Chester Dent

Who is Chester Dent?

Chester Dent is a producer/director from the UK with prime-time credits for the BBC, Channel 4 and DCI. Originally trained as a director of actors under Mike Leigh and Stephen Frears at the UK National Film Television School, Chester has directed big-budget television drama as well as music videos and commercials. His short film “Revolver” was shown at more than forty festivals internationally and in competition at Cannes. After a brief sojourn into New Media with Apple in the mid-1990s, he re-invented himself as an observational documentarian with two acclaimed films for BBC2’s “Trouble at the Top” series. In 2006 he was hired by Tiger Aspect to direct the US version of their hit series “The Monastery” for TLC. Chester continues to make signature documentaries in Australia with his latest series “Angels in New York” to be shown later this year on SBS. He now lives and works in the Byron area of NSW.