Alex Holmes

Alex Holmes

Profile

Alex Holmes is an award-winning writer and director who created and directed the critically acclaimed four-part drama House of Saddam for BBC/HBO. The series chronicled the rise and fall of the Hussein dynasty in Iraq and was nominated for Best Drama Serial at both the BAFTAs and the Grierson Awards 2009.

Alex previously wrote and directed the BAFTA-winning film, Dunkirk, which mixed drama with first hand testimony from Dunkirk survivors.