A selection of films all filmed and edited by me. To see the films scroll right starting with a showreel of clips.
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A showreel of clips from films that I have shot and edited for numerous clients across the globe.
In Hot Water: Glacier retreat in the Peruvian Andes
The film was shortlisted for the category of Best Climate Emergency Film award at the Arts and Humanities Research film awards 2020. In Hot Water presents the inter-disciplinary Uk/Peruvian research project "CASCADA" (led by Jemma Wadham/Raul Loayza and funded by the Newton Fund) which studies the impact of glacier retreat on local communities in the Peruvian Andes. It features the performance of "The Sad Tale of a Dying Glacier" by Erika Stockholm. Filmed and edited by Jon Spaull.
Following the UK-Brazil CADDE project as it responds to (re-)emerging disease outbreaks in Brazil. The project was funded through the Newton-Caldas Fund.
Alpine Seed Conservation
The Alps are one of the most biodiverse regions in Europe, and are home to a staggering 4,500 plant species. But climate change and the development of tourism in the Alps is threatening the Alpine habitat and its plants.
Peace with Nature
In 2016 a peace agreement was signed with the largest guerrilla group in Colombia: FARC - ,which aimed to end 50 years of armed conflict. FARC agreed to disarm and it's former combatants are now looking to reincorporate into society. This was the shorter square format social media version.
A selection of clips taken of the British Council sponsored UK/Ukrainian Season of Culture. I was commissioned to take both video and stills of the performances and artists in various locations across the country. All clips ©BritishCouncil.
Ghana's gold diggers: Scramble comes at high cost
People have mined for gold in what is now Ghana for thousands of years. The precious metal has always been easy to find, hence the name the British gave the country when they colonised it: the Gold Coast. This four-part film series, made for SciDev.Net, investigates the role of illegal, small-scale mining — an increasingly important part of Ghana’s gold producing industry — and its impacts on human health and the environment.
Marshall Scholar Kobi Felton
A film shot for the Marshall Scholarship of Kobi Felton, an American MPhil scholar studying at Cambridge University.
Marshall Scholar Frank Smith at Oxford University. A film commissioned by the Marshall Scholarship to promote the scheme to prospective students at US universities, especially those from less privileged backgrounds.
A film commissioned by VSO on their programme helping to improve the training of young people in Uganda. In the Albertine region of Uganda oil has recently been discovered. VSO are working with Vocational Training Institutes to ensure young people can take advantage of the employment opportunities that will arise from oil exploration.
A film commissioned by IPPF on a young man and orphan living with HIV in Nepal who has used his talent for singing to change attitudes towards HIV.
It pays to stay sharp
The story of an industry dominated by the descendents of one man, who at the end of the 19th century walked out of his village in the Dolomites to make his way across Europe to Deptford. His sole companion his trusted grindstone. A tale of family, immigration and technological development
Official selection Trento Film Festival 2014
Thames Herring
Official selection London International Documentary Festival 2011.
A film following Andrew French and his son as they fish for Herring in the Thames Estuary. A once thriving fishery, theirs is the only boat still commerically fishing for Herring out of West Mersea, Essex.
Coaching Ugandan girls to play football and be healthy.
A film for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission on alumna, and former Ugandan national team football coach Majidah Nantanda. She is coaching girls from a poor area of Kampala, Uganda to play football while also teaching them about sexual health.
Urban 95 Bogota
A film for the children’s NGO, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation on Urban 95 in Bogota, Colombia. Urban 95 is a project that through urban planning is transforming the way in which young children and their families can live, play in and move around one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Bogota.
Becoming a top female fisheries researcher in Kenya
In this film, part of SciDev.Net’s series Africa’s PhD renaissance, scientist Nina Wambiji talks about how the support she has received from AWARD (African Women in Agricultural Research and Development) has helped her become a leading researcher in her field. The film follows Wambiji as she works with a fishing community in Msambweni and back in her lab in Mombasa.
LendwithCare
A film made with ITN newsreader Alastair Stewart, of Care International UK’s Lend with Care project in Srebrenica, Bosnia. Funded in conjunction with the Cooperative Bank.
The film was shown on the Guardian’s website.
Marshall Scholar Sandra Dorning, York University. A film commissioned by the Marshall Scholarship to promote the scheme to prospective students at US universities, especially those from less privileged backgrounds.
This film explores how Uganda’s National Slum Dwellers Federation (NSDF) is working with local NGO ACTogether to mobilise slum communities in Kampala. It focuses on the informal settlement of Kibuye, one of Kampala’s 63 slums, capturing everyday life and documenting how technology is helping the community participate in decisions that affect their quality of life.
Rose D'Orient
A film made for the owners of the traditional Riad, La Rose D’Orient, Marrakech, Morocco. Music by Jim Howard.
Africa builds the world's largest radio telescope
In 2012, South Africa won the bid to host the largest part of the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project. It will consist of more than 2,500 telescopes spread out across the nation and partner countries in Africa.
This film explores how the project — as well as unlocking some of the mysteries of the universe — will lead to South Africa and its African partners acquiring the technological and scientific research skills needed to contribute to today’s global knowledge economy.
Battle against time to bank world's threatened seeds
The Kew Millennium Seed Bank is the hub of a global conservation network that aims, by 2020, to store a quarter — or 75,000 — of the world’s plant species, with a particular focus on the most endangered, economically important and endemic. It is, as its director Jonas Mueller describes, “the biggest conservation project on earth”.
This video,swings open Kew’s doors to delve deep into the laboratories and icy bunkers of the seed bank and speak to the scientists entrusted with collecting and protecting the seeds.
