Illness and Poverty – Margaret and The Pink Ladies
Inevitably, in the course of revamping my website, I’ve found myself thinking about the amazing projects and people I’ve had the pleasure of working with. One of them was cancer patient Margaret Kelly. In 2010 I made Getting By a documentary about people living beneath the “poverty line” in Britain. At that time one fifth of the country’s 60 million population were considered to be in this…
Canopy and Forest-Free Fashion
For the 2019 series of earthrise we made a film about forest-free fashion. I’d always known that the fashion industry had a huge environmental footprint. After all, it’s worth $1.7 trillion, and much of those gains are because, every year, textile manufacturers make billions of garments which might only be worn once or twice before ending up in landfill. But until I made this film I wasn’t fully…
New earthrise Series
At the time of writing I’m really excited to be producing a new season of earthrise, which will be broadcast on Al Jazeera English early in 2021. It hasn’t been easy commissioning an international series in the middle of a pandemic, with all the obstacles this presents for filming, but I’m hopeful we’ll pull it off. And I’m determined to make it happen. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted how…