I’m a video editor with 20+ years’ experience across documentary, factual, and digital content, including YouTube and traditional broadcast for major international channels (PBS, BBC World, Channel 4, ZDF). My background includes editorial storytelling, post-production finishing (including grading), and deep archive and media workflow expertise—supported by award-winning productions, including an Emmy in documentary.
I currently own and edit at Lodge Studio (West London), specialising in factual and archive-rich projects, including archive digitisation, legacy tape transfer, and media management/storage infrastructure. I also freelance on branded digital series and corporate short-form films, combining historical accuracy and audience-first pacing for clarity, tone, and sensitivity.
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Working with corporate clients such as Adobe, VISA, Travelopia and Starbucks. Creating content for internal communications and external use.
A heart-felt documentary that tells the true story of the Chatto family, a Yazidi clan from Sinjar (Shingal), northern Iraq, who survived the brutal 2014 invasion and genocide carried out by the extremist group Islamic State (ISIS). 
The film follows the family’s flight from persecution, enslavement and near-certain death as ISIS overran their homeland - a campaign in which thousands of Yazidis were killed, and many women and children were abducted and sold as slaves. 
What makes this documentary especially powerful is that filming had begun with the Chattos months before their capture, and the narrative traces their separate survival journeys and desperate attempts to reunite in Europe. Through their experiences, the film offers a personal and human portrayal of the horrors faced by the Yazidi community and the courage it takes to escape, recover and rebuild after genocide and displacement. 
It has been shown internationally, including multiple broadcasts on BBC World and BBC Arabic as well as screenings at the UN in Washington and United States Institute Of Peace helping raise global awareness of the Yazidi plight and the ongoing impact of ISIS’s crimes.
A long-term multimedia project dedicated to recording, preserving and sharing the lived history of the Kurdish people, especially in the 20th and 21st centuries, through first-hand testimony, film, interactive media and digital archiving.
Kurdistanmemoryprogramme.com
The History Hit - Echoes Of History and Assasin’s Creed YouTube channels blends gaming and real-world history, using Assassin’s Creed as a jumping-off point to educate viewers about fascinating historical narratives and contexts. Winner of the Best Branded Podcast award in 2026
A documentary film broadcast on BBC World, that follows the long, difficult process of Sierra Leone’s recovery from its brutal civil war. Documenting how individuals and communities worked to rebuild their lives and society in the years after the conflict. It was filmed over several years to capture both the lasting effects of the war and the efforts toward renewal.
Documentary film showing how a team of investigators set off on a dangerous journey across Iraq to find out what exactly happened to 8,000 Kurdish men and boys who went missing in the early years of Saddam’s rule.
Broadcast internationally of PBS Frontline World and Channel 4 in 2006. Winner of an Emmy award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.
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