About Us

Company Profile

Beyond Frontiers is a sister company to Land Beyond Productions. We are an independent television production company.  

Working across a range of  genres, our aim is to produce compelling documentaries and web clips, which aspire to entertain, educate and enhance our understanding of the world and its cultures.

Television Producer: Donatella De Murtas

Television producer with ten years of production and broadcasting experience, working across both long and short-form content, in a wide variety of formats, subjects and styles. Experience in researching, developing, scripting, producing and directing in English, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

As a programme producer, Donatella has successfully managed complex international shoots to produce primetime programmes: Globe Trekker: Zambia & Malawi 2007 for Discovery International, Treks in a Wild World - Malawi & Zambia 2007 for National Geographic; Exploring the Watery Depths of the Earth 2002, Mediterranean: Sea Creatures of the Night and Into the Heart of the Juquila Canyon 2002 for RAI International. Globe Trekker - Zambia and Malawi received the Chris Award for best educational travelogue.

Donatella worked as a promo producer on the launch of National Geographic Italy, Sky Italia and Hallmark Channel Italy and for National Geographic UK, Bloomberg Television and Cartoon Network, creating promos from conception to broadcast,  including story-boarding, scripting in English, Italian and Spanish and directing all post-production.

In 2000 she co-founded Filmmakers for Conservation - an on-line organization to promote environmental awareness - held Board Member office for four years and devised, wrote and implemented its first Conservation Award, serving as a Chair person of the first FFC Award Committee.

Donatella holds a BA in Foreign and Modern Languages and Literatures, a MA in English Linguistics, a diploma in Travel Writing and Photography a diploma in Writing for Television and trained in camera, directing and editing.

Producer/director: Tracey Holloway

Award winning, filmmaker, Tracey Holloway, produces and directs documentary films which reflect our changing world.

Her first documentary 'Arrows Against The Wind', for SBS TV, captured the plight of the tribal people in the remote region of West Papua, attracting international publicity. Due to unprecedented worldwide media coverage, this film scored high ratings. Awarded Best Documentary - National Educational Film Festival, USA. 

 Acclaimed documentary 'The Last Magician' produced and directed for BBC was broadcast on 'Under The Sun'. A clash of cultures in the Trobriand Islands, played out by three chiefs, with opposing views.  Received exceptional reviews including a nomination for Best Documentary - AFI Awards. Distributed by BBC Worldwide.

Tracey went onto direct 'Pig Tusks and Paper Money' for ABC Television. In the volcano town of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, shell money and pig tusks can buy most things. This film is an intimate portrait of a man whose life is devoted to promoting local economies.  Distributed by ABC International. Her focus later widened to Tibet where she was the Associate Producer on the revealing 'Cave In The Snow. Produced for SBS Television and distributed by  TVF International, London, this film is about a woman from Bethnal Green who isolated herself in a remote Himalayan cave where she engaged in twelve years of Buddhist meditation. 

As Head of Production at The Media Trust, London, Tracey developed 'Visions', a highly innovative series of social action films. Launched at 10 Downing St, this highly successful series of 25 promos was produced by the advertising industry and broadcast on Channel 5.

Published Work: Author of a book titled 'Fighting for Survival.' Drawing on personal stories, this book explores the traditional life of the Ikho hilltribe and their experience of  development in the remote, mountainous region of Northern Laos. Feature articles in a wide range of magazines.  Published by Reed International Books.  

Radio Programmes: Tracey has produced radio features - for ABC Radio National and the BBC World Service.