FULL CV

DOB: 28.05.79                                      
Director/ DV Director/ Shooting AP/ Researcher/Teacher-Facilitator
Key Skills

Extensive experience in video production, excellent film and HDV shooting skills, a comfortable self-shooting Director/Producer who can edit on both AVID and FCP.

Experience in recording and editing radio and audio sequences, writings short articles for publication, designing, maintaining and producing factual moving image content for websites.

Researching and filming stories in Europe, the US, the Middle East and Asia.

Managing and delivering projects on time with limited budgets and short deadlines.

Wide range of creative filmmaking experience including independent and broadcast documentaries, community and charity videos.

 Communicating, working with, teaching and facilitating people of mixed ages, skills and abilities from diverse ethnic, social and economic groups.

 Up to date CRB check.

 


Professional Experience

2009

CTVC/Truetube (London) – AP/Video Instructor-Trainer on ‘TrueVan’ project, travelling England teaching young people in deprived areas to make social/campaigning films including all aspects of film making and editing. My role also involved delivering video content for Truetube and other video websites. All films were screened at the BFI and can be viewed at www.truetube.co.uk ‘TrueVan’ section.

Danny Weinstein Films - Researcher on various documentaries.

Joanne Ball - Director/Camera/Sound/Editor on 2 short documentaries (in completion), one shot in Aleppo, Syria and one in Hebron, Palestine.

2008

The Rainbow Collective - Editor (FCP).  Editing several short documentaries.

 The Red Room - HDV Camera Operator.  Shooting factual/documentary material for theatre production 'UNSTATED'.

2007
Banyak Films - Researcher/Director. Researching and developing documentary ideas for submission to Al Jazeera English.

 Joanne Ball - Director/Producer/Camera/Sound/Editor on 15' documentary about an illegal immigrant in the UK 'Being Illegal' and 4 minute documentary about a young Afghan's journey to the UK 'ARRIVAL'.

Turner Contemporary - Director/Producer/Camera/Sound/Editor on 6' film document of Norbert Francis Attard's art intervention 'TURN. to colour'.  This film will be screened as part of the ARRIVALS>ART FROM THE NEW EUROPE public exhibition and book launch.

RAW Television - Director/Development Researcher.  Developing ideas for submission to Channel 4's 'First Cut' strand by invitation.

Faction Films - Director/Development Researcher. Researching and developing various observational documentary ideas and writing proposals for broadcast television and BritDoc.

2006
Faction Films - Director/Development Researcher. Researching and developing various observational documentary ideas and writing proposals for broadcast television and BritDoc.

Mental Health Media - Director/Producer/Camera/Sound/Editor  on 5' minute commissioned documentary film for UK wide exhibition and screening at BFI's Southbank.

Goldsmiths College/Joanne Ball - Director/Producer/Camera/Sound/Editor on short 23' documentary 'A Better Life' shot in Murcia, Spain and shown at the London International Documentary Festival, at the NFT, London, at the 3rd Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival, Doha, at MediMed Doc Market, Barcelona and at Cineclub Detour, Rome.

Goldsmiths College/Wildlife Productions - DV Camera Operator on short 35' documentary 'Chocolate City' filmed in Washington DC this documentary explores the growing gentrification of Washington DC and the social and political alienation of its largely black population. Watch trailer here.

2005
Faction Films - Researcher - on short 10' news piece 'Iraqi Women Politicians' for ITN Channel 4 News.

October Films - Development Researcher.  Researching, developing, negotiating access and writing proposals for an observational documentary series for broadcast television.

Joanne Ball - Director/Producer/Camera/Sound/Editor on 2 X 15' independent observational documentaries 'Winter…' and 'The Visitors.'

2004
October Films - Researcher and Additional Sound on 1 x 50' documentary 'The Killer Wave of 1607' (BBC Timewatch).

Century Films - Development Researcher.  Researching and writing proposals for observational documentaries for BBC, ITV and Channel 4.

Films of Record - Development Researcher.  Researching and writing proposals for observational documentaries for BBC, ITV and Channel 4.

Faction Films - Researcher and Additional Camera on 3 x 3' documentary 'What Would Jesus Do?' (C4 Three Minute Wonder).
2003

2003
October Films - Production Co-ordinator/Researcher on documentaries 1 x 60' 'My Life As a Spy' (BBC Storyville), 1 x 60' 'The Asylum Game' (BBC Panorama), 1 x 30' 'Birthday Girls' (C4 ALT TV).

2002
BBC - Camera Trainee on BBC Comedy/Drama series 'Roger Roger'.

BBC - 2nd Boom Operator on BBC Comedy/Drama series 'Roger Roger'

2001
RDF Media - Lighting and Art Department Assistant on Factual series for Channel 4.

Shed Productions/Carlton Television - Camera Trainee on Drama series 'Footballers' Wives' (ITV).

Shed Productions/Carlton Television - Runner on Drama series 'Footballers' Wives' (ITV).



Education
In 2006 I was awarded a MA in Screen Documentary from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Completed Human Rights training with British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) in 2004.

In 2002 I was awarded a BA (Hons) in Radio, Film and Television with American Studies (2:1) from Canterbury Christ Church University.
___________________________________________________________________________________As As a Director I have made many short documentaries that have been screened in festivals around the world including the 3rd Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival in Doha and the British Film Institute's National Film Theatre in London.  My films have been included in festival programmes such as 'Best of UK Shorts' and have won awards including ReelTime Competition 1996/7 Meridian TV Prize for Best Documentary. 

As an AP/Researcher my strengths lie in dealing with people, particularly in sensitive situations, finding contributors, gleaning information and gaining favours.  I have experience of researching stories in the UK, US, Spain, Palestine, Iraq, China and Burma and filming across the Middle East, South East Asia, Europe and the US. I also have experience of negotiating access to institutions, including schools, individuals and dealing with large UK and international broadcasters.

Additional skills
I often self-shoot and have over eight years experience of shooting on the Sony Z1 and PD170 and recording sound using the Sennheiser 416 mic, Evolution radio mics, SQN mixers and DAT recorders.  I now shoot HD on Sony Z1 and A1.

I can be used on location as Additional Camera/Sound or as Shooting Researcher/AP or DV Director.  I am trained and have 7 years experience of handling lighting and grip equipment.

I also have over eight years experience of editing on Avid and two years editing on FCP as well as experience in recording and editing radio and audio sequences using SADIE software, writing short articles for publication, designing and maintaining websites and producing factual moving image content for the internet.

References and DVD-R screeners of my work are available upon request.

I have a full driving licence.