Referees
Ben De Pear
Basement Films
59 Brewer Street
London
07817 627049
Alex Gardiner
Rare TV
MD Rare TV
Audrey House,
Ely Pl,
London EC1N 6RY
07956 825930
Jane Merkin
Exec Producer
07767 390319
Employment History
2014 PAKISTAN'S WOMEN: PUNISHED FOR LOVE (BBC Worldwide)
(Producer/Director/Camera) - 30mins - Our World's Yalda Hakim gains rare access to Pakistan's largest women's jail. The women she meets there, and elsewhere in Karachi, give a fascinating insight into the place of women in Pakistan society.
2014 WELCOME TO SPARKHILL (BBC Development)
2014 PAKISTAN'S WOMEN: PUNISHED FOR LOVE (BBC Worldwide)
(Producer/Director/Camera) - 30mins - Our World's Yalda Hakim gains rare access to Pakistan's largest women's jail. The women she meets there, and elsewhere in Karachi, give a fascinating insight into the place of women in Pakistan society.
2014 WELCOME TO SPARKHILL (BBC Development) (BBC)
(Producer/Director/Camera) - A development following the residents of Birmingham Sparkhill, where in 2014 local schools were put into special measures for breeding extremism.
2014 IMMIGRATION STREET (Love Productions/Channel 4)
(Producer/Director/Camera) - Following the residents of Newtown, Southampton, who live in one of the country's most diverse neighbourhoods.
2014 THE MEN WITH MANY WIVES (Shiver/Channel 4)
(Producer/Director/Camera) - 60min - Ob-doc. As more and more Muslims look to enter polygamous relationships, the ob-doc film follows married couples who are looking for another someone special using the services of a polygamy bureau in east London 2014.
2014 BORDER LINES (3Di/BBC)
(Director/Camera) - 60min - Ob-doc following those who work on and use the train between Lahore, Pakistan and Delhi, India.
2013 SACRED JOURNEYS (Maya International/PBS)
(Director Of Photography) - 60 Mins - Ob-doc, following a group of American pilgrims from Boston as they make the journey of a lifetime to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj.
2013 BADAM ZARI (BBC Development)
(Producer/Director/Camera) - Pakistan election film for BBC's Our World strand and Newsnight profiling the first woman in history to stand for election from Pakistan's tribal area.
2013 WHO IS HASSAN BUTT (BBC Storyville)
Renegade Pictures
(Producer/Director/Camera) -
A film investigating the life of Hassan Butt, one of Britain most well known Muslim extremists.
2013 THE HAJJ (Ch4 Development)
Love Productions
(Producer/Director)
For Muslims around the world the Hajj is the journey of a lifetime. In this unique film six non-Muslims who think negatively of Islam will accompany a group of British Muslims on the Hajj.
2012 NEWLYWEDS
Monkey Kingdom
(Producer/Director/Co-Camera) - Eight part ob-doc series following newlyweds in their first year of marriage.
2012 THE WESTENDERS (Ch4 Development)
Fresh One
A six-part ob-doc series following the lives of actors, producers and agents working in London's theatre-land.
2012 - THE POLYGAMY BUREAU
BBC Wonderland
(Producer/Director/Camera)
Looking at polygamy in the UK's Muslim community.
2011 - IN THE NAME OF THY LORD
Guardian Films
(Director/Camera/Editor)
A day in the life of one of Britain's newest Muslim Primary School.
2011 - TICKING BOXES
TDA
(Producer/Director/Camera)
A film to following the lives of three ethnic minority teachers to encourage others to join the profession.
2010 - MUSLIM RESISTANCE
Guardian Films
(Director/Camera/Editor)
- A series of short films which follow Muslims taking on extremists in their community.
2010 - A To Z OF BRITISH ISLAM
BBC World, Al Jazeera
(Director/Co-Camera)
- This film follows two Muslim women as they explore what it means to be means to be a Muslim in the UK and how they really feel about living and practising their faith in Britain.
2009 - ICECREAMIST (SELFRIDGES LONDON)
(Producer/Director/Camera)
- A viral for a new Iceream palour opened at the London department store.
2009 - OSAMA BIN EVERYWHERE *
Channel 4
(Producer/Director/Camera) - 60mins
- Human stories of Muslims named Osama across the world.
* Sheffield Film Festival Official Selection
* Nominated BIMA 2008
2008 - DIVORCE SHARI'A STYLE
Channel 4
(Director/Co-Camera) - 60mins (DVCam)
- A film following the workings of Britain's first Shari'a Court in Leyton, East London.
2008 - DANNY DYER'S DEADLIEST MEN: VIC DARK
Bravo
(Associate Producer/Co-Camera) - 60mins
- Danny Dyer meets Vic Dark, a convicted armed bank robber from London, and gives us a insight into what it means to be one of the countries most feared men.
2008 - DANNY DYERS DEADLIEST MEN: BRADLEY WELSH
Bravo
(Producer/Co Camera) - 60mins
- Danny Dyer meets Bradley Welsh, who in the 80s and 90s ran a football firm in Edinburgh. Now a boxing trainer he works to pull other kids away from football hooliganism.
2006 - JIHAD TV
Channel 4
(DV Director) - 60mins (DVCam)
Film looking at the world of jihad recruitment videos and how they're accessed and who's watching them and why, here in the west and in the Muslim world.
