Peter Webber

Peter Webber (born May 1960) is a British film and television director and producer. Webber took a one-year Postgraduate Film and TV course at the University of Bristol. An award-winning documentary director, Webber directed several programmes for Channel 4 about classical music including child prodigies, maestros and composers such as Richard Wagner. He also directed several popular science documentaries about a range of subjects including crash test dummies, deep sea life and phantom limbs. In 2009, he travelled into the remote Colombian Amazon to film with the Macuna Tribe for a documentary titled The Sand and the Rain. Webber directed the 2019 documentary Inna de Yard: The Soul of Jamaica. Webber moved to Qatar in 2008 where he took up the post of Creative Director at Qatar National Day for two years. During this time he developed their film programme. While in Qatar he also executive produced several documentary films including Sarajevo Film Festival winner For the Love of Books, which was also the recipient of a Grierson Award in 2012 for Best Historical Documentary.