I am a very experienced documentary Producer/Director and have made films for the Netflix, CNN, PBS, BBC, ITV, National Geographic, ZDF and France Television, both factual and specialist factual: current affairs, history, natural history, religion and science. I am used to dealing with sensitive subjects and challenging situations or contribut... Read More

I am a very experienced documentary Producer/Director and have made films for the Netflix, CNN, PBS, BBC, ITV, National Geographic, ZDF and France Television, both factual and specialist factual: current affairs, history, natural history, religion and science. I am used to dealing with sensitive subjects and challenging situations or contributors and have made access-driven films on topics as diverse as the aftermath of Rwandan genocide, law and order in Mexico, the practice of 'bride stealing' in Kyrgyzstan, the collapse of the Argentine economy and exorcism in the Church of England. Some of them were long-term projects, shots over a year-long period, thus allowing greater access and depth in exploring the subject.

Between 2020 and 2024 I developed and made a feature documentary about the son of the Commandant of Auschwitz and his son, as well as a survivor and her daughter; it's a complex narrative spanning almost a century, which explores the shadow horrific events in the past casts down the generations. It was acquired  by Warner Bros. and HBO, and has been released theatrically in more than 770 cinemas across the USA, 80+ cinemas in Germany, 30 screens in Isreal and 135 in the UK. (also in South and Central America, Poland, Australia and France and streaming on Max, Sky/ Now, Amazon, Apple, Mubi and other platforms.)    

This year, I produced and directed two films for German broadcaster ZDF about the 7th October attack in Israel and the hostage crisis, having previously directed two documentaries for the 6-part series, 'A Year in Ukraine - Citizens at War' commissioned by ZDF in association with other international broadcasters. I produced and directed episode 1, 'The First Ten Days' and episode 4: 'The Siege of Mariupol.'

In 2022 I made an archaeological/ anthropological documentary in Peru for PBS (Nova) and France5, first broadcast in the USA in November 2022. Over the past few years I worked on major projects, such as CNN's 'Patagonia - Life at the End of the Earth,' a 6 part series about the (sometimes uneasy) coexistence between humans and wildlife in some of the world's most remote environments, and 'Vendetta- Truth, Lies and the Mafia', a 6 part Netflix series about the Sicilian mafia, Prior to that, I worked at Darlow Smithson Productions on two major National Geographic series, 'Nazi Megastructures' and 'Witness to Disaster'.

An unusual theatrical release film I worked on was 'Back to Utopia', a Belgian feature film which included a series of short documentaries exploring some of the issues raised by Thomas More in his book 'Utopia'. They were filmed in Italy, Uganda, Japan, Peru, Mexico, Greece and the UK. I started off in television the BBC, where I spent 11 years and directed a large number of prime-time documentaries, both in the UK and across Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia.

I have a valid US I visa and British, German and Argentine passports. I speak Spanish, German, Italian, French and Portuguese - I love languages and have studied Russian, Japanese, Latin and Classical Greek. I can often found on archaeological digs.

This is 'The Commandant's Shadow' trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMLOrFphspg

This is the trailer for 'Vendetta - Truth, Lies and the Mafia': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78qOHrILufk&t=31s

This is the link to the Ukraine series trailer:  https://vimeo.com/790108251/a65d9e1c0f

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