Rashida Josiah
Assistant Producer
About Me
Based in Manchester, orginally from London! Hi I'm Rashida, I'm passionate about using TV to help people share their truths whatever they may be! I was an 'on the ground journalist' for BBC Panorama's groundbreaking documentary on the Grenfell Tower fire. I recently won a commission to make a short film that was screen... Read More
Based in Manchester, orginally from London!
Hi I'm Rashida, I'm passionate about using TV to help people share their truths whatever they may be! I was an 'on the ground journalist' for BBC Panorama's groundbreaking documentary on the Grenfell Tower fire. I recently won a commission to make a short film that was screened at the 2019 Grierson British Documentary Awards.
KEY SKILLS
Finding great contributors via social media, casting databases, street casting & more.
Confident in conducting phone, skype and biog chats
Shooting auditions
Story & biog chats
Pitching contribs and ideas to producers
Producing on location and identifying story points
Script Writing
Growing and maintaining social media channels and producing online content.
Developing & researching ideas for features & writing treatments Read Less
Rashida Josiah played an important role as runner, fixer and on- the- ground journalist for the BBC Panorama film on the Grenfell Fire. Rashida was called in at the last minute and suddenly found herself working on one of the most important and harrowing stories of a generation.
She proved her worth time and time again over the next four days. One moment Rashida was talking to families who’d lost everything in the fire, the next she was rushing back to the edit with filmed material. Working 16 hour shifts, nothing was too small for her attention and nothing daunted her.
She is intelligent, resourceful and hard working. Our programme, made in five days was a team effort, she was a very valuable part of our team.
Media I Work In:
Broadcast Television
Live Events
Online Content
Short Film
Locations I can work in:
Manchester
Language:
English (Fluent)
Technical Skills:
Adobe Audition
Avid
Data Wrangling
Studio Experience
Awards:
Mulitimedia Initiative at Student Radio Awards 2015 and 2016