Since I have arrived in the UK in 2014, one of the most important stories in current affairs has been the consequences of the ISIS rule on the local population.
I cut three films with Stacey Dooley : two for BBC 3 focused on Yazidi women and one for Panorama on the wives and children who had joined the so-called caliphate and were now staying in camps in Northern Syria after the fall of ISIS.
September 2016: Stacey Dooley embeds herself on the frontline with the extraordinary all-female Yazidi battalion, who are fuelled to take revenge against the so-called Islamic State.
As the battle to take Mosul from Isis advances in Northern Iraq, in this extraordinary film for BBC Three, Stacey finds these young women's lives have been transformed by a desire to avenge their loved ones who were murdered by Isis.
Stacey On The Frontline: Girls, Guns and ISIS
One year on from her first visit, Stacey Dooley returns to Iraq to seek justice for the young women whose lives have been changed forever by ISIS.
In a journey like never before, Stacey joins Shireen - a 23 year old Yazidi woman who was held as a sex slave for over two years by ISIS. Shireen managed to escape while enslaved in Mosul, but many Yazidi woman like her haven’t, and remain in captivity. Shireen is going in search of justice - and she's taking Stacey with her.
Stacey Dooley Face to Face with ISIS
Stacey Dooley travels to Kurdish-controlled northern Syria to holding camps where she meets western women who left their countries to join the so-called Islamic State. For now, the Kurds are containing these women. Some of them are still fervent IS supporters, while others say they just want to come home and face whatever consequences the courts decide. Stacey also finds the camps filled with European children.
The Kurds who are in control of this part of Syria are still fighting Russia and Assad’s forces to the south. They say the western powers should not expect the Kurds to be gaolers on their behalf indefinitely. Panorama explores the question of what to do with the IS women and children left behind.
Panorama: Stacey meets the IS Brides
BBC journalist Basheer Al-Zaidi grew up in Mosul, the Iraqi city taken over by so-called Islamic State in 2014. Now, Iraqi forces are engaged in a fierce battle to retake the city, and eastern Mosul has been freed from IS rule.
Return to Mosul
As they retreat from Northern Iraq ISIS has left thousands of women and children behind. Some are the abandoned families of IS fighters, others were held as prisoners or slaves. There are also boys who were forced to fight for IS. A desperate effort is now underway to reunite these women and children with the families they have been separated from.
Our World: Escaping ISIS
I was also the editor of a number of less sinister films set in every part of the world: Finland, Uganda, Nepal, etc.
Zanskar is one of the most inaccessible settlements on earth: a remote Himalayan Buddhist kingdom little changed in a thousand years. Thirty years ago two American college friends walked for seven days up the frozen Zanskar River to reach an ancient monastery, built into the side of a cliff, at an altitude of 4 thousand metres. Only a few hundred outsiders visit each year, but this is about to change. The first ever road into the region is nearing completion. The two friends have returned to try to find the people they met in 1986 - and to discover what they think about the dramatic changes coming to their valley.
Our World: Return to Zanskar
In a quest to show off new-found wealth or social status, and in a race to out-do their neighbours, people are going to extremes to put on the most lavish wedding. Ugandan nuptials are now big business with big dresses, big venues and big bills.
British-Ugandan journalist Mugabi Turya travels to Uganda to find what it really costs to get married.
British-Ugandan journalist Mugabi Turya travels to Uganda to find what it really costs to get married.
The Price of Love
As climate change affects the livelihoods of Finland's indigenous Sami people, a proposed new Arctic railway, forestry and mining could change Lapland forever.
Climate change affects the Arctic more than any other part of the Earth, and it's been damaging reindeer-herding and fishing - the traditional livelihoods of the indigenous Sami people.
Our World: Fighting for Lapland
In France, my main employer was CAPA. I worked on a very wide range of projects like short films for l’Hebdo du Cinema (Canal +), On Aura Tout Lu (France 5), Off - Secret et Coulisses(France 5), or investigations for Canal + (a double portrait of Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat, an investigation on Silvio Berlusconi, the rise of Moqtada Al-Sadr in 2004). But my most important collaboration was for the Arte Global Mag program, a daily show about sustainability. I also worked on a few shorts for Vox Pop for Arte with Magneto Press.