2006 - RE-LIVING ISLAM
(Producer/Director/Camera)
A series following Professor Akbar S. Ahmed as he travels across the Muslim world to see how Muslims perceive the West and vice versa.
2005 - MY BROTHER MY ENEMY*
NFTS
(Producer/Director/Co-Camera) - 46mins (Digibeta/DVCam)
A Pakistani, Masood Khan, and an Indian, Kamaljeet Negi, visit each other's countries for the first time during the Indian cricket team's first tour of Pakistan in 15 years. Part of BBC India/Pakistan series 2007.
*Royal Television Society Award Nomination (2006)
*Shortlisted Best Newcomer Grierson Award (2005)
*Best Debut Film - South Asian Film Festival Kathmandu (2005)
*Commendation - RAI Film Festival (2005)
2005 - SAY IT LOUD
Kind Of Blue Media
(Director/Camera/Editor) - A series of 5 short films exploring notions of identity and what it means to a majority black community in south London, through the eyes of children.
2005 - THE ESTATE WE'RE IN
Kind Of Blue Media (Camera) - (DVCam)
Kids from a north London housing estate speak about life on the estate.
2005 - CAMDEN TALKS
Camden Borough Council
(Camera/Editor) - (DVCam) - A panel of Camden residents speak out about life in Camden and how the council can help improve their lives.
2005 - YOUTH VOICES
(Producer/Director/Camera) - (DVCam) - Following eight Muslim kids as they produce an Album, put on a show and talk candidly about what it's like growing up a Muslim in the UK. The first project of its kind in the UK, it has attracted much controversy from the Muslim community who have deemed it UnIslamic.
2005 - NICK BROOMFIELD
BAFTA TRIBUTE BAFTA
(Co-Director/Co-Camera) - 90mins (DVCam) - Nick Broomfield is honoured by Bafta and chats to Mariella Frostrup about his long and distinguished career.
2005 - UMAR AND I
NFTS Production
(Producer/Director/Camera) - 20mins (Digibeta/DVCam) - The life of two British born Muslims with remarkably similar background. One of these men, Omar Khan Sharif became the first British suicide bomber in Israel, and I, Masood Khan, became a film maker.
2004 - OUR LEFT FOOT
Fulcrum TV
(Co-Director/Co-Camera) - 106mins (Digibeta/DVCam) - Celebrating the life and work of Paul Foot, writer campaigning journalist, orator and revolutionary socialist.
2004 - LORD'S TABLE CRICKET
MASK Films
(Director/Camera/Editor) - 7mins (DVCam) - Promotional video for The Lord's Taverner's table cricket tournament for disabled children, held each year at Lord's cricket ground.
2004 - ARTIS
MASK Films
(Director/Camera/Editor) - 7mins (DVCam) - Promotional video for a performing arts company, Artis, who train performing artists to work with primary school children.
2003 - THE JOY OF CURRY
BBC
(Runner/Researcher) - 60mins (Digibeta) - Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Anthony Worrell Thompson are amongst the celebrities who help explain the reasons why curry is the UK's favourite dish.
2003 - BREAKING THE MOULD
BBC
(Runner/Researcher) - 60mins (Digibeta) - A look at the achievements of Asians in the public eye featuring comedienne Shazia Mirza, Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha, and MP Parmjit Dandha
2003 - TO BE READ IN THE MORNING AND AT NIGHT
NFTS Production
(Producer/Director) - 3mins (Super16mm) - The experience of the south Asian immigrant communities in the UK, are they integrating?
2003 - DAVE TO DAUD
NFTS Production
(Producer/Director/Camera) - 10mins (DVCam) - Following the story of Dave, a young actor who is considering becoming a Muslim. But is it for the right reasons?
2002 - THE GENERAL'S ELECTION
(Co-Director/Co-Camera/Co-Producer/Co-editor) - 55mins (DVCam) - Following four Pakistanis from different backgroundss they prepare to vote in Pakistan's first general election since the overthrow of its' democratic government, by Genral Pervaz Musharraf.
2002 - WOMEN IN ISLAM
Third World Newsreel
(Producer/Director/Camera) - 20mins (DVCam) - Looking at the role of women in Islam, in particular issues such as the hijab and their rights to education and work.
2001-2002
Nortel Networks - Hardware engineer working on VoIP hardware.
Equipment
Cameras - FS7, FS5
Canon C300 Mk1 & Mk2 XF305
Edit - Final Cut Pro X,
Sound - Most sound modules including SQN and Audio Devices.
Additional Information
Industries
Corporate, Online, TV
Programme Types
Arts, Biography, Corporate, Current Affairs, Daytime, Documentary, Docusoap, Education, Historical Documentary, Investigative, Music, New Media, News, Observational Documentary, Religion, Science, Travel, Youth
Specialisms
Anthropology, Asian Britain, Aviation, Cinema/Film, Community, Computer Gaming, Corporate Films, Crime, Current Affairs, Drugs, Education, Electronics, Engineering, Ethnic, Final Cut Pro, Human Rights, International Affairs, Internet, Journalism, Maths, Middle East, Music, New Media, News & Current Affairs, Pakistan, Islam, People Finding, Police, Politics, Religion, Science, Social Anthropology, Social Issues, Undercover Investigation, Youth Culture