Duration: 18.18
Rioters speak for the first time about why they took part in the summer 2011 disturbances, the most serious bout of civil unrest in Britain in a generation.
Guardian reporter Paul Lewis presents the findings of a Guardian and London School of Economics study that reveals how the riots in England were sparked by poverty, injustice and a visceral hatred of the police.
This film was shown on Newsnight, the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs programme, in December 2011.
Shot and co-produced by CR.
Duration: 5.38
Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell tries to capture ‘petulant and impatient’ Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats and deputy prime minister, at the Lib Dems’ 2011 party conference in Birmingham, UK.
Duration: 9.52
Human Rights Watch reveals a huge archive of footage and images detailing Muammar Gaddafi’s brutal reign over Libya, not least the infamous showtrial and public hanging of Sadiq Hamed Shwehdi, witnessed by pupils herded into Benghazi’s basketball stadium to watch the incident in 1984.
Duration: 12.38
In an insight into a blind woman’s life, Diane Marks, wearing a headcamera, illustrates how she will be affected by the UK government’s proposed disability benefit cuts.
Duration: 12.32
“Brilliant.”
@theharryshearer (actor of Mr Burns in The Simpsons; actor of Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap and its co-writer)
Republicans were arrested while thousands of royalists took to the streets of London to celebrate William and Kate’s marriage.
Co-shot and co-edited by CR.
Duration: 15.45
A day with London’s Territorial Support Group (TSG) as its members police the March for the Alternative protest against government spending cuts.
Duration: 9.23
“A great piece, tackled very sensitively.”
(Richard Bottomley, VJ Movement.com)
Barbara Blaine, a survivor of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest, has travelled from Chicago for the Pope’s UK visit with a mission to stop abuse in the church.
Duration: 4.27
Japan’s traditional Kabuki theatre has men playing female roles, similar to traditional Shakespeare. One actor, Nakamura Shibajaku VII, reveals all about this ‘onnagata’ role and his transformation.
Duration: 8.14
The Guardian’s environmental columnist George Monbiot challenges Boris Johnson’s green policies for London in an extraordinary meeting of city leaders at Copenhagen’s Climate Summit for Mayors 2009.
Co-shot and co-edited by CR.
Duration: 9.37
On a day when NGOs were given limited access to the United Nations summit, protesters marched on the Bella Center conference venue to reclaim the climate debate back to the people most affected.
Co-shot and co-edited by CR.
