| Production Manager / Untouched / British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust (BSLBT) / Mutt & Jeff Pictures / Oct 2024 to present |
| Production Title: Untouched Company: Mutt & Jeff Pictures Line Manager: Hugh Whitworth Genre: Documentary Sector: Broadcast Television |
| Production Coordinator / Paddy and Chris: Road Tripping / BBC 1 / BBC Studios - Fact/Ents / Apr 2024 to Oct 2024 |
| Production Title: Paddy and Chris: Road Tripping Company: BBC Studios - Fact/Ents Line Manager: Gezz Mounter Programme Length: 60 minutes Season: 1 Genre: Entertainment Factual Entertainment Travel Sector: Broadcast Television |
| Senior Production Coordinator / Blue Carbon: Unleashing Nature's Superpower / CNN / MAKE Waves / Feb 2022 to Oct 2023 |
| Production Title: Blue Carbon: Unleashing Nature's Superpower Company: MAKE Waves Line Manager: Marcos I. O'Donnell Programme Length: Feature Length Genre: Documentary Environment Music Sector: Broadcast Television Description :
Told through the eyes of Grammy-nominated music producer, DJ and marine toxicologist, Jayda Guy, accompanied by a score from the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA and featuring Seu Jorge, Blue Carbon is an environmental documentary that brings together music and science to uncover why listening to nature, and to each other, is key for averting climate catastrophe.
Filmed in the USA, Senegal, Vietnam, France, Colombia and Brazil, the documentary explores the relatively newly-discovered potential of oceans to absorb much more carbon from the atmosphere than even tropical rainforests. This "Blue Carbon" as scientists are now calling it, can be found in salt-marshes, sea-grasses and mangroves, and are becoming increasingly attractive investments for big corporations looking to offset their emissions through carbon credit schemes. This documentary urges us to take stock of nature’s true value by listening to and learning from the communities on the front lines of climate change.
Punctuated with stunning encounters with the natural world - such as the Florida manatee, humpback whales and the American crocodile - and uncovering the unlikely, local communities at the heart of conservation, the film provides a much-needed ray of hope in troubling times. |
| Production Manager / The Longest Day 2 / Channel News Asia / MAKE Waves / Nov 2022 to Oct 2023 |
| Production Title: The Longest Day 2 Company: MAKE Waves Line Manager: Marcos I. O'Donnell Programme Length: 60 minutes Season: 2 Genre: Documentary Environment Sector: Broadcast Television Description :
The Longest Day returns for a second season with stories of families in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, as they confront the effects of extreme heat, volatile weather, and rising sea levels.
Children, born into an uncertain world, grapple with a future in which climate threats cast shadows over their safety and dreams.
For parents, it is an emotional battle as they strive to protect and provide for their families with ingenuity and resolve.
While the elderly, faced with the loss of a world they once knew, draw on experience and resilience to adapt and survive. |
| Production Coordinator / Looted / Channel News Asia / MAKE Waves / Apr 2022 to Oct 2022 |
| Production Title: Looted Company: MAKE Waves Line Manager: Marcos I. O'Donnell Programme Length: 60 minutes Genre: Documentary Sector: Broadcast Television Description :
Since the colonial era, thousands of priceless artefacts have been looted from countries across Asia. Most are kept behind glass or on pedestals in some of the world’s most prestigious museums and art collections.
Across Asia, a movement is growing. A new generation of activists, archaeologists, and social media sleuths are working to get priceless stolen artefacts back. They are gathering first-hand testimonies from looters, with photographic and forensic evidence to prove from when and where they were stolen. Others are putting political pressure on museums using social media to name and shame them and demand the return of the looted statues. |
| Production Coordinator / Dispatches from the Outlaw Ocean / MAKE Waves / Feb 2022 to Oct 2022 |
| Production Title: Dispatches from the Outlaw Ocean Company: MAKE Waves Line Manager: Marcos I. O'Donnell Programme Length: Under 30 minutes Genre: Factual Documentary Investigative Sector: Online Content Description :
The high seas are a lawless frontier where crimes such as murder, slavery and environmental destruction are often met with impunity and overlooked by the media. But the ocean is also a place of discovery and reinvention, offering freedom from the constraints of society.
