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'Iddi and Esther' (Prod/dir/cam/ed, for FARM Africa)

Two children at the same rural school in Tanzania show us their daily lives - Esther's in the cattle camp, Iddi's at the roadside cafe.

 

 

'Rooted' (Prod/Dir; Rooftop for Five)

Young children from Britain visit their parents' home country; I made programmes in Wembley/Jordan and Glasgow/Punjab (shortlisted for BAFTA and One World Media awards)

 

Christian Aid/Asia Tsunami

Covering the immediate aftermath and emergency relief work in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu, India. Footage was used by Newsnight, Channel 4 News and Sky

'Sleeping Ruff' (Co-prod/dir; cam/ed; Walking Pictures/Vetwork)

Street dogs and their owners in Edinburgh; strong relationships in chaotic lives.

 

'Home on the Range' 

(Prod/dir/cam/ed: BBC World) 

Nomadic herders in Ethiopia speak their minds on drought, survival and the future

 

 

 

 

Murder in Purdah'

(sound, DVinserts; BBC 'Correspondent').
Women and Sharia law in Pakistan.  I worked on sound with the main crew and then independently on miniDV in the fundamentalist North. 

camera Sam Gracey

 

 

 

'The Dragon Bride' (Shared camera: BBC 'Under the Sun', RAI, Margaret Mead and other festivals. 16mm.
Following daily life and  preparations for 
Tsering's polyandrous wedding in remote Nepal.  

Dir. Joanna Head.

 

 

'Les Charbonniers' (Camera: Canal+, RAI, Margaret Mead, other. 16mm.)
A day in the life of itinerant charcoalburners.

One of two films I shot with French director/anthropologist Colette Piault, in a village in Northern Greece. 

 

 

'The Carrot and the Stick'  

(Prod/dir/cam/ed) Edinburgh, RAI, Cork, other; 16mm.)
 A British couple in their 50s volunteer to 'develop' farmers in the Papua New Guinea highlands - who already have their own economic systems, including tribal fighting....


'Lightermen' (Camera, co-director/editor; RAI, Stockholm and other festivals; 16mm.B&W)
The crew of a tugboat drag rubbish down the river Thames and tell us their wildly different versions of industrial history. 

 

 


Other 16mm.camera credits include 'Rencontres du Passe' (France/Switzerland); retracing her flight from the Nazis with a young refugee now in her seventies,  and '1492: The Shattered Utopia' (Channel 4), on the expulsion of Muslims from Spain in that year.