I’m a video editor and post-production specialist with over 20 years of experience in documentary and factual filmmaking. I excel in editing, media management, archive digitisation and shaping post-production workflows for broadcast and online delivery. I’ve contributed to international productions for BBC, Channel 4, PBS and ZDF, including the Emmy-winning Saddam’s Road to Hell, and I thrive on building robust media systems that support fast-paced editorial teams.
Over the years I’ve led and supported complex projects across archives, legacy tape transfers, and multi-suite setups for museums and major broadcasters. My work balances editorial needs with long-term preservation and accessibility, ensuring materials are ready for exhibition, research and public access while delivering polished, broadcast-ready content.
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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 Echoes Of History YouTube channel blends gaming and real-world history, using Assassin’s Creed as a jumping-off point to educate viewers about fascinating historical narratives and contexts.
A documentary film broadcast on BBC Wotld, 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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