Hello.

You have arrived at, been directed to or stumbled onto my website. I am a London-based, American-born, freelance producer-director of documentaries. I also shoot them on digital video.

I’ve made programmes for UK broadcast television - Channel Four, BBC2, Carlton - on social issues ranging from the “Comfort Women” of South Korea to the shortage of space in London cemeteries, by way of feminism, autism, alcoholism and the behaviour of bystanders.

I also make non-broadcast films for NGOs, charities and government departments.

I’ve made videos for Christian Aid, the Fairtrade Foundation, Comic Relief, International Planned Parenthood, the Institute of Development Studies, and the Open University.

These projects have taken me to India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Korea, Ethiopia, South Africa, Peru, Georgia and the Caribbean. And of course all over the UK.

My films have been shown at the Toronto Environmental Film Festival, the Edinburgh Film Festival, and the Japan Prize.

A West African Story recently won the UNICEF special prize - for programmes that promote understanding of the lives or circumstances of children in difficult situations, from over 260 entries at the Japan Prize for educational films. You can watch the whole film here.

All photographs: Nancy Platt except: homepage photo by Simon Clark.