Production began in April of our new TV documentary The Two Dereks - this is a film which follows the extraordinary life of the blind and severely learning impaired pianist Derek Paravicini, a rare musical savant who has the ability to play any piece of music after hearing it just once.

The highlight of this film is a concert held at St George's Concert Hall in Bristol where Derek played for the first time ever with a full classical orchestra, The Emerald Ensemble, directed by Roger Huckle and conducted by Martin Pring. Derek played music with the orchestra by Pachelbel, Paganini, Bach and Rimsky Korsakov. The audience response was ecstatic and overwhelming with standing ovations. This was all filmed by Focus with the aid of five cameras! The book of Derek's life, In the Key of Genius, written by his mentor and music teacher Dr Adam Ockelford was published in May 2007 by Random House. This film is scheduled for transmission in early 2008.

Editing was finally completed of our interactive DVD Ready or Not for Bristol University's Graduate School of Education, hundreds of copies have been sent to schools all over the country. It shows how drama, supplied by Cardiff-based Theatre Iolo, can be used to support the transfer from primary to secondary school and was based on research by Professor Martin Hughes with the Home School Knowledge Exchange Project.

All our films completed in 2006 are currently being distributed around the world by Channel 4 International. Focus Productions' Bafta-nominated and Royal Television Society award-winning film The Boy with the Incredible Brain ( or Brainman as its known internationally) about the savant Daniel Tammet continues to be transmitted in over 100 countries and is regularly repeated on the US Discovery Channel. It is frequently shown together with our 2006 production The Real Rainman on the super-savant Kim Peek, who was the inspiration for the movie Rainman. (details of both these films are listed on the website)

Our 2006 production Painting the Mind which features savant artists has been shown to great acclaim in Australia and Scandinavia amongst many other countries . It is currently awaiting its first UK transmission on Channel 4.

Our most recent Dispatches investigation film for Channel 4 - The Drug Trial that Went Wrong was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award.

Currently Focus Productions is a developing a major 3-part psychology series which has already been offered co-production funding in the USA. It is also developing several new current affairs and science programmes for a range of TV broadcasters in Britain. Watch this space for news of forthcoming programmes. We are also in advanced talks about turning a very unusual non-fiction book into a feature film.