at the National Film and Television School, where he took the MA in Directing on a Royal Mail Full Scholarship. He has directed for the BBC, Channel 4 and DAZN. He was on a factual shoot in Cameroon when he found the story that became Green Lions — which he then wrote, directed and executive produced, and which went out on BBC4 and DAZN in over a hundred territories. His short Lumbu, backed by BBC Films and the BFI, is on iPlayer. As an artist his work is held in twenty-four national collections, among them the Arts Council Collection. He was nominated to represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2024, twice nominated for the Derek Jarman Award, won the Satyajit Ray Award and was nominated for the Grierson. He teaches documentary at Goldsmiths and votes for BAFTA. Full record →
billy@rivvystudios.comGary
Head of Post & Workflow
Runs post and the studio's pipeline end to end. Keeps the whole job in the building, which is what makes the fast turnarounds possible. Grade, VFX and conform under one roof.
gary@rivvystudios.comClaire
Production Manager
Twenty years across documentary, drama, and commercial production. Runs scheduling, logistics, and delivery for every project on Rivvy's slate. Keeps the machine tight from pre-production through final export.
claire@rivvystudios.comFred
Director
Irreverent director and a rare comic talent. Winner of the British Arrow. An instinct for timing, character and the absurd.
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