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DISPATCHES: CONGO’S FORGOTTEN CHILDREN
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Director/Producer:
Giselle Portenier |
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Lighting Camera
Production Company: Blakeway
Congo’s wars have raged for more than twelve years and the cost to human life has been enormous. Nearly five and a half million people have been killed and many more millions have fled their homes and live in squalor in IDP camps. This Channel Four film examines how the children of Congo are being affected by the latest fighting that is tearing their country apart.
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DISPATCHES: UNSEEN GAZA
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Director/Producer:
Louise Turner |
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Lighting Camera
Production Company: Blakeway
In this Dispatches special, Jon Snow examines the difficulties that news organisations around the world have faced in reporting the conflict in Gaza. Who is getting the true picture of events as they happen? C4
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RUSSIA: A JOURNEY WITH JONATHAN DIMBLEBY
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Director/Producer:
Hugh Thomson/Jamie Muir |
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Lighting Camera
Production Company: Mentorn
A landmark series for BBC2, following Jonathan Dimbleby as he ventures through the whole of present–day Russia, exploring how this huge country came to be what it now is, through the richness of its literary history and the tragedy of its legacy as the former “evil empire”.
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LIFELINE APPEALS
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Director/Producer:
Julie Noon/Gretchen Shoring |
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Lighting Camera
Production Company: BBC Television
On behalf of various NGOs/charities the BBC makes appeal films and broadcasts them monthly. In the present climate of conflict and economic crisis the portfolio has begun to expand into some of the more troubled parts of the world. I have recently filmed appeals in Afghanistan and Liberia.
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THE INSIDER – ARMY ON THE CHEAP
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Director/Producer:
Jonathan Elliott |
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Lighting Camera
Production Company: Mentorn
Col “Bosnia” Bob Stewart travels to Basra in Iraq to investigate the role of the Territorial Army in the present climate of international conflict and discovers surprising and disturbing evidence of over-
reliance upon, and a lack of after-care for, these amateur soldiers. Channel Four
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DISPATCHES: AT HOME WITH THE TERROR SUSPECTS
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Director/Producer:
Phil Rees |
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Lighting Camera
Production Company: Blakeway
In 2005, following the House of Lords overruling the 2001 Terrorism Act which allowed for people to be held without trial, the Government forced legislation through Parliament that allowed for suspects to be placed on Control Orders, restricting their free movement
and effectively placing the men under house arrest. This film, for Channel Four, demonstrates that the legislation, apart from being unjust, is ineffective, random and obscure.
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PANORAMA: SEX CRIMES AND THE VATICAN
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Director/Producer:
Sarah Macdonald |
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Lighting Camera
Production Company: Uproar
An investigation into the Vatican’s silencing of the child victims of clerical sex abuse, placing itself above state law by the use of a secret document, Crimen Sollicitationis, which was enforced for 20 years by Cardinal Ratzinger before he became Pope. Originally for BBC 1 and
has now become the most watched documentary programme in Italy.
“fit only for the dustbin … (the producers) should bow their heads and ask forgiveness”. Avvenire (newspaper of Italian bishops)
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THE CASE FOR WAR
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Director/Producer:
Mick Gold |
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Lighting Camera
Production Company: Brook Lapping
A journey with former US Assistant Defence Secretary Richard Perle, travelling from Kazakhstan to Afghanistan, the Middle East and the USA, then Bosnia and Russia and finally Paris and London, explaining why he believes his pre-emptive strike policy is correct, and facing the challenges of his detractors along the way. WETA for PBS
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RETURN TO KIRKUK
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Director/Producer:
Karzan Sherabayani |
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Lighting Camera/Co-Director
Production Company: Joka Films
Karzan Sherabayani was arrested and tortured by Sadaam Hussein’s secret police whilst still a teenager. Lucky to escape both his captors and the Baathist regime, he returns to his native Kirkuk thirty years later, to exorcise his past, reflect on the present and explore the future of the Kurds in Iraq.
“This is first person documentary making at its most engaged and engaging” – Edward King Time Out
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TORTURE: THE DIRTY BUSINESS
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Director/Producer:
Sarah Macdonald |
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Description: |
Lighting Camera
Production Company: Mentorn Oxford
After 9/11 America created a legal framework to legitimise the use of torture. For Channel Four, Andrew Gilligan talks to terrorist suspects who were “disappeared” by the Americans and reveals a global network of torture in which the British are complicit.
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OPERATUNITY
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Director/Producer:
Michael Waldman |
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Description: |
Lighting Camera
Production Company: Diverse Production
From thousands of hopefuls 100 would-be opera singers are selected to audition in front of an expert panel. Twenty will progress to further coaching and training, six will perform ensemble pieces on stage for the judges, two will sing a major role in an ENO production at the Coliseum, Covent Garden. A four part series for Channel Four
PRIX ITALIA 2003 - Music and Arts Documentary ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY AWARD 2003 – Best Arts Programme BROADCAST AWARD 2004 - Best Documentary Series - Shortlisted for INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM EMMY AWARD 2004 - Arts Documentary - National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Shortlisted for BRITISH ACADEMY AWARD 2004 - Best Factual Series Shortlisted for GRIERSON AWARD 2003 - Best Documentary on The Arts
Shortlisted for HUW WELDON AWARD, BAFTA 2004
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THE DEVIL’S FOOTPATH
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Director/Producer:
Ivan O’Mahoney |
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Lighting Camera
Production Company: Insight News
5000 miles, six countries in six weeks. Kenyan law student June Arunga travels the length of her continent, from Cairo to Cape
Town, on a soul-searching journey to decide whether her future lies in war-torn Africa or, like so many other bright minds, in a continent of greater stability.
Two half hours for BBC Three
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THIS WORLD: BALTIC BRIDES
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Director/Producer:
Barbara Arvanitidis |
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Description: |
Lighting Camera.
Production Company BBC Documentaries.
Since the fall of communism Estonia has
experienced rapid change from being an annex of the Soviet Union to becoming a part of the EU through the latest expansion. The differing aspirations of Estonia’s twenty-something generation as seen through the eyes of several couples hoping to win their dream wedding in a local competition. BBC 2
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DISPATCHES: SUPERMARKET SECRETS
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Director/Producer:
Mike Brennan |
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Description: |
Lighting Camera.
Production Company Twenty Twenty.
A two-part investigation into the
techniques used by supermarkets to bring the food they want us to eat onto their shelves, from the mistreatment of animals to the genetic altering of fruit varieties, through misleading packaging and the extortion of their suppliers. Channel Four
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SORIOUS SAMURA’S AFRICA - EXODUS
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Director/Producer:
Dollan Cannell |
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Description: |
Lighting Camera (with others)
Production Company Insight News Television.
BAFTA award winning film-maker Sorious Samura follows migrants as they make a hazardous and illegal journey across the Sahara towards Europe and a future they cannot foresee in Africa. Channel Four
DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARD 2002 - Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Direction - National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
GOLD PLAQUE - CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL TV COMPETITION 2001- Investigative Reporting/News Documentary
ONE WORLD AWARD - Television Documentary Category - London 2001 PRIX EUROPA IRIS AWARD (MULTICULTURAL) – Berlin 2001
BEST OF FESTIVAL - OJAI FILM AND DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL - California November 2001
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STORYVILLE – MARCEL OPHULS
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Director/Producer:
Dimitri Collingridge |
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Description: |
Lighting Camera.
Production Company BBC Documentaries.
The director of The Sorrow and the Pity
and Hotel Terminus, in conversation with Nick Fraser - reflecting on his life, that of his late father Max, and his career as the “Grandfather of the provocative documentary” BBC 4
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THE TRUTH ABOUT LESBIAN SEX
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Director/Producer:
Josh Halil |
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Lighting Camera.
Production Company Optomen.
First of a three part series on gay sex for Channel Four, exploring the myths, realities, difficulties and joys experienced by lesbian women.
“ingenious filming” – Gareth McLean The Guardian
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THE DUMBED DOWN ELECTION
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Director/Producer:
Dollan Cannell |
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Description: |
Lighting Camera.
Production Company Juniper.
As part of Channel Four’s Politics Isn’t
Working season Nick Cohen investigates the modern phenomenon of electoral apathy and explores the implications for British democracy.
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A SECOND CHANCE
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Director/Producer:
Ambreen Hameed |
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Director/Camera (with others).
Production Company Pepper.
A series for Channel Four, exploring the alternative educational methods to excluding problem children from school. Three stories told over the course of an academic year, showing there is a better way and that all children deserve a second chance.
Shortlisted for SCREEN NATION AWARD 2003 – Achievement in Diversity in Production (TV) Documentary/Factual
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THE SURPRISING HISTORY OF SEX AND LOVE
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Director/Producer:
Alan Ereira |
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Description: |
Lighting Camera.
Production Company Seventh Art.
Terry Jones travels through the ages, and around the world, explaining how the powerful human desire to have sex and be loved has shaped societies, religions, cultures and our heritage.
Discovery ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY AWARD 2003 – Best Independent Documentary
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TROUBLE IN PARADISE
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Director/Producer:
Michael Waldman |
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Description: |
Lighting Camera.
Production Company Diverse Production.
Darcus Howe returns to the land of his birth to investigate the political state of the Caribbean. The launch film for Channel Four’s summer 2000 season.
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LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH
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Director/Producer:
Sarah Johnson |
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Description: |
Lighting Camera (with others).
Production Company BBC Bristol.
An intimate account of the emotional difficulties experienced by four couples as they attempt to adopt children. Documentary series for BBC One
BROADCAST AWARD - Best Documentary Series
Shortlisted for ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY AWARD - Best Documentary Series
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POLICE 2001
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Director/Producer:
Roger Graef |
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Description: |
Lighting Camera (with others).
Production Company Films of Record.
Roger Graef revisits the Thames Valley Police force, scene of his BAFTA award-winning series POLICE, to record how methods have changed in the intervening years. A film for BBC Two
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TONY’S NEW BOY NETWORK
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Director/Producer:
Dollan Cannell/Liza Hall |
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Description: |
Lighting Camera.
Production Company Juniper.
Nick Cohen of The Observer casts a sceptical eye over the network of political appointments under New Labour and
counts the costs for democracy. Channel Four.
Shortlisted for ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY AWARD, 2001 - Best Current Affairs (Home)
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ROYALS AND RIOTS
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Director/Producer:
Peter Nicholson |
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Description: |
Lighting Camera.
Production Company ZKK.
As the country prepared to celebrate the wedding of Charles and Diana the nation was divided and angry. Unemployment soared, hunger strikers died and riots erupted on British streets.
A tale of two nations for Channel Four
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THE HOUSE
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Director/Producer:
Michael Waldman |
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Description: |
Lighting Camera (with others).
Production Company Double Exposure.
Six part observational film for BBC Television, revealing all aspects of life and work at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
BRITISH ACADEMY AWARD 1997 - Best Factual Series Production Company Double Exposure INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM EMMY AWARD 1996 - Arts Documentary - National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
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