Documentaries
Hope Frozen - A Quest to Live Twice
Netflix
Executive Producer
2021 International Emmy® Documentary Winner
The incredible and moving story of a two-year-old girl from Bangkok who became the youngest person in the world to undergo cryopreservation. After the little girl's death from brain cancer, her family made the agonising decision to sent the girl’s body to an American laboratory where her head and brain now rest in a cryonic tank in Arizona.
Music for Elephants
SBS AUSTRALIA, RAI ITALIA, NTV JAPAN
Producer/Director
Award-winning and unique film profile of a British concert pianist playing the works of the world’s greatest classical composers to blind, injured and orphaned elephants at a sanctuary on the banks of the iconic River Kwai in Thailand, with extraordinary results. Self-financed and now under worldwide distribution. www.musicforelephants.com
Inside MI5 – The Real Spooks
ITN Factual for ITV Network
Director
Special documentary to mark the centenary of Britain’s Security Service MI5, which includes an interview with a former MI5 Director General who has never spoken publicly on camera before. Narrated by Matthew Macfadyen.
Pandamonium
ITN Factual for Animal Planet International, France 5 & ARTE
Series Producer/Director
Award-winning series of films about endangered giant pandas in China, including a special one hour film about the impact of the devastating Sichuan earthquake. Narrated by John Hannah.
Crime Scene Wild
Animal Planet International / ZDF
Series Producer/Director
Award-winning series of hour long investigative films about the illegal, international trade in endangered species. Filmed all over the world, often undercover the series revealed horrific crimes against the planet's wildlife. Narrated by Helen McCrory
Life – The Silent Crisis
TVE / BBC World
Director
Half-hour documentary with rare access to the Central African Republic; a forgotten country suffering the aftermath of successive coups and civil wars and facing a major health crisis.
Life – Srebrenica Looking for Justice
TVE / BBC World
Director/Narrator
Half-hour film to mark the 10th anniversary of the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and the hunt for the war criminals responsible.
This World – Tiger Traffic
Cicada Films for BBC2 & World
Producer/Director
Award-winning, hour-long documentary following a new breed of armed conservationists from the forests of the Russian Far East to the jungles of Cambodia and the markets of Myanmar. Anti-poaching patrols made up of environmentalists, ex-poachers and military veterans of Chechnya, Afghanistan and Vietnam are waging war on poachers and wildlife traffickers. Includes extensive, secret filming.
The Second Wave
Mentorn for Channel 4
Producer – Russia
Current affairs programme examining the threat from international terrorism in the wake of the New York attacks. Included exclusive interview with senior Russian intelligence officer who claimed to have specifically warned the British and American Governments about a planned attack on both the World Trade Centre and later the G8 summit.
Stalin – Inside the Terror
Granada/BBC2
Producer
Feature length, drama-documentary about the notorious dictator, Josef Stalin. Filmed entirely on location in Russia.
Unreported World – Being Nice to Mr. Putin
Mentorn for Channel 4
Producer/Director
Current-affairs film about the effect of globalisation on Russia and war-torn Chechnya. Considerable risks were taken to gain rare access to film in the capital Grozny, and villages recently attacked as part of “ethnic cleansing” operations by Russian forces.
Out There – Wolfman of Russia
October Films for National Geographic
Producer/Director
Documentary about a former hunter who rescues wild wolf pups in Northern Russia where a state bounty encourages mass killing of grey wolves.
Back to the Wild
Aquila/Cafe Productions for National Geographic
Producer/Director
3 films following different species being rehabilitated and released back to their natural environment. One film focuses on orphaned bear cubs in Northern Russia being rescued from hunters and poachers. The other two films follow the hazards of wild elephant translocation in Malaysia and the rescue of orang-utans in Northern Borneo.
Return to Wonderland
Mosaic Films for BBC2
Series Director
Highly acclaimed series of films about life in “Wonderland” The Russian people’s ironic name for their own Country. Filmed across Russia from Moscow through Siberia to Vladivostok. Stories ranged from an ex-traffic policeman claiming to be Jesus and living on a hill in Siberia to three mothers fighting over the remains of their sons’ bodies from Chechnya.