This 10-part short film series by The Outlaw Ocean Project stems from over a decade of reporting by our columnist Ian Urbina exploring crime on the high seas. The series chronicles a gritty cast of characters including traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, shackled slaves and vigilante conservationists. |
| Junior Production Manager / Cleaning Britain's Greatest Treasures / Channel 4 / Whitworth Media Ltd / Oct 2021 to Feb 2022 |
| Production Title: Cleaning Britain's Greatest Treasures Company: Whitworth Media Ltd Line Manager: Rebecca Chiplen Programme Length: 60 minutes Genre: Documentary Factual Entertainment Sector: Broadcast Television Description :
The two-part series follows the work of some of Britain’s most passionate and dedicated conservation cleaners who are responsible for looking after our national treasures. At locations ranging from stately homes and museums to historic churches and industrial revolution factories, they show the special tools, techniques and tricks of the trade they use to clean and preserve all sorts of historical artefacts. As they work, they share their personal insights into the objects, fascinating little-known gems of history and, sometimes, even solve their mysteries.
Each episode follows the cleaners at three different locations around the UK. Stories in this series include the mystery behind a Constable masterpiece that may be solved by cleaning it; the extremely delicate cleaning of Queen Victoria’s silk laden 1868 Railway Carriage; finding out how to clean the fragile Portland limestone carvings of a London church and the science of removing century-old tea-stains as well as getting insights into where Beatrix Potter got her ideas, and how to clean a pile of antique sand. |
| Production Coordinator / Catching a Killer: The Hwaseong Murders / Channel News Asia / MAKE Waves / Mar 2021 to Aug 2021 |
| Production Title: Catching a Killer: The Hwaseong Murders Company: MAKE Waves Line Manager: Marcos I. O'Donnell Programme Length: 60 minutes Genre: Documentary True Crime Sector: Broadcast Television Description :
It’s South Korea’s most infamous murder case, involving one of the country's first-known serial killers. A notorious killer plagued the rural city of Hwaseong with 10 murders in a mere four years, leading to the largest manhunt the country has ever seen.
Catching A Killer recaps the twists and turns of the police investigation, the vital evidence that was overlooked and the emotional trauma felt in a town where locals were scared to leave their homes.
This original CNA documentary offers a two-part in-depth look at the string of shocking murders, the arrest of 22-year-old Yoon Sung-yeo and the police torture that led to his confession. A confession that put him in prison for 20 years. But with an anonymous tip-off and the discovery of new forensic evidence in September 2019, Yoon’s guilty verdict is put to the test. |
| Production Manager / Undercover Asia: Make Me Taller / Channel News Asia / MAKE Waves / Jan 2021 to Apr 2021 |
| Production Title: Undercover Asia: Make Me Taller Company: MAKE Waves Line Manager: Marcos I. O'Donnell Genre: Factual Documentary Sector: Broadcast Television Description :
An investigation into a growing trend in limb lengthening surgery in India, where men and women, who believe their height is ruining their lives, are having operations developed for those born with deformities, that’s now being used to make people taller. The film follows the progress of two men who have the procedure, watching inside the operating theatre as their surgeon breaks their legs before attaching rods, frames and bolts for the lengthening process to begin. It charts their recovery as they grow a millimetre at a time before struggling to get back onto their feet. It also tracks down another young man who was left crippled by limb lengthening surgery and then examines why height is perceived as being so important in Indian society, talking to agents who cast models and actors in Bollywood about just what is seen as the perfect height and why. |
| Production Coordinator / Race to Feed the World / Channel News Asia / MAKE Waves / Nov 2020 to Jun 2021 |
| Production Title: Race to Feed the World Company: MAKE Waves Line Manager: Marcos I. O'Donnell Genre: Documentary Factual Entertainment Environment Food Sector: Broadcast Television Description :
In the next 30 years, we need to produce more food than we have ever produced in human history. But Asia's food security is already under immense pressure. Land scarcity, climate change, plagues and diseases are reducing yields, devastating food supplies and taking away livelihoods. Yet, there is still hope.
Across Asia, there are scientists, farmers, entrepreneurs and activists racing to provide the food of the future. From China to the Philippines, Indonesia to India, meet offshore seaweed farmers, women's activists, quirky entrepreneurs, cultured meat scientists and locust hunters as they push themselves to find new and innovative ways to farm and produce food. Each person has a different background, story and personal motivation, but all are united by the same goal: averting a major food crisis in the years to come. |
