So who is responsible for all of this? The project’s beginnings — under the banner of “Kubrick Visions” — was undertaken by Howard Berry and his colleague GD Jayalakshmi of the University of Hertfordshire, with the assistance of the Kubrick Estate.  After the first few interviews, we worked with Elstree Screen Heritage to interview several more Kubrick crew members.  The partnership between Howard and ESH worked so well we decided to formalise it into The Elstree Project.  Between 2010-2016 Howard and Elstree Screen Heritage worked in a formal partnership to record many interviews, and we gratefully acknowledge the expertise, knowledge and access granted to us by Paul Welsh MBE and Elstree Screen Heritage. The project is now run entirely by Howard, as part of his ongoing research at the University. We have also enjoyed the inclusion of several guest interviewers including Roberto Perrone and Morris Bright MBE.

We gratefully acknowledge the access granted to us by both BBC Elstree Centre and Elstree Studios, to record on their property and their continued support of the project. We also acknowledge and thank Warner Bros and StudioCanal for their support. The project continues to be supported by the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire; with specialist support from the technical staff of the loan store and the Film and Television department.

The Current Team

Howard Berry MA AFRHS FHEA BFE(Assoc.) — Project Leader

Howard is Reader in Film Heritage Practice, and Programme Leader of the Postgraduate Film Production programme at the University of Hertfordshire. Howard is a consultant to Warner Brothers and works closely with the Stanley Kubrick estate, and is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Associate Member of the British Film Editors. Howard’s work has screened at Sheffield DocFest, Telluride Film Festival, Lumière Film Festival, American Cinema Editor’s EditFest Global Film Festival; and in the Frankfurt Film Museum, Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco), The Design Museum (London), The Museum of the Moving Image (New York), and the National Portrait Gallery (London). He was nominated for Best Documentary Feature Editing at the 2025 ACE Eddie Awards, and is won the Royal Television Society East Award 2025 for Best Craft Editing for the documentary Her Name Was Moviola, co-made with Walter Murch.

Kevin Jon Davies

Kevin is a documentary filmmaker, author and lecturer. Kevin is best known for his work in the world of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in which he has documented almost every version of the famous works by Douglas Adams. Kevin directed the BBC documentary “30 Years in the TARDIS” in 1993, and has produced and directed a vast number of behind-the-scenes and making-of documentaries, interviewing many cast and crew from cult television and film productions. In 2023 his book, focused on archive research, 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams went straight in at number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list.

Ila Desai

Ila is an acclaimed photographer, known for her documentary style photography of live events and behind the scenes images of film sets. Ila has worked with a range of clients across music, film, arts, culture and heritage. Ila documented our launch, and has been with us at various interviews and events to the present day, including our reunion of the crew of The Shining in 2015 and our documentation of the BBC Elstree Centre.

Our crew

The crew is made up of students and staff from the film and television degrees at the University of Hertfordshire. Giving students opportunities to visit and work on a shoot at working film studios, and to learn on the job on filming interviews — as well as to get to hear the real stories of some of their favourite film and television shows — is a great experience, that we are proud to offer. We are kindly supported by the technical expertise of our department’s technicians Paul Roberts and Matthew Welch, and our equipment loan store.