Jeremy Marre is a television director, writer and producer who founded Harcourt Films and has worked extensively around the world. Many of his films are on musical subjects. His reputation was made with the Beats of the Heart series[1], which introduced elements of what is now called world music, and its performers[2], to the Western world[3]. He has run director courses for the National Film School, sat on the advisory boards for the National Sound Archive and the Arts Council of England, has broadcast widely on BBC radio, has written for The Times, The Sunday Telegraph, New York Post and The Independent. There have been retrospectives of his music films at the Florence Film Festival and on Channel 4.