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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Executive Producer at RAW TV LIMITED

  • Education

    • National Film and Television School

      2003 - 2005
      MA Documentary Film Directing

      MA documentary direction

    • Kingston College

      1993 - 1995
      Master’s Degree Anthropology

      MA Social Anthropology with a specialism in ethnicity and conflict in Burma

  • Experience

    • Burma action group

      Jan 1993 - Jan 1995
      Volunteer

    • Cinema Cafe Productions

      Jan 1999 - Jan 2000
      Producer

      Series Producer: $100 taxi ride, Forbidden RitesDirector: Norway's Nazi Secret

    • Granada television

      Jan 2000 - Jan 2001
      Assistant producer

      projects included a BBC doc about the civil war in Sri Lanka and a Channel 4 feature length film about warring tribes in southern Ethiopia. Both included long periods in remote locations.

    • BBC

      Jan 2009 - Jan 2009
      Series Producer ‘Crude Britannia: The story of North Sea Oil’ 3 x 60 BB

      A three part series about the history of North Sea Oil, combining archive and music with eye-witness accounts to create an engaging social history of Britain’s most important industryExecutive Producer Bill Lyons‘fascinating, evocative stuff…this is BBC social history at its bracing best’ Time Out‘this terrific series combines lucid scientific exposition and yarns of derring do. Tremendous’ GuardianWinner: Focal award for best use of archive in a factual programme

    • BBC

      Jan 2010 - Jan 2010
      Producer/director/camera Britain’s Secret Seas 4 x

      BBC 2010I made one episode of this HD series exploring marine life in the seas around BritainExecutive Producer Gary Hunter

    • BBC

      Jan 2011 - Jan 2011
      Producer/director/camera Jerusalem: the making of a holy city 3 x

      a series about the history of Jerusalem presented by Simon Sebag MontefioreExecutive Producer Bill Lyons

    • ITN

      Jan 2012 - Jan 2013
      Producer/director

    • Freshwater films

      May 2012 - Oct 2012
      Producer/director/camera

      A one off film about post traumatic stress disorder in the military. presented by Ross Kemp

    • BBC Monitoring

      Feb 2013 - Sept 2013
      Series Producer

      I made a number of series for the BBC including Simon Sebag Montefiore's history of Jerusalem

    • ITN

      Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
      Series producer

      Series Producer: The Joy of Honey 4 x 30 BBC4

    • Shine Group

      Sept 2013 - Jun 2014
      Series Producer

      I Series Produced the first RTS Award winning/Bafta Nominated Channel 4 series: The Island with Bear Grylls

    • Betty

      Aug 2014 - Nov 2015
      Executive Producer

      Overseeing a number of big productions for Discovery and ITV as well as developing and pitching new projects

    • Freshwater Films

      Nov 2015 - Mar 2018
      Executive Producer

      overseeing all of Freshwater's output, including series 6 of Ross Kemp's Extreme World for Sky 1, as well as developing a range of other projects

    • Raw

      Mar 2018 - now
      Executive Producer

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • HEFAT training

      TOR International
      Jun 2014