ABOUT ME

I’ve had the privilege of working as a filmmaker and reporter at the forefront of international storytelling for over two decades. Whether documentary filmmaking, investigations, or digital storytelling, I love the challenge of turning difficult access and complex narratives into compelling films, or even gamified, interactive storytelling projects. I believe in nuance, the challenging of stereotypes, and a way of working that empowers a diversity of voices and contributes to change.  

Having started my career as a researcher and producer, I became a reporter when Channel 4 launched the Unreported World series.  I was in Somalia right after 9/11, exploring why America might retaliate in Africa.  Shortly after, in Germany, I gained unique access to a close family member of one of the World Trade Centre attackers' when researching a drama, and in Congo, Elizabeth Jones and I were the first to break the story of the conflict mineral coltan used in the production of mobile phones. 

After joining Al Jazeera in 2006, I became part of the team that created the original programming content for the channel. Together with Dom Rotheroe I went to Liberia to produce the film that launched the channel’s programming content the day Al Jazeera English went on air. Over the next few years I developed, produced, wrote and reported a global five-part series that explored lawsuits against international corporations and teamed up with Matt Haan to go undercover in Cambodian orphanages to make a film that has been credited with exposing and changing the gap year “voluntourism” industry forever.  Later still, I reported and directed films such as a People & Power episode in Niger that took us deep into the Sahara near the Libyan border to scrutinise the impact of Europe’s changing migration policy.