I am a highly versatile and multilingual Series Producer whose career has spanned over two decades of award-winning documentary filmmaking. I have worked across the world on a wide variety of genres and outputs, have extensive experience in covering art, current affairs, wildlife, science and travel programming and am passinately committed to uphol... Read More

I am a highly versatile and multilingual Series Producer whose career has spanned over two decades of award-winning documentary filmmaking. I have worked across the world on a wide variety of genres and outputs, have extensive experience in covering art, current affairs, wildlife, science and travel programming and am passinately committed to upholding the highest journalistic standards whilst going to the human heart of any story.

Hostile environment trained, I have filmed in over 60 countries and spent 15 years as part of the BBC’s core News and Current Affairs in-house team. There I led landmark investigations into global criminal and terrorist networks, covered the refugee and climate crises, crafted a variety of intimate character led stories in underreported worlds. I spent 3 years as a Development Producer across its factual and specialist factual output and am confident in writing, pitching and gaining commissions.

I am known for award-winning work in political violence against women and radicalisation across the globe (for Panorama, This World, Our World and across multiple news channels and platforms) and am highly experienced and very confident in originating stories; securing filming with hard-to-access interviewees and hard-to-reach locations; inspiring trusting relationships with contributors; navigating complex legal compliance; sourcing archive; directing presenters, recons, and actuality.

Brazilian and Austrian, born in Nairobi, raised between Rio, the Rift Valley, the Balkans and the Basque Country, I am deeply passionate about conservation and the power of ethical, fact-based, diverse journalism in igniting social change and have most recently completed a 10-part mini documentary series for the EMMY and Polk Award Winning *The Outlaw Ocean Project* - focusing on the dystopian world of Ocean dwellers and the range of environmental and human right abuses taking place in the lawless realm of the High Seas. During a career break from filmmaking between 2015 and 2021 I co-founded and ran Newsnuggets Network, a now multi award-winning media literacy initiative set in state schools. Over the course of 6 years and until the pandemic, the co-curricular club expanded and ran in 12 schools across 3 continents. Set up as a charity, Newsnuggets specialised in teaching kids how to research, fact-check and report news, how to best tell the stories that matter to them using editorial rigour for maximum impact. It was the recipient of a number of international and local awards - and here in the UK was awarded the Mayor of London's Excellence in Volunteering Award and the Unilever Award in Youth and Social Enterprise. Read Less