Jamie is a multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist with a reputation for making films that tell important and challenging stories with emotional depth, cinematic craft and real-world impact.

 

He got his break in TV through a Channel 4 talent scheme and has gone on to produce and direct acclaimed films for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Netflix and Sky.

 

His considered, sensitive approach draws on nearly 15 years’ experience making a broad slate of docs with powerful human stories at their core, including films with vulnerable contributors, immersive access-driven projects and complex investigations.

 

Jamie has filmed all over the world, including remote and hostile regions, worked with big name talent and overseen difficult investigations.

 

His work has won Royal Television Society (RTS), Foreign Press Association (FPA), British Journalism and Wincott awards and has been nominated multiple times for others including: BAFTA, Emmy, Grierson, Amnesty, Broadcast, Rose d’Or, Edinburgh and Prix Europa.

 

Notable recent work includes BAFTA and Emmy nominated The Crossing (2022), which led to the arrest of a wanted people smuggler following the worst maritime disaster in the Channel and prompted a government inquiry into the response from the UK and French coastguards. Libya’s Migrant Hell (2017) was screened in Parliament and cited as evidence at the International Criminal Court and European Council.

 

Jamie is a visually creative, accomplished self-shooter and is comfortable working alone or directing multi camera crews. He has worked on projects as a DoP, including the BAFTA nominated Children of the Cult (2024), which received a theatrical release.

 

He has experience of all stages of production from development to delivering final cut and is at home in the edit, having worked on numerous projects as an edit producer.

 

Beyond broadcast, Jamie has produced branded content, most recently for the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime (GITOC) and NOW: Pensions and he’s written for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Independent, Times among others.

 

Before moving into television Jamie built his storytelling muscles in newspapers. He worked at the acclaimed Camden New Journal, one of the few remaining independent local papers with a reputation for old fashioned shoe-leather reporting and campaigning journalism before working at a press agency and the Sunday Times.

 

Jamie has spoken on various panels including at the Televisual Factual Festival, the House of Commons, Channel 4 and to staff at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and has acted as a mentor to young filmmakers for the One World Media Fellowship programme and for the children’s charity Friendship Works.

 

He lives in London with his partner and their four-year-old daughter.