A London film company. Documentary, drama and artist film.
Est. 2022
Finished work, broadcast and exhibited.
Full filmography at billy-dosanjh.com.
The 2026 slate — 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.
Funded by BBC Films · BFI · Feature · 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.
6 × 60 Serial · Co-writer Steven Camden
Drawn from the cine-essay — BFI, BBC4 & Channel 4; Arts Council Collection
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.
Feature · Source: Donnellan Archive
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.
Black Country · Vertical · Silent
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.
Writer James Walker · Feature
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.
Subject: Moose Wala · Feature Doc
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.
After Ozu · Feature
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.
Artist Film · Final Post
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.
Cinematic campaigns for brands and agencies, built in weeks rather than months, with the whole job under one roof. Your brief stays in the building: we don't brief out or farm to a roster, and your footage and likeness never leave our control. You see cuts as they happen.
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A small team. Decades of film experience.
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.
He teaches documentary at Goldsmiths and votes for BAFTA. Full record →
billy@rivvystudios.comRuns 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.comTwenty 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.comIrreverent director and a rare comic talent. Winner of the British Arrow. An instinct for timing, character and the absurd.
fred@rivvystudios.comCommissions, co-productions, commercial briefs and press. We read everything.