“Haunting films that have the bitter tang of authenticity about them” – The Times
“Beautifully filmed” – The Sunday Telegraph
“Riveting” – Sunday Times
“Remarkable” – The Guardian
“Fascinating series” – The Independent
Notes from Underground
BBC2
Producer/Director
Highly acclaimed and unique film documentary about Moscow’s homeless, Satanists, neo-Nazis, drug addicts and prostitutes living and meeting underground in tunnels and basements. The film revealed that more than 7,000 people died in appalling filth and squalor in one year. As a direct result of the programme, a charity for homeless people was set-up by former, members of Medicins-Sans-Frontiers.
“One of the best and most moving documentaries seen for a long time. A superb film portrait of the dark lives beneath Moscow streets”. – The Times
“Truly Striking” – Time Out
“Fascinating” – Independent
“Extraordinary” – Sunday Times
Essential History of the Troubles
BBC2
Director
One of a season of acclaimed documentary films marking the 25th anniversary of British troops in Northern Ireland. The film focused on the Unionist and Loyalist perspective.
39 Lebedeva Street
Central / Spiegel TV
Producer/Director
Unique documentary with unprecedented access to follow the desperate lives of mothers and babies imprisoned in a Leningrad jail, at the time of the 1991 Russian coup. Some crimes were petty – one girl had simply stolen a pair of jeans, but another was convicted of murder. Mothers were allowed to keep their babies only until they reached two years of age, when they were forcibly adopted or taken to orphanages.
Skeletons Have Names
Channel 4
Producer
Documentary tracing General Pinochet’s “disappeared” to a German style camp in Southern Chile where victims were subjected to SS style torture.
A Single Pistol Shot
Central TV & Discovery Channel
Associate Producer
Documentary recording the final hours of inmates on death-row, in Moscow’s notorious Butrskaya prison. Concentrating on two murderers; one protesting his innocence and the other unrepentant. Both were given no advance warning of their execution: a single shot in the back of the head.
The Thawing of a Cold War Warrior
Discovery Channel & BBC2
Associate/Line Producer
Award-winning hour-long documentary broadcast around the world. A fascinating account of the life of a Russian General and his daughter who went on hunger-strike for the love of her Jewish dissident husband. Their extraordinary life-story culminated in the General returning to Czechoslovakia to apologise to Dubcek for the Russian invasion.
Alec the Pole
BBC 2
Associate Producer
Documentary about the life of a Ukrainian soldier living under an assumed identity as a Polish exile in Scotland, following the Second World War. More than fifty years later, Alec Kravchenko was reunited with his family in a tiny Ukrainian village where his sisters believed he died a hero of the Red Army alongside his brother. The sad truth was revealed that Alec actually fought for the Nazis.
Dispatches – When Porton Pays the Piper
Channel 4
Associate Producer
Current affairs programme about the British Ministry of Defence secretly funding British Universities to research biological and chemical warfare.
Dispatches – Technology Wars
Channel 4
Associate Producer
Current affairs programme about the former absurd regulations controlling technology transfer to the Eastern Bloc. Two Britons were unjustly imprisoned in Rome for selling personal computers because it was perceived as a major security threat to military and space programmes. (Story also broadcast as Channel 4 special report by ITN)
Dispatches – Backstreet Betting
Channel 4
Assistant Producer
Current Affairs programme about the Italian Mafia’s involvement in illegal gambling in Britain and the huge losses to the Exchequer.
Factual Programmes
Eurocops
Wall-to-Wall for Discovery Channel
Director
Observational 2 hour documentary following Moscow’s police on their daily rounds in the crime-ridden Russian capital.
Britain’s Brilliant Prodigies (International special)
ITV Network
Producer/Director
Profile of Russia’s Sasha Boldachev a brilliant harpist in St. Petersburg who began performing and composing at 5 years old.
Economist TV
Mentorn
Producer/Director
Controversial profile of President Vladimir Putin, and his policies, in the light of the Kursk submarine tragedy and other disasters during the summer of 2000.
