Owen Hughes segued directly from university to a job at independent production company Pacific Films. Since establishing his own company Frame Up Films in 1977, Hughes has gone on to produce 40 plus documentaries and many dramas - including a number of productions by director Niki Caro.
As a ‘black’ worker [in London], no union card, on meagre wages, I quickly picked up the honoured English art of surviving on petty cash.
– Owen Hughes