BAFTA and Multi award-winning documentary film-maker for Erica Starling Productions. Based in Belfast, but films anywhere. opinions my own
Joined January 2013
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18 Apr 2024
Shot dead. 5 years ago today ❤️ Lyra we will keep sharing your words & voice. @christymoore45 and James thank you for this beautiful tribute #LyraMckee
youtu.be/khgfGr8_1UM?si=-j8X… photo - @jesslowephoto
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May 13
Huge surveillance corporations like Palantir can use AI to increasingly track and record every aspect of our lives.
We cannot allow a handful of tech billionaires to destroy what remains of personal privacy in America.
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Medical professionals in Gaza have an acronym WCNSFM.
It means Wounded Child No Surviving Family Members.
SPEAK UP FFS!
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May 11
Here is my BAFTA speech in full, with the important bit that hasn't been shown.
Also, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported us, and to our colleagues who rallied around us. And thank you to @BAFTA and the judges for a great evening and a great honour.
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May 11
The documentary that the BBC refused to air - Gaza: Doctors Under Attack - won a Bafta last night.
The documentary shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities. The decimation of Gaza’s healthcare system including the detention of healthcare workers is central to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Amnesty awarded Gaza: Doctors Under Attack at the Amnesty Media Awards last week. The work of everyone involved in making this documentary and fighting for it to