Introduction

Petica is a freelance producer of documentary film and television. She has several years’ experience working for UK television production companies making programmes for UK and U.S. broadcasters.

With experience covering sustainability and environmentalism to arts and history, travel and cookery, as well as science and technology, Petica has a creative, practical and enthusiastic approach to whatever she undertakes.

Brought up in the Far-East and Italy, she has an inherent curiosity and love of travel and material culture. She holds a Master’s degree in the Anthropology of Material Culture (Hons), from University College London, where amongst her specialisms she studied ethnographic film, art of Tibet and material culture of Polynesia.  For her BA degree she studied the History of Art and Architecture (Hons) at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia. Her thesis was on myth and sacrifice as seen in the Mayan ballcourt reliefs of Chichen Itza, Mexico. Other specialisms: Venetian Art, China, Melanesia, architecture. She also has a Global Development course certificate from UCL.

She started her career as an educational tour guide, leading large groups across Europe during summer vacations. After a stint in the marketing department of Reuters News Agency in Madrid, and cooking for private dinner parties in Hong Kong, she found herself excavating decapitated Moche skeletons in Peru. She then spent 4 years at the Bridgeman Art Library in London developing business skills.  From there she pursued her goal of exploring the world though visual media, by diverting her energies into archive-producing, then producing, arts and history documentaries for television.

During the last 8 years Petica has been involved in many interesting environmental awareness-raising activities, from starting her local Transition Town group to making a film about plastic bags which has been used in over 40 different anti-plastic bag campaigns worldwide.

Other interests and skills lie in food and cookery, vintage furniture and permaculture gardening.