A PROFILE OF THE PRODUCTION TEAM
THE DIRECTOR
Callum Macrae has been making films for 20 years in the UK and around the world, including Iraq, Japan, Haiti and several in Africa – covering wars and conflicts in Cote D’Ivoire, Uganda, Mali, and Sudan. His films include three major investigations into allegations of coalition crimes in Iraq. His work ranges from investigative to polemical to light-hearted, but usually with a focus on the unheard and disenfranchised.
His current project is the feature documentary, No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka, the Grierson-nominated culmination of three years work which included two documentaries on the end of the war in Sri Lanka for Channel 4 in the UK.
He also recently completed an expose of Khartoum's war on the Nuba people of South Kordofan for Al Jazeera. He’s a Bafta nominee and has won a large number of awards including two Royal Television Society awards, two One World awards, an Indie award, an Amnesty award and in the US the Columbia DuPont Broadcast journalism award for his work in Japan after the Tsunami and a Peabody Award for his work on Sri Lanka.
As a writer in Scotland he won the Campaigning Journalist Award – and was this year presented with a Scottish Bafta Special Achievement Award. Last year he was named by Broadcast Magazine as one of the two top television directors across all genres in the UK. He trained as a painter at Edinburgh College of Art, was a dustman for two years and has been an art teacher and a political cartoonist.
Twitter @Callum_Macrae
THE PRODUCER
Zoe Sale is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. She worked on both previous UK TV documentaries about Sri Lanka. For the last twelve years she has been making current affairs and factual programming for the BBC, ITV, ITN, C4, C5 and National Geographic. Before training as a journalist she worked as a political researcher and environmental lobbyist.
THE EDITOR
Michael Nollet began his career assisting in the cutting rooms of Michael Winterbottom (24-Hour Party People), Andrea Arnold (Red Road, Fish Tank) and Ridley Scott (Kingdom of Heaven).
His work editing feature-length documentary includes "100 Doors" (Nominated for Best Feature Documentary, British Independent Film Awards), "Moving to Mars" (Worldwide Version), "9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers" (Darlow Smithson Productions) and "Windscale: A Nuclear Disaster" BBC