Absolutely Animals
Hawkshead for Channel 4
Producer/Director
Short film about tiger poachers and rangers in Primorsky Krai region of Russia’s Far East where poaching is leading to the animal’s extinction and a second short film about Britain’s Horse Whisperer that focused on a horse that had been badly neglected and starved and was terrified of humans. Even though the animal had never been ridden before, the Horse Whisperer saddled and rode her in just 30 minutes.
Travelog
Channel 4
Producer/Director
Short film about the history and culture of Yemen for this popular alternative travel series. Filmed with an entirely female crew and with unprecedented access to Yemeni Muslim women in their homes. Discovered the former Imam’s private collection of lions kept in appalling conditions in the grounds of his palace that culminated in a campaign for the rescue of the big cats by the charity Born Free.
First Sex
Piranha Productions for Channel 4
Producer/Director
Short film for the women’s current-affairs series entitled “All in the mind?” that revealed the high incidence of rape and sexual abuse of women in Britain’s mental health institutions. This acclaimed and disturbing programmed was partly filmed inside Ashworth Hospital, a maximum secure unit where on some wards convicted rapists were encouraged to mix with victims of rape and sexual abuse.
The World This Week
Channel 4
Producer/Director
Special report on the crisis facing the divided the Black Sea Fleet. I obtained unprecedented access to the officers and commanders on both sides and an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev on the anniversary of the Russian coup.
For Love or Money
Wall to Wall for Channel 4
Producer/Director
Short film about the controversy over the authenticity of Michelangelo’s rare painting entitled “Entombment of Christ”, for this award-winning, popular arts series.
In the Lion’s Den
Channel 4
Producer
Outside Broadcast talk-show concerning HIV sufferers in Edinburgh, the former AIDS capitals of Europe.
Splash!
Granada
Producer
Studio-based, magazine programme examining the accuracy of news stories in British tabloid newspapers.
Out of Order
Granada/ITV Network
Series Producer
Prime time, weekly, live, current-affairs programme, which covered everything from consumer rip-offs to tabloid newspaper lies about the Hillsborough football stadium disaster. The series regularly included, live phone-ins and outside broadcasts.
Hope Frozen - A Quest to Live Twice
Netflix
Executive Producer
2021 International Emmy® Documentary Winner
The incredible and moving story of a two-year-old girl from Bangkok who became the youngest person in the world to undergo cryopreservation. After the little girl's death from brain cancer, her family made the agonising decision to sent the girl’s body to an American laboratory where her head and brain now rest in a cryonic tank in Arizona.
Music for Elephants
SBS AUSTRALIA, RAI ITALIA, NTV JAPAN
Producer/Director
Award-winning and unique film profile of a British concert pianist playing the works of the world’s greatest classical composers to blind, injured and orphaned elephants at a sanctuary on the banks of the iconic River Kwai in Thailand, with extraordinary results. Self-financed and now under worldwide distribution. www.musicforelephants.com
Inside MI5 – The Real Spooks
ITN Factual for ITV Network
Director
Special documentary to mark the centenary of Britain’s Security Service MI5, which includes an interview with a former MI5 Director General who has never spoken publicly on camera before. Narrated by Matthew Macfadyen.
Pandamonium
ITN Factual for Animal Planet International, France 5 & ARTE
Series Producer/Director
Award-winning series of films about endangered giant pandas in China, including a special one hour film about the impact of the devastating Sichuan earthquake. Narrated by John Hannah.
Crime Scene Wild
Animal Planet International / ZDF
Series Producer/Director
Award-winning series of hour long investigative films about the illegal, international trade in endangered species. Filmed all over the world, often undercover the series revealed horrific crimes against the planet's wildlife. Narrated by Helen McCrory
Life – The Silent Crisis
TVE / BBC World
Director
Half-hour documentary with rare access to the Central African Republic; a forgotten country suffering the aftermath of successive coups and civil wars and facing a major health crisis.
Life – Srebrenica Looking for Justice
TVE / BBC World
Director/Narrator
Half-hour film to mark the 10th anniversary of the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and the hunt for the war criminals responsible.
