Recent Productions

Channel 4  

Cuba, Basketball and Betrayal: Channel 4, Unreported World, April 12, 2013Ade Adepitan and Director David Fuller travel to Ciego De Avila, home to the best basketball team in Cuba. When some of its players traveled abroad to a tournament last summer, some defected - while the other players returned home. The programme investigates what made the defectors leave their teammates, friends and family forever - and why the others remain loyal to Cuba.

Channel 4  

Gaza's Property Ladder: Channel 4, Unreported World, April 26, 2013Reporter Seyi Rhodes and producer Daniel Bogado travel to Gaza to reveal what must be one of the world's most unlikely property booms. And in this war-torn territory, “Location, Location, Location” means finding an apartment in one of the highly sought after areas which are usually not shelled or hit by missiles – as well as close to a good school and shops.

Channel 4  

Syria's Rebel Doctor: Channel 4, Unreported World, May 03, 2013Reporter Evan Williams and director James Brabazon meet the NHS doctor who is risking his life by providing frontline medical care to the victims of the worsening conflict in Syria. Dr Rami Habib is a pediatrician normally based in Leicester. He’s now living in the northern Syrian town of Salma, which is bombed and shelled by government forces almost every day.  But he’s determined to stay and keep the hospital going.

Channel 4  

Saving Kenya's Street Kids: Channel 4, Unreported World, April 19, 2013Aidan Hartley reports from his home town in Kenya on an extraordinary project to rescue the children who live on its streets.  Together with director Wael Dabbous, Hartley highlights the inspiring work of the Restart Centre in Gilgil, which is providing a safe shelter for children at risk.


The broadcasters we’ve worked with include Channel 4, BBC, PBS (WGBH/Frontline), HBO and CNN.


Over the last six years different films we've made have won prestigious awards, including an Emmy, BAFTAs for best current affairs documentary and best director, two Royal Television Society Awards for International Current Affairs, a Grierson award for best international documentary, the Banff World Television Festival Award for Best Political Documentary, a Wincott award for best TV current affairs,  the One World Media Award for Children's Rights, the Rory Peck Features Award and the Rory Peck Impact Award. We are committed to journalism and film making of the highest standard


Our output includes Unreported World, Channel 4’s acclaimed foreign affairs series, which reports from some of the world’s most difficult and demanding places. Recently, Syria Undercover, made by an Unreported World team and broadcast in the US by PBS/Frontline won a 2012 news and documentary Emmy. Another Unreported World film, Terror in Sudan,  won the prestigious Sony Impact award at the 2012 Rory Peck awards


http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/


Listen to Unreported World on podcast: http://tgr.ph.TYqSMn


LATEST NEWS:  

Unreported World: The Master Chef of Mogadishu awarded the Television Award at the 25th Annual One World Awards (2013)

Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown awarded the Best International Current Affairs Programme at the 2013 Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards 

Somalia: The Master Chef of Mogadishu"'The Master Chef of Mogadishu was a brave piece of film-making that showed a fresh perspective of life in Somalia. Beautifully filmed and observed, it was a story of hope, showing the resilience and bravery of one man determined to play his part in rebuilding his war-torn country. Where some films show people in the developing world as passive victims, here there was a real sense of agency. The jury all agreed that they would never think of Somalia in the same way as a result of having seen this film' - Television Award Jury"25th Annual One World Awards - Winner of the Television Award 2013

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