Ian O'Reilly

June 2022 - March 2023 (part-time)
BBC Eye - World Service Investigations & Documentary Unit
Series Producer / Senior producer / director
Developing stories for commission and then working on the pre-production of those stories.
Also, working as part of a larger team producing investigative documentaries for radio, television and digital outlets.

September 2021 - March 2022
EcoFlix (NGO)
Commissioner / Series Producer
Commissioning / series producing a slate of new / original programmes / content for the not-for-profit streaming platform.

August 2020 - August 2021
Environmental Investigation Agency (NGO)
Series Producer
Senior Producer / Director / Writer
Series (8 x 15') on the work of the Environmental Investigation Agency in Indonesia over the last 25 years.

1994 - 2019
BBC News & Current Affairs

August 2018 - April 2019
BBC Features Unit
Senior Producer / Director
Working on The Travel Show - regular programme and specials.

January - July 2018
BBC Global Network News (World Service Radio & World News Television)
Commissioning / Series Editing / Series Producing
Alongside Steve Titherington and Mary Wilkinson commissioning, series editing and series producing a global season of programmes / pieces (television, radio & online) to run across all BBC Global News & Current Affairs outlets.
My role was to then develop half of those ideas into workable documentary treatments, put together suitable teams around the person who wrote the chosen idea and from then on to oversee the making of the films / radio documentaries from a production and editorial perspective. In all, in this season produced:
2 x 45' tv docs
6 x 26' tv docs
2 x 26' format factual programmes
6 x 60' radio docs
5 x 26' radio docs
8 x 10' tv features (BBC News YouTube Channel)
And quite a few 2' pieces for digital & social media

January 2009 - December 2012
Our World (4 x 4 month attachments)
Series producing (under former editor Mark Perrow)
Generating documentary ideas and assessing submitted ideas. Commissioning films (often co-commissions with radio) and putting together teams to make them. Working with those teams to ensure they acquire sufficient access to the story and plan / set-up the right sequences and interviews to tell the story. Guiding the teams through changing plans and circumstances.
In post-production, helping the teams to structure and script the film.
At times edit producing the films myself, some highlights include:
Mexico - drug cartels, with Laura Trevelyan (2012)
Russia - Gorbachev profile, parts 1 & 2, with Bridged Kendall (2011)
Syria - story of a civil war, with Sue Lloyd-Roberts (2012)
Uganda - witchcraft, with Chris Rogers (2011)
USA - 9/11 10th anniversary film, with Laura Trevelyan (2011)

April 2006 - December 2017
Senior producer / director / cameraman
HARDtalk on the road - with Stephen Sackur
Series producer and producer / director / second camera on HARDtalk's documentary strand. Recurring themes include energy, climate change, natural resources, politics and civil unrest, some highlights include:
Alaska - climate change and the world's greatest salmon run (2013)
Colombia - on the eve of peace (2015)
DRC - illegal mining, political tensions and the politics of aid (2009)
Equatorial Guinea - inside the secretive state (2013)
Greenland - natural resources and the race for the arctic (2010)
Honduras - drugs, gangs and politics (2012)
Libya - the rise of Marshal Haftar (2017)
Philippines - population growth: battle of church and state (2015)
Russian Far East - Moscow's tilt to Asia (2015)
South Sudan - new nation at war (2014)
Sri Lanka - post-war island, the economy and enter the Chinese (2010)
Tunisia - the revolution, one year on (2013)
Venezuela - a socialist revolution in crisis (2017)
Yemen - the conflict escalates (2012)

HARDtalk - with Stephen Sackur, Zeinab Badawi and Sarah Montague
Booking guests, writing briefs, producing studio programmes and producing / directing location and translation editions of the programme, some highlights include:
Bata - President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea (2013)
Bogota - President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia (2015)
Juba - President Salv Kiir of South Sudan (2014)
London - Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad (2016)
Sydney - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia (2011)

Newsnight / Our World - with Sue Lloyd-Roberts
Producing / directing / filming (including secret filming) films on themes of foreign affairs, social justice and human rights, some highlights include:
Burma - after the uprising (2007)
Burma - elections Junta style (2010)
Ireland - Magdalene survivors (2014)
Nigeria - battle for the oil rich delta (2009)
Vietnam - illegal trade in rhino horn (2014)
Vietnam - former GIs return to Saigon (2014)

World Debate / Global Questions - with Zeinab Badawi
Producing editions of the 45' location international discussion programme (a moderator with several guests) on a variety of themes, some highlights include:
Accra - development in Africa (2008)
Cape Town - Zimbabwe in meltdown (2007)
Port of Spain - the future of the Commonwealth (2009)

April 1996 - March 2006
BBC News - World Affairs Unit
Producer / director / cameraman
with Sue Lloyd-Roberts (1995 - 2015)
Finding and researching stories. Producing / directing / filming (including secret filming) and edit producing features for The Ten O'Clock News and films for Newsnight and the Reporters Special strand on themes of personal freedom and human rights, some highlights include:
Botswana - plight of the Bushmen (2005)
Burma - doing business with the Junta (1997)
Iran - reformers versus hardliners (2002)
Mali - how western subsidies impact African farmers (2003)
Nepal - Maoist insurgency, parts 1 & 2 (2001 & 2006)
Moldova - children in prison (2001)
Romania - buying babies (2000)
Russian Far East - the new gulags (1999)
Sri Lanka -child fighters and the war (1998)
Turkey / Moldova / Israel - illegal human organ trade (2001)
Turkish Kurdistan - honour killings (2005)
UK / Pakistan - forced marriage, parts 1 & 2 (1999 & 2000)
UK - Glasgow's heroin problem (1999)
Zimbabwe - election time (2005)