This World – Tiger Traffic
Cicada Films for BBC2 & World
Producer/Director
Award-winning, hour-long documentary following a new breed of armed conservationists from the forests of the Russian Far East to the jungles of Cambodia and the markets of Myanmar. Anti-poaching patrols made up of environmentalists, ex-poachers and military veterans of Chechnya, Afghanistan and Vietnam are waging war on poachers and wildlife traffickers. Includes extensive, secret filming.
The Second Wave
Mentorn for Channel 4
Producer – Russia
Current affairs programme examining the threat from international terrorism in the wake of the New York attacks. Included exclusive interview with senior Russian intelligence officer who claimed to have specifically warned the British and American Governments about a planned attack on both the World Trade Centre and later the G8 summit.
Stalin – Inside the Terror
Granada/BBC2
Producer
Feature length, drama-documentary about the notorious dictator, Josef Stalin. Filmed entirely on location in Russia.
Unreported World – Being Nice to Mr. Putin
Mentorn for Channel 4
Producer/Director
Current-affairs film about the effect of globalisation on Russia and war-torn Chechnya. Considerable risks were taken to gain rare access to film in the capital Grozny, and villages recently attacked as part of “ethnic cleansing” operations by Russian forces.
Out There – Wolfman of Russia
October Films for National Geographic
Producer/Director
Documentary about a former hunter who rescues wild wolf pups in Northern Russia where a state bounty encourages mass killing of grey wolves.
Back to the Wild
Aquila/Cafe Productions for National Geographic
Producer/Director
3 films following different species being rehabilitated and released back to their natural environment. One film focuses on orphaned bear cubs in Northern Russia being rescued from hunters and poachers. The other two films follow the hazards of wild elephant translocation in Malaysia and the rescue of orang-utans in Northern Borneo.
Return to Wonderland
Mosaic Films for BBC2
Series Director
Highly acclaimed series of films about life in “Wonderland” The Russian people’s ironic name for their own Country. Filmed across Russia from Moscow through Siberia to Vladivostok. Stories ranged from an ex-traffic policeman claiming to be Jesus and living on a hill in Siberia to three mothers fighting over the remains of their sons’ bodies from Chechnya.
“Haunting films that have the bitter tang of authenticity about them” – The Times
“Beautifully filmed” – The Sunday Telegraph
“Riveting” – Sunday Times
“Remarkable” – The Guardian
“Fascinating series” – The Independent
Notes from Underground
BBC2
Producer/Director
Highly acclaimed and unique film documentary about Moscow’s homeless, Satanists, neo-Nazis, drug addicts and prostitutes living and meeting underground in tunnels and basements. The film revealed that more than 7,000 people died in appalling filth and squalor in one year. As a direct result of the programme, a charity for homeless people was set-up by former, members of Medicins-Sans-Frontiers.
“One of the best and most moving documentaries seen for a long time. A superb film portrait of the dark lives beneath Moscow streets”. – The Times
“Truly Striking” – Time Out
“Fascinating” – Independent
“Extraordinary” – Sunday Times
Essential History of the Troubles
BBC2
Director
One of a season of acclaimed documentary films marking the 25th anniversary of British troops in Northern Ireland. The film focused on the Unionist and Loyalist perspective.
39 Lebedeva Street
Central / Spiegel TV
Producer/Director
Unique documentary with unprecedented access to follow the desperate lives of mothers and babies imprisoned in a Leningrad jail, at the time of the 1991 Russian coup. Some crimes were petty – one girl had simply stolen a pair of jeans, but another was convicted of murder. Mothers were allowed to keep their babies only until they reached two years of age, when they were forcibly adopted or taken to orphanages.
Skeletons Have Names
Channel 4
Producer
Documentary tracing General Pinochet’s “disappeared” to a German style camp in Southern Chile where victims were subjected to SS style torture.
A Single Pistol Shot
Central TV & Discovery Channel
Associate Producer
Documentary recording the final hours of inmates on death-row, in Moscow’s notorious Butrskaya prison. Concentrating on two murderers; one protesting his innocence and the other unrepentant. Both were given no advance warning of their execution: a single shot in the back of the head.
