I am a multilingual and very versatile documentary producer with over 20 years' experience in forging character-led and access-driven films in some of the most remote corners of the world.
 
Passionate about getting to the heart of complex issues, telling stories in ways that resonate and can ignite change I have worked across output... Read More

I am a multilingual and very versatile documentary producer with over 20 years' experience in forging character-led and access-driven films in some of the most remote corners of the world.
 
Passionate about getting to the heart of complex issues, telling stories in ways that resonate and can ignite change I have worked across outputs and platforms - from orignal pitch to delivery - and across many genres. Originally an investigative journalist I have produced and directed on award-winning strands and landmark series (notably for PBS, Arte, Nat Geo, ZDF and the BBC where I was News and Current Affairs staff producer for 15 years).  I have covered conflicts, radicalisation and extremism, exposing human rights and environmental abuses across the globe and striving to ensure that underreported stories are developed, commissioned and brought to as diverse and wide an audience as possible. Duty of care, empathy, attention to detail and collaborative team work are at the core of all my work. I have also worked across genres whilst at the BBC and for indie, whether on travelogues (across 6 Simon Reeves series) or science and natual history led programming. 
 
Most recently I have focussed on developing and crafting the stories of the solution-makers and innovators in the climate space and am currently about to start the edit of a film whose story I pitched and got commissioned as part of a global series around indigenous-led water management. I have just finished filming in Northern Kenya and will be editing in Paris until end of March 2025. The series will be part of ARTE TV's Discovery and 'Gardians of the Planet' strand and will air later in 2025. I will be fully available for any other work end of March.
 
Away from TV I have co-founded and ran Newsnuggets Network a media literacy and critical thinking program for 8-14 year olds, expanding its remit across a dozen international schools, mentoring media graduates in Africa and Central Asia and was recently an Executive Producer overseeing behaviour-change campaigns for an environmental NGO and a public health charity working with local storytelling talent across Africa.
 
I am also a writer (doc scripts and print); have a solid academic background in global politics (I hold a PhD in International Relations and a Master's degree in Conflict Analysis). Kenyan born Austrian /Brazilian I am trilingual in English, French, and German; fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, have strong conversational skills in Italian and can work comfortably in both Arabic and Kiswahili in an edit. Read Less