CURRICULUM VITAE

All my credits, all in one place

BROADCAST

I AM A SELF-SHOOTING PRODUCER, DIRECTOR

I directed and shot a highly controversial C4 Dispatches that exposed financial links between the House of Lords and Russian Oligarchs.

My Credits include:

  • Numerous projects for Discovery: episodes of Unexplained Files, which featured extensive drama recon; Life on the Line, an observational series about factory production; and How Do They Do it, a popular science show. 
  • I also shot, directed and produced films for the flagship Discovery medical series Body Bizarre and made mini-docs for CNN’s Great Big Story.
  • In addition to my experience making fast turnaround, high profile current affairs, I worked for two years as a director on the BBC's flagship Arts programme, The Culture Show. My treatments have been stylish, innovative and format driven.
  • My background is as an award winning journalist, writing for the Guardian and other major British newspapers.
  • I self-shoot on most HD/4K cameras and edit on Premiere Pro 

JOURNALISM

WRITTEN LONG-FORM FEATURES FOR THE GUARDIAN AND OTHER MAJOR NEWSPAPERS

Feature Writer for the Guardian Arts and Travel pages
1995-present.

Profile Writer, the Guardian Saturday Review
1999-2005.

News Feature Writer, the Guardian Saturday Review
1999-2003.

Editor of the Time Out Guide to Moscow and St. Petersburg

Also written for most national broadsheets and magazines in the UK and Ireland, including Time Magazine, The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Observer, Time Out, and The Irish Times. 

AWARDS

  • British Press Awards, Digital Journalist of the Year
  • Irish Arts Council Literature Bursary
  • Quarter-finalist, American Zoetrope Script Competition
  • Award winner, Hartley Merrill Prize

CREDITS

Discovery – Body Bizarre
Producer/Director, March 2017-present
High profile series about cutting-edge medical procedures – films include the Russian girl born without a mouth the 20 hour separation of Brazilian conjoined twins.

CNN - Great Big Story
Producer/Director, Sept 2017-present
Films about the resurgence of Soviet Arcade Games, life on the religious sanctuary of Kizhi Island, the legendary Church on Spilled Blood and the Green Screen Grandma.

Storyhunter
Producer/Director, Dec 2018-present
Short-form documentary films about Cryptocurrency, including the Bitcoin Sisters of Vienna and music star Imogen Heap, who releases records via Blockchain.

Discovery - Strange Evidence 
Producer/Director, January 2018
Film about Moscow’s infamous Lefortovo Tunnel, otherwise known, because of the high incidence of collisions, as The Tunnel of Death. 

PRODUCER

JOURNALIST

360 – Storyhunter
Producer/Director, Sept 2017-Present
Landmark project to launch Periscope’s new 360 Channel. Five films, all shot on a cutting edge new 360 camera, about St. Petersburg Drift Racers and dissident Graffiti Artists in Moscow.

Unexplained Files - Discovery
Producer/Director, March-Dec 2014
Two stories of a Major Drama Doc series, including extensive reconstruction shoot in
South Africa.

How Do They Do It? - Discovery
Producer Director, Mar-Aug 2013
Five stories for Discovery’s popular science series, including Kamaz racing trucks
and Nickel mining on the edge of the arctic circle.

Siberian Cut - Discovery
Producer/Director, Nov 2012-Mar 2013
Pilot for a series about lumberjacks braving the wilds of Siberia.

X-Machines - Discovery
Producer/Director, Oct-Dec 2011
Episode following the construction of the 2014 Winter Olympic site in Sochi.

The Tonight Programme - ITV
Producer/Director, July-Oct 2011
Investigative doc entitled Death of the High Street about the future of British retail

Life on the Line – Discovery
Director/Producer April-June 2011
Self-shooting director and Edit Producer on a film about the production line in a vast locomotive factory in Southern Russia.

Dispatches - Lords, Billionaires and the Russian Connection, Channel 4
Producer/Director, Feb-Dec 2009
Produced and directed a film about the growing influence of Russian Oligarchs in the UK and their financial connections with Peers in the House of Lords.

Extracted, A&E
Producer/Director Oct 2008-Jan 2009
Produced and directed a pilot for a new drama documentary series called Extracted, which recreates five daring search and rescue missions in different parts of the globe.

Channel 4 News
Producer/Director, March-Oct 2008
Produced and directed investigative items via the Indy Fund for Channel 4 News.

Visionaries, BBC World
Series Producer, May-Sept 2007, 7x22 minutes
A series pitting great Visionaries of the past against contemporary figures in the fields of Arts and Science.

The Culture Show, BBC Two.
Director, Feb 2005 - July 2006.
Director on the BBC’s flagship arts magazine programme for its first two seasons, directing over fifteen films about major cultural events and figures, including film director Robert Altman, Pop Guru Brian Eno, cartoonist Robert Crumb.

Oliver Stone talks to Kirsty Wark - BBC Four
Producer/Director, Dec-Jan 2005, 30 minutes.
Arts documentary on film director Oliver Stone based around an exclusive interview about his historical epic Alexander.

Anthony Caro talks to Andrew Graham-Dixon - BBC Four
Producer/Director, January 2005, 30 minutes.
30 minute arts documentary about Britain’s most eminent sculptor, Anthony Caro, including extensive access to his North London studio.