After a degree in International Relations at Sussex University, I began freelancing from post-war Beirut for the New Statesman and a number of other magazines.

I moved into television, running undercover investigations for C4's Dispatches and ITV's World In Action, specializing in investigating the illegal arms trade. The Torture Trail, an award-winning expose of British Aerospace's supply of torture equipment to rogue regimes around the world, led to a major change in EU export policy and a six-month Amnesty International campaign.

As part of a major World In Action investigation, I had the pleasure of training Nobel Peace Prize Winner (and future East Timorese President) Jose Ramos Horta to assume the role of an arms dealer in order to expose secret British arms supplies to Indonesia, then occupying Ramos's homeland, East Timor.

I then spent four years devising satirical stunts to expose wrong doing in high places for The Mark Thomas Comedy Product, a cult C4 series - which broke numerous front page stories, led to changes in tax laws, and the resignation of two cabinet ministers. My own two-part special, which used a fictitious PR firm to expose techniques arms dealers use to deal with the press, was awarded a Special Commendation by Amnesty International, and the "Golden Boot" award from Privacy International.

I've produced and directed a number of award-winning films with journalist John Pilger, covering international issues from as far apart as Palestine, Afghanistan and South America. One of those films, Stealing A Nation, is an expose of how the British government effectively stole the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia from its residents to make way for an American airbase. The film is widely seen as playing a major role in the legal victory of the islanders at the United Nations in 2018, after a thirty-year struggle for the return of their islands.

I have made films for all the major American and UK networks, including numerous self-authored pieces involving subjects as diverse as serial killers in American prisons to cannabis smoking grandmothers in south Wales.

In 2007, I began shooting drama documentaries, and have run large drama shoots across the world, including the Kalahari desert in Namibia, maximum security prisons in Argentina, and offshore nighttime shoots in South Africa and Morocco.

I am particularly drawn to combining different genres and filming styles, bringing the best of journalism and a visual flair to the ultimate aim of telling stories and engaging people.

My most recent film, the drama documentary Under The Wire (2018) drew on that range of genres to tell the story of renowned war correspondent Marie Colvin's final assignment to Syria in 2012. It was released theatrically in both the UK and America, receiving widespread acclaim.

I have given talks and spoken about film making and journalism in over twenty countries, for numerous organisations including the British Council and the United Nations.

In 2018, I received the Phoenix Award at the Cologne Film festival for "an outstanding contribution to film and television".