Jerry Rothwell is a maker of feature documentaries, who started out working in community video work in the 1980's in various locations across the UK. He went on to develop training packages for the innovative youth media project, Hi8us, was instrumental in devising their  First Light scheme for funding young people's film making and went on to help create Channel Four's Ideas Factory.  He then became and still works as a successful maker of feature documentaries, many of which incorporate elements of community video philosophy and techniques,  most noticeably Heavy Load which he made with a group of learning disabled adults.