Chloë Leland is an award-winning writer , director , executive producer and VFX specialist . She is also daughter of British film director and writer David Leland . She became first notable for playing Emily Lloyd 's younger sister in David Leland 's directional debut '' Wish You Were Here '' in 1987 . She later worked for Working Title as a researcher on several productions and as a location scout on the movie '' Land Girls '' ( 1998 ) . Since that time she has written , produced , directed and shot documentaries and drama for television , including some of the highest-rated series for the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet . She worked as camera operator on multi-award-winning feature '' Concert for George '' and wrote , produced and directed '' Walking with Monsters '' , for which she won at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in the category '' Outstanding Animated Program ( For Programming One Hour or More ) '' and a VES as well as being nominated for a BAFTA and RTS . Her next series , '' Fight For Life '' , received extremely high ratings for BBC1 , as well as winning BAFTA , RTS and VES awards . In 2010 she was once again Emmy-nominated for the critically acclaimed '' America – Story of Us '' ( the record-breaking , top rating US series ) , on which she worked as series VFX creative director . She has held high-level positions with some of the UK 's top production companies , such as Head of Development for Impossible Pictures and Creative Director for Jane Root 's '' Nutopia '' . An expert in turning tricky factual content into compelling stories , Leland has worked as development executive for the BBC Specialist Factual and other top independent companies , originating and developing reams of commissioned series and specials . She has written for factual and fully scripted television and authored children 's books . She is currently writing several fiction and non-fiction books and is Creative Director at Academy award-winning Grain Productions
58th Primetime Emmy Awards
58th Primetime Emmy Awards
Chloë Leland