C4 Education explores Revenge Porn

For young people in the UK today sharing intimate nude and sexual pictures via text message is the norm, however, for many it has back fired.  It is becoming increasingly common for angry ex’s to post private pictures online on revenge porn and social media websites, leaving young people more exposed than they would ever want to be to their friends, family and people around the world. This modern phenomenon has become such a prominent issue over the last few months that under new laws, set out in the criminal justice act, revenge porn is illegal in the UK and perpetrators could face up to two years in prison.

Revenge Porn will investigate the dark side of sexting, revealing what can happen when your most intimate photos get into the wrong hands. Presenter, Anna Richardson, goes to extraordinary lengths to demonstrate just how an ex’s appetite for revenge can have devastating, life changing consequences. In the UK and abroad, she meets the people who have fallen victim to a scorned ex, talks to anti-revenge porn campaigners and experts and confronts the perpetrators of these awful crimes.

Testosterone Diaries (wt) was commissioned by Channel 4 Education commissioning editor Bec Milligan (maternity leave) and was overseen by Emily Jones. Young and Trans (wt) and The Camp (wt) were commissioned by Emily Jones. They will be produced by Firecracker Films with executive producers Tom Barry and Jes Wilkins and series director Nick Sweeney. Young and Trans (wt), The Camp (wt) and The Testosterone Diaries (wt) will all air on Channel 4 in 2015.  

Of the commission  Emily said: “Five years ago hardly anyone had even heard of revenge porn.  In the past year it has made international news, and changed UK law.  It has also spiralled in popularity and has the potential to effect anyone who has ever taken an intimate photograph.  This programme will serve as a warning, but will also take an intelligent look at how the internet has changed the way we control our own image.

Eve Kay added: “As the brave new world of the internet continues to develop and impact on our lives, the boundaries between what used to be private and what is now public keep changing - and not always for the better. This documentary is an important window on those changes."


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Production Information:
Commissioning Genre: Education
Commissioning Editors: Emily Jones
Executive Producer: Eve Kay
Director: Amanda Rees
Producer: Angela Clarke  
Production Company: Tifini