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PROJECTS

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Travellers’ Times

& Roma Cultural Routes

I produced, steered and fundraised for Rural Media's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller projects for more than ten years, working closely with Bill Laws, Jake Bowers and Damian Le Bas as editors, employing young Traveller trainees, campaigning for a stronger community voice in the national media, and partnering the Roma Routes project in Europe.

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Producer of the “Over The Hill?” campaign
The Rural Media Company
2009-2012
Responsible for the consultation process, research, production of campaign and showcase films and lobbying activities to raise awareness of getting older in the countryside and of the best innovative rural projects for older people.
www.overthehillcampaign.org.uk

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Writer/Director
TV & Independent Filmmaking
1976-1990

- Most famous film: A MAN’S PLACE? For ITV network 1982 – a sympathetic documentary essay on the state of men post feminism.

- Most censored film: A COMMON CAUSE for ITV network – fly-on-the-wall as Chester women’s peace group walk with their young children to Greenham Common on Hiroshima Day 1983 to protest at the arrival of cruise missiles on British soil.

- Most controversial film: HERE TO STAY documentary following a prosperous Muslim family and their views on England in the year of the Salman Rushdie fatwa in 1989 for BBC 2.

- Most fun film: SURVIVAL early reality TV series watching a group of ordinary people cope with surviving on the land with SAS instructor Lofty Wiseman for BBC in 1985.

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Film Camera Assistant
TV Film Crew
1977-1980
Freelance film camera assistant for BBC, Thames TV, LWT, and United States TV stations, WGBH Boston & ABC New York, working on 16mm film crews, travelling to USA, Middle East, India, Soviet Union, Australia, Nigeria, Europe.

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Organiser
First Festival of Independent British Cinema
1974-1975
With grants from the BFI and the Arts Council, set up selection panel, researched films and organised the 2-week festival at the Arnolfini, Bristol, to which filmmakers came from all around the UK.

Video worker
Community cable TV
1973-1974
Video camera operator for two community cable TV experimental stations (Greenwich Cablevision and Bristol Channel Redifusion).