AboutAmanda

Amanda is a multiple award-winning documentary producer and presenter. She believes that the environmental crisis is the most newsworthy and consequential issue of our times.

Inspired by stories of positive environmental action, Amanda creates films that focus on the fight to heal the Earth, and stories of the people engaged in it. She has fled from crime lords in tribal India with a camera on her shoulder, climbed vertical crevasses using crampons to obtain footage from the top of a 5,400m glacier in Peru, interviewed heroin dealers in north London alongside veteran broadcaster Rageh Omaar, and reported solo from Bhutan on the plight of displaced Lhotshampa refugees. In an especially personal piece for the Al Jazeera Correspondents series, she underwent mature oocyte cryopreservation – freezing of her eggs – while presenting to camera. Other productions include Harem: Sultanate of Women for Channel 4, plus Stick Thin in India and Women in Black: Yemen for the BBC.

A graduate of Clare College, Cambridge with a degree in history, Amanda speaks Turkish, Italian and French plus conversational Hindi and Urdu. She currently works between London and Qatar as the executive producer for Al Jazeera English’s flagship environmental documentary earthrise. The series was recognised no less than eight times at the most recent (2020) New York TV and Film Festivals Awards, and won in the ‘Politics and Business’ category at the 2019 Association of International Broadcasters Awards (AIBs). At One World Media 2018 in London, earthrise won the Women’s Entrepreneur’s Reporting Award for Water Wise Women.

Amanda travels on location with the North Face rucksack she purchased with a graduate grant, and her Sony PMW 200 camera. Follow Amanda on Instagram to see her photos or hear about her latest work, and see a selection of her films on YouTube.