Industry: Film & TV
Lucy is an experienced freelance financial controller in the film & TV industry.
She is a qualified Chartered Accountant who started working as a Drama Production Accountant at the BBC, where she progressed to Senior Production Accountant. Since then, in her freelance career she has worked on numerous HETV dramas, films and documentaries in the UK and worldwide.
Lucy co-authored the Production Accounting Know-How website. She also develops and runs training programmes within the industry.
Her recent production credits include:
- The Witcher: Blood Origin – Post Production Financial Controller
- Silent Witness S24 – Financial Controller
- Our Girl S4 – Financial Controller and Line Producer
- Minamata – Financial Controller
- Undergods – Financial Controller
- Intrigo: Death of an Author – Financial Controller
- EastEnders – Production Accountant
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Becoming an assistant in the production accounting office is a great entry-level pathway into the film & TV industry – Lucy Drake answers some commonly asked questions about the role.