PRODUCTIONS
The Rugby Codebreakers | BBC Wales & BBC 1 | 1 x 60’ | 
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...a documentary that kick-started campaigns for 2 statues...
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Ultimate Sports Fan Quiz Show
Y Ras - Welsh language version | S4C | 10 x 30’ | 
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Contestants fight it out to become the Ultimate Sports Fan of Wales.
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Roy Francis: Wales’ Black Leader in a White World
BBC Radio Wales | 1 x 29’ | 
Historian and biographer Tony Collins tells the story of Roy Francis, the first black man to coach a winning team at Wembley and the founder of modern rugby coaching methods. Chronicling his rise from the fields of his hometown, to signing for Wigan as a 17-year-old in the 1930s, to becoming the first black player to play for the Great Britain Rugby League Lions in 1947 and first black coach of a professional sports club in Britain.
Terry Yorath : Life on the Edge | ITV Wales | 1 x 30’ |
In a special programme the actor Rhys Ifans tells the story of Welsh footballing legend Terry Yorath who talks openly about the personal tragedies - and triumphs - that have shaped his life and sporting career.
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ABOUT
Hoi Polloi Pictures is a Cardiff-based disability, Welsh South Asian-led production company with all its leaders originating from working class/low-income backgrounds.
If you would like to get to know us a little bit more, please read on...
TARIQ ALI
Has worked in the TV industry since the mid-90s in a wide range of roles for numerous broadcasters; in genres including Factual, Arts, Documentary and Sport. Tariq has produced and scripted the opening sequences for major sporting programmes, including the 6 Nations and Heineken Cup and has vast experience of producing and directing short-form VT inserts and long-form content. As well as working with all mainstream broadcasters, he has worked with many independent production companies such as Sunset & Vine, Film Nova, IMG, Whisper Films and on-screen talent including, Gabby Logan, John Inverdale, Eddie Butler, Jason Mohammad. He has also worked with high profile film actors including Helen Mirren, Rhys Ifans and Matthew Rhys.
Tariq has written three screenplays, one of which, ‘Hotel Gitmo’, was a quarter-finalist at the LA Table Read Competition 2024 and short-listed in the top 100 screenplays at the Capital Screenplay Competition 2024.
He has written a short screenplay, "Going Postal', which was short-listed in the Top 10 UK Short Screenplay Competition 2021, a short stage play called '10 minutes with Gareth Bale' and a full length stage play titled ‘I Felt Like Clint Eastwood’
Tariq's Full Production Credits
STEPH LYNCH
Since the 90’s Steph has accumulated an extensive knowledge of 
TV, feature film and radio production. Having worked as a Researcher, Assistant Producer, Edit Producer, Producer/Director, Post Production Supervisor, Editor and Finishing Editor, she has unique production insight and developed a formidable skill-set. She has worked on BAFTA award-winning Factual and Drama productions including 'Human Planet' and 'Damilola: Our Loved Boy' as well as on religion, education, music, history, art, natural history, specialist factual and observational documentaries.
ALAN GOLDING
Alan entered the television industry in 1995 as the originator of the BBC Wales BAFTA nominated Best Light Entertainment programme, Route 96 Moldova (to accompany the Welsh football team's 1996 European qualifying campaign). Having established his first independent company (Tidy Productions), Alan co-produced 'Built to Last: The Story of the Brynmawr Rubber Factory', described by the Chairman of BBC Wales' Board of Governors as ‘ the future of broadcasting in Wales' . Since then, Alan has worked on a range of documentary singles and series covering a broad range of subjects including architecture, agriculture, music, civil war and sport. He co-founded Hoi Polloi Pictures in 2017 as a project-by-project company while continuing to work on a freelance basis.
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