Meet the Trainers
As part of the Student Media Programme, One World Media is running a series of workshops for journalism and documentary filmmaking students in the UK. See below for more on the workshop trainers.
James Brabazon
James Brabazon is an award winning frontline journalist and documentary filmmaker. Based in London, he has reported in over 60 countries - investigating, filming and directing in the world's most hostile environments.
During the Liberian civil war, he was the only journalist to film the rebel group fighting to overthrow President Charles Taylor. He spent six months travelling with the rebels over a two-year period. Since 2003 he has worked on independent commissions with Discovery, BBC2 and Channel 4 - where he has made fourteen films (and produced a further ten as deputy series editor) in the critically acclaimed international current affairs series Unreported World.
Also for Channel 4, James has filmed and directed unique material with US troops in Baghdad for Dispatches; reported the inside story of the planned coup in
Equatorial Guinea; and investigated social and political turmoil in France during the Paris riots.
His written work has recently appeared in The Sunday Times, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, The Independent, The Observer and Arena. James guest lectures on journalism in hostile environments at City University, speaks frequently at the Frontline Club Forum and appears as a commentator on international current affairs on CNN, Al Jazeera and the BBC.
Photo credit: ©Tim Hetherington
Sophie Chalk
Sophie Chalk has worked as a producer/director in television and radio since 1989. She started out at the former breakfast station TVam, working her way up from secretary to producer/director and presenter on a daily travel series which took her around the world.
She then moved onto GMTV which won the franchise in 1992, producing and directing features. Following a brief spell there she went on to work at Sky News for 6 years as a producer on the breakfast programme. In 1998 she left Sky to work as head of news at Jazz FM presenting a weekly 4-hour news and music show. After that she had a spell at ITV in Leeds, known then as Yorkshire TV, before setting up Rooftop Productions, an independent production company specialising in making popular programming about the developing world.
After 3 successful series of the children's programme Rooted, which was nominated for many awards, in 2006 she joined the International Broadcasting Trust as Director of Campaigns and now splits her time between lobbying for better coverage of the wider world on UK television and making programmes which hopefully fulfil this ambition.
10 recommended films:
- The Tea Boy of Gaza
- The Last King of Scotland
- When we were Kings
- The Kite Runner
- Baghdad: A Doctor's Story
- The devil came on horseback
- Taxi to the dark side
- The boys from Baghdad High
- Iran and the West
- Saving Africa's Witch Children
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