Lyoness specialises in making documentary and promotional films for the corporate & broadcast sectors. Working in the UK and abroad, Producer/Director Miriam Lyons is quick to identify a story and skilled in gaining the trust of a wide range of people, having directed films about subjects as diverse as conservation, religion, travel, celebrity, wildlife, education, death, diamonds and oil. She directs single and multi-camera DigiBeta and HD crews in the UK and abroad and also self-shoots on Sony PD170 & Z1.

Lyoness’s corporate clients include BP, the Ministry of Defence, Reuters, Vodafone and CNBC Europe. In April 2008, Miriam produced and directed a highly sensitive 2hr drama-documentary training film for the Army about death and bereavement. Broadcast-wise, Miriam has directed three of Sienna Productions’ factual entertainment series In My Life for The Biography Channel about Donny Osmond, Vinnie Jones and Michael Flatley (tx 9pm Christmas Day 2007). Prior to this, she produced & directed Mish Kids, a series of documentary shorts for Channel 4 which won Pick of the Day in The Guardian.

A proactive and personable P/D, Miriam is able to both start the creative process with a client or join it at any stage along the way. She devises pitch proposals, writes scripts and draws storyboards for a range of end uses – whether internal communications films for intranet, branding films for the web, educational documentaries for schools or financial infomercials for worldwide broadcast. She has also made films for e-books and award ceremonies.

Richard Melman,

Channel Director – The History Channel, The History Channel HD, The Biography Channel, Crime & Investigation Network and Military History.

“We set Miriam and Sienna Productions a pretty simple task – just make us exclusive biographies on three of the worlds leading dance, music and film stars, make them original and different, film in the UK, Ireland and America, fill them with great clips and music and, by the way, the budget is tiny.

How Miriam and Maureen Goldthorpe, the producer, did it I don't know, but they did and the shows were great and amongst the highest raters on The Biography Channel last year. In short, Miriam is a talented, creative director and minor miracle worker.”

Maureen Goldthorpe,

Managing Director – Sienna Productions.

“Miriam is that rare breed of Producer/Director who grasps a situation really quickly and just runs with it, without too much fuss and bother. She's an excellent writer (which, let’s face it, is always half the battle in putting any show together) and a fast worker in the edit suite.

She is a safe pair of hands, extremely competent, imaginative and, most importantly, a great team player...she’s also great fun to have around. And that in television is very important...”