I'm a BAFTA award winning filmmaker, producer, polyglot, and I also write. My background is in journalism. I’ve worked on character-led feature documentaries, current affairs, investigative and retrospective films, some in hostile environments.

Before this, I worked at BBC World Services on investigative films, most of my career wa... Read More

I'm a BAFTA award winning filmmaker, producer, polyglot, and I also write. My background is in journalism. I’ve worked on character-led feature documentaries, current affairs, investigative and retrospective films, some in hostile environments.

Before this, I worked at BBC World Services on investigative films, most of my career was at the BBC. My experience is multifaceted and ranges from working with indies, and several BBC Newsrooms: BBC Eye and BBC Arabic documentaries, to international development, education, and the charity sector.

I have excellent access skills and have worked with Asian, Middle Eastern, North African, and Orthodox Jewish communities. I spent three years living in Morocco, long ago. And I grew up with a foundation in performing arts, inspired by Brecht, Steve Reich, Dario Fo - it all feeds into my work.

I produce, and am good at giving projects an energetic push and deliver with excellence and speed - This includes: developing stories, building the arc and narrative of a story, writing pitch decks, assisting on shoots, casting protagonists and contributors, investigating, hiring and managing local staff, producing deployments, writing HFPs, monitoring and tracking in high risk locations, archive research, fact-checking, clearing, output and impact production, campaigns and distribution - the list goes on …


I have started writing a script [drama] where factual and scripted content intersect. Read Less