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2020-2024       Producer/ Director – ‘The Commandant’s Shadow’ (1 x 98) Snowstorm Productions, Creators Inc, New Mandate Films/ HBO, Warner Bros. Pictures

A feature-length documentary shot over four years about an Auschwitz survivor and her daughter, the son of the Commandant and his son, and the long shadow the past cast down the generations

Executive producers: Neil Blair, Wendy Robbins, Matti Leshem, Danny Cohen 

 

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2022-2023 Producer/ Director – ‘Citizens at War - A Year in Ukraine’ (6 x 45) GTV (UK), Tilt (Australia), Film UA (Ukraine)/ ZDF

I made two documentaries for a series about Ukraine: ‘The First Ten Days’, the first episode about the beginning of the war, and ‘The Siege of Mariupol

Executive producer: Tilman Remme, Chris Hilton Series Producer: Charles Colville 

 

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2022    Producer/ Director – ‘Nazca Desert Mystery’ (1 x 60) Blink Films/ PBS, France5 

An archaeological/ anthropological documentary about the geoglyph-makers in the Peruvian desert and the cultural legacy they left behind.

Executive producers: Tom Adams, Dan Chambers

 

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2022    Edit Producer – ‘Dispatches- Boris Johnson: The End of the Road?’ – 1 x 60 – Rogan Productions/Channel4

A look at Boris Johnson’s time in power against the backdrop of ‘Partygate’ and an impending no confidence vote. 

Executive Producer: James Rogan, Sandy Smith                         

 

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2022    Senior Producer – ‘Ghislaine, Prince Andrew and the Paedophile’ – Naked/ITV1 

Documenting the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, her and Epstein’s victims tell their stories

Executive Producers: Fatima Salaria, Yvonne Alexander

            

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2021    Producer/  Director – ‘Unearthed: the Secret Dutroux Files’  3 x 60, Conde Nast Entertainment and Magneto Media Paris, Funded Development

Featuring unprecedented access to Dutroux’s files, the parents of a victim and a retired police officer make a last-ditch attempt to re-open the investigation.

Executive Producer: Sarah Amos, Marc Berdugo                                                

 

 

2021    Producer/ Director – ‘Patagonia: Life at the End of the Earth’ – 6 x 60 Plimsoll Productions/CNN

A landmark six-part series about the interface between the human and natural world in some of the most remote parts of Patagonia.

Series Producer: James Smith

 

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2020    Producer/Director – ‘Vendetta- Truth, Lies and the Mafia’ – 6 x 60 Nutopia/Netflix

In a world where nothing is what it seems, we follow the two court-cases of an anti-mafia judge and a journalist; are they working for or against the mafia? 

Executive Producer: Nicola Moody                        Showrunner: David Herman

 

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2019    Producer – ‘Witness to Disaster: Chilean Mine Rescue’ 1 x 60 Darlow Smithson Productions/National Geographic

A documentary about the rescue of 33 miners trapped under a collapsed mine in the Atacama Desert.

Executive Producer: Erika Dodd                Series Producer: Ashley Morris

 

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2018    Associate Producer – ‘Nazi Megastructures: America’s War ‘– 2 x 60 Darlow Smithson Productions/National Geographic

Two documentaries looking at the archaeology of war in Normandy and the Ardennes.

Executive Producer: Erika Dodd                Series Producer: Ashley Morris

 

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2016    Associate Producer – ‘Back to Utopia’ 1 x 120, Projecto Productions, Belgium/VRP, VPRO

A theatrical release film exploring the themes of Thomas More’s book ‘Utopia’ in contemporary settings, within a fictional framework. 

Executive Producer: Geert Heymans

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2009    Producer/ Director, ‘Argentina’s Dirty War’ 1 x 30 BBC4

A film about the conflict between the left and right in Argentina in the 1970s and early ‘80s and its aftermath  

Executive Producer: Lucy Hetherington

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2006  Producer/ Director, ‘Visions of America: High School Prom’, 1x60 min, BBC4
A documentary following pupils as they are about to leave high school for paths as different as the Airforce and art school – what are their hopes, dreams and aspirations?

Series Producer: Farah Durrani

 

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2005   Producer/ Director, ‘Africa: Who is to Blame?’, 1x 60 min, BBC2

As they travel around Africa, former President of Ghana Jerry Rawlings and Kenyan law student June Arunga identify the challenges and possible solutions their continent faces.
Series Producer: Farah Durrani 

 

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2005   Producer/ Director, ‘White Smoke – The Election of a Pope’, 1 x 60, BBC2

A film looking at the conclave and the election of a new Pope through the eyes of Vatican insiders and Catholics who have gathered in Rome.

Executive Producer: Farah Durrani

 

2005   Producer/ Director, ‘The Price of Prawns’, 1 x 60, BBC2

A documentary about the impact of prawn farming in Honduras

Series Producer: Jeremy Bristow 

 

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2005   Producer/ Director, ‘Adopting Granny’, 1 x 30, BBC2 
A film about loneliness in old age and an Italian town’s idea pair elderly residents with families wanting to ‘adopt’ a grandparent.
Executive Producer: Karen O’Connor

 

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2004   Producer/ Director, ‘Neighbours on Patrol’, 1 x 30, BBC2
An observational documentary incorporating personal and historical archive, which follows an elderly couple fighting anti-social behaviour on their estate.
Series Producer: Farah Durrani

 

2004   Producer/ Director, ‘ This World: A Killer’s Homecoming’, 1 x 50, BBC2
A film about a man who, during the Rwandan genocide, had killed his Tutsi wife's family. After almost a decade in prison, he was released and set out to rebuild his life – and reclaim his wife, now married to someone else. 

Series Producer: David Belton 

 

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2004   Producer/ Director, ‘ Correspondent: Gringo Crimebusters’, 1 x 45 min, BBC2
An observational documentary about former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was hired to reform the Mexican police.
Series Producer: David Belton

 

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2003    Producer/ Director, ‘Correspondent: You’ve been Tango’d’ 1 x 45 min
A film about Argentina’s economic meltdown, seen through the eyes of people who lost access to their savings, and struggled to get their money back. 

Series Producer: David Belton 

 

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2002    Producer/ Director, ‘Hooligans: Foreign Fields’ 1 x 60, BBC2
The third film in a series about football violence, featuring unprecedented access to the Boca Juniors hooligans and to their friend Diego Maradona.
Executive Producer: Paul Woolwich

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2002    Producer/ Director, ‘Everyman: Single Girls’ 1x 60 min, BBC2

A documentary about women who decided not to marry or have children 

Executive Producer: Ruth Pitt 

 

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2001    Producer/ Director, ‘Everyman: The Exorcist’, 1x60, BBC2
We follow an Anglican exorcist in Yorkshire for three months as he battles demons and poltergeists – and provides his parishioners with comfort and hope.

Executive Producer: Ruth Pitt 

 

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1999-2001 Producer/ Director, ‘Correspondent’, BBC2’s flagship international current affairs strand (precursor to This World)

I made 14 documentaries, between 45 min and 12 min duration, about a range of subjects: IT migration from India to the US, land conflict in Zimbabwe, the links of the Russian Orthodox Church and the state, the first fatwa issued in Germany, a cross Danube conflict in Romania and Bulgaria, ‘National Complaints Day’ in Mali, mental health and civil war in Angola, India’s population explosion in Bihar, a Cuban quest for lost millions suspected to be in the Bank of England, child prostitution in India, antisemitism in Belarus, the enthronement of the new Ashanti King in Ghana, bride stealing in Kyrgyztan, the abolition of ritual slavery in Ghana.