The Thawing of a Cold War Warrior
Discovery Channel & BBC2
Associate/Line Producer
Award-winning hour-long documentary broadcast around the world. A fascinating account of the life of a Russian General and his daughter who went on hunger-strike for the love of her Jewish dissident husband. Their extraordinary life-story culminated in the General returning to Czechoslovakia to apologise to Dubcek for the Russian invasion.
Alec the Pole
BBC 2
Associate Producer
Documentary about the life of a Ukrainian soldier living under an assumed identity as a Polish exile in Scotland, following the Second World War. More than fifty years later, Alec Kravchenko was reunited with his family in a tiny Ukrainian village where his sisters believed he died a hero of the Red Army alongside his brother. The sad truth was revealed that Alec actually fought for the Nazis.
Dispatches – When Porton Pays the Piper
Channel 4
Associate Producer
Current affairs programme about the British Ministry of Defence secretly funding British Universities to research biological and chemical warfare.
Dispatches – Technology Wars
Channel 4
Associate Producer
Current affairs programme about the former absurd regulations controlling technology transfer to the Eastern Bloc. Two Britons were unjustly imprisoned in Rome for selling personal computers because it was perceived as a major security threat to military and space programmes. (Story also broadcast as Channel 4 special report by ITN)
Dispatches – Backstreet Betting
Channel 4
Assistant Producer
Current Affairs programme about the Italian Mafia’s involvement in illegal gambling in Britain and the huge losses to the Exchequer.
Factual Programmes
Eurocops
Wall-to-Wall for Discovery Channel
Director
Observational 2 hour documentary following Moscow’s police on their daily rounds in the crime-ridden Russian capital.
Britain’s Brilliant Prodigies (International special)
ITV Network
Producer/Director
Profile of Russia’s Sasha Boldachev a brilliant harpist in St. Petersburg who began performing and composing at 5 years old.
Economist TV
Mentorn
Producer/Director
Controversial profile of President Vladimir Putin, and his policies, in the light of the Kursk submarine tragedy and other disasters during the summer of 2000.
Absolutely Animals
Hawkshead for Channel 4
Producer/Director
Short film about tiger poachers and rangers in Primorsky Krai region of Russia’s Far East where poaching is leading to the animal’s extinction and a second short film about Britain’s Horse Whisperer that focused on a horse that had been badly neglected and starved and was terrified of humans. Even though the animal had never been ridden before, the Horse Whisperer saddled and rode her in just 30 minutes.
Travelog
Channel 4
Producer/Director
Short film about the history and culture of Yemen for this popular alternative travel series. Filmed with an entirely female crew and with unprecedented access to Yemeni Muslim women in their homes. Discovered the former Imam’s private collection of lions kept in appalling conditions in the grounds of his palace that culminated in a campaign for the rescue of the big cats by the charity Born Free.
First Sex
Piranha Productions for Channel 4
Producer/Director
Short film for the women’s current-affairs series entitled “All in the mind?” that revealed the high incidence of rape and sexual abuse of women in Britain’s mental health institutions. This acclaimed and disturbing programmed was partly filmed inside Ashworth Hospital, a maximum secure unit where on some wards convicted rapists were encouraged to mix with victims of rape and sexual abuse.
The World This Week
Channel 4
Producer/Director
Special report on the crisis facing the divided the Black Sea Fleet. I obtained unprecedented access to the officers and commanders on both sides and an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev on the anniversary of the Russian coup.
For Love or Money
Wall to Wall for Channel 4
Producer/Director
Short film about the controversy over the authenticity of Michelangelo’s rare painting entitled “Entombment of Christ”, for this award-winning, popular arts series.
In the Lion’s Den
Channel 4
Producer
Outside Broadcast talk-show concerning HIV sufferers in Edinburgh, the former AIDS capitals of Europe.
Splash!
Granada
Producer
Studio-based, magazine programme examining the accuracy of news stories in British tabloid newspapers.
Out of Order
Granada/ITV Network
Series Producer
Prime time, weekly, live, current-affairs programme, which covered everything from consumer rip-offs to tabloid newspaper lies about the Hillsborough football stadium disaster. The series regularly included, live phone-ins and outside broadcasts.