Award-winning current affairs producer / director
I'm a news & current affairs producer with a decade's experience working on international productions for the likes of VICE News, BBC Newsnight and Bloomberg Originals.
My work has been recognised with some of the industry's biggest awards, including an RTS, Emmy, Peabody, and an Overseas Press Club of America award –– as well as a BAFTA nomination, and a further four Emmy nominations.
I specialise in verite/observational storytelling, and have also made multiple interview-led docs.
I speak five languages, and have worked extensively in hostile and difficult environments, including Ukraine, Haiti and Israel.
Selected Portfolio
I produced and directed this half-hour documentary for Bloomberg Originals, based on a complex investigation into visa scams in the UK. I obtained rare access to Zimbabwe, negotiated and directed verite scenes with characters, and brought together multiple storylines in the edit.
2024 Winner: Royal Television Society Award
2024 Winner: Overseas Press Club of America Award
2024 Nominee: BAFTA
2024 Nominee: News & Documentary Emmy Awards
I produced and directed this multi-award winning documentary on the Ukrainian forcibly deported to Russia. Working with journalists on the ground, we obtained unprecedented access to the Russian “summer camps” where these children are being held.
2022 Nominee: News & Documentary Emmy Awards
From deadly mass protests, through the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, and the crisis at the border with the Dominican Republic, I was the lead producer for VICE News’ coverage of Haiti in 2021-2023.
This involved reporting in some of the most dangerous, gang-controlled neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince, embedding with the Haitian police, and secret filming with people traffickers who smuggle children from Haiti to the DR.
Our reporting was nominated for a continuing coverage Emmy.
I produced this one hour doc about the death of Phillip Mbuji Johansen. Philip was killed with a knee to his neck a few weeks after George Floyd was murdered. Despite the far right links of his killers, it took just two days for police to declare that it had "nothing to do with race." The case forced many Danes to confront the issue of racism in their country for the first time.
The film was part of the “Global BLM” series made for VICE TV, and won the NAMIC Vision Award.
2022 Winner: NAMIC Vision Award
More than two thousand children from the island of Réunion were resettled in rural parts of France between 1963 and 1982. Many experienced abuse and were deeply traumatised by being uprooted.
For this half hour BBC Our World doc (and shorter piece for Newsnight), we travelled to Réunion with one of the survivors, in search of the family she lost more than five decades earlier.
A special long-form investigation into the deadly dam collapse in Brumadinho, Brazil, which killed more than 300 people.
Together with Gabriel Gatehouse, we went to Brazil, as bodies were still being pulled from the mud. We found a story not just about an industrial accident, but about a system of economic development and a way of life built upon the ever increasing extraction of finite natural resources.
