I am an experienced award winning senior shooting producer/director, specialising in investigations, documentaries, factual programmes, current affairs and news. I have worked for all the main UK TV channels; BBC 1, BBC2 & BBC Arabic, ITV, Channel 4 & 5, Al Jazeera English, as well as American Networks including; HGTV, National Geographic, the Dis... Read More

I am an experienced award winning senior shooting producer/director, specialising in investigations, documentaries, factual programmes, current affairs and news. I have worked for all the main UK TV channels; BBC 1, BBC2 & BBC Arabic, ITV, Channel 4 & 5, Al Jazeera English, as well as American Networks including; HGTV, National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, The Living Channel and the A&E Channel.I am used to working with presenters, reporters and members of the public on challenging and a highly sensitive projects where gaining the trust of the participants involved is the key to making a thought provoking film. I have secured major international exclusive stories that have made front-page news.I have extensive experience of overseas filming in very difficult and challenging locations and situations. I am skilled in diplomatically negotiating my way out of problematic episodes having self-shot documentaries in; Kenya, Lebanon, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Thailand, Cambodia, India, South Korea and Juarez, Mexico. I filmed three films in the Drugs Inc. series (Baltimore, Miami & Boston) for Nat Geo, which required securing access to major US drug dealers and traffickers getting them to talk about the drugs trade.I have an award winning track record in current affairs and bring thorough journalistic judgment and integrity with a strong narrative story telling to all the films I’ve made. I am used to working long hours under immense pressure having worked on live rolling news stories and quick turnaround documentaries.I regularly work for Channel 4 News in the UK as a producer/director and or edit producer turning rapidly changing news stories into compelling Television. A documentary I directed in Cuidad Juarez in Mexico, one of the most dangerous cities in the world, was nominated for an Emmy in the most outstanding Investigative Journalism in Spanish Category 2014. A film I wrote and produced on the Somalian Olympic middle distance team training in Mogadishu won a Royal Television Society Award and was also short-listed for the 2011 Foreign Press Awards. In 1995 I won a Royal Television Society award for an undercover film for Channel 4 exposing private coal mine owners in South Wales. I also won Local Government Journalist of the year for an investigation into homelessness in Glasgow, Scotland.I have worked on Oscar nominated Feature Documentary, ‘Sicko’ directed by Michael Moore and filmed for another Feature Film Documentary on Cancer called ‘THE C-WORD’ with the same producing team. I have also built up an extensive contact list covering a vast range of subject areas compiled over many years. I have shot a variety of documentary films that require a more sensitive, entertaining and thoughtful narrative. Through my own video production company I have made five short films for the Equality and Human Rights Commission in the UK and for Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Peace Project. I have also made a series of small viral commercials for Ford Motors for the Munich launch of the new range of Transit Vans.I have self-shot documentaries, using a variety of different cameras. I am also able to shoot with covert cameras having filmed all over the world in dangerous and difficult locations and have hostile environment and emergency first aid training (HEFAT). I am an experienced covert-filming operator and regularly teach others the art of undercover filming.I am fluent in Italian and have a working knowledge of French and Spanish and possess a five year American I-visa and have a Criminal Records Bureau check giving me permission to film in schools. Read Less