People:
Ron McCullagh
Before founding Insight News Television in 1991, Ron McCullagh worked
as a reporter for the BBC for 10 years. He started his career as a
local radio reporter for Radio Lancashire in 1980. From 1984 to 1989 he
worked as a reporter for BBC Radio 4's 'Today Programme' covering
national and international stories. He then worked for a year on BBC
Television's 'Breakfast News' as a reporter and was one of the first
journalists to do his own filming on a Hi8 camera. He has written for
numerous publications including The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph.
Awards: In 1982 Ron McCullagh won the Medical Journalists Association
Radio Documentary of the Year Award. In 1989 Ron McCullagh was
nominated by the BBC for the Sony 'Radio Journalist of the Year'
awards, in 1998 at the One World Broadcasting Trust Media Awards he won
the UNICEF UK Award for the Advancement of Children's Rights for the
report on child workers in Bangladesh which he reported, filmed,
produced and edited and in 2000, the documentary Cry Freetown with
Sorious Samura which he directed has so far won 14 major awards -
including an Emmy and a BAFTA.
Sorious Samura
Sierra Leonean Sorious Samura is a filmmaker of international renown
whose documentaries have been recognised worldwide, both for the
courage of their photographic journalism and the impact of their
message. Having made documentaries and programmes for various media
outlets, he now resides in the UK and is board member of Insight News
Television.
Samura's debut documentary 'Cry Freetown', a brutal and gripping
portrayal of atrocities committed during Sierra Leone's civil war.
Risking his life to film the systematic murder of his fellow
countrymen, Samura describes what he calls "a nation that was being
murdered, a country that was dying, that was being left to die by the
western world, by the so called developed world".
Samura's films have won many prestigious awards including: a BAFTA, two
Emmy Awards, and three Amnesty International Media Awards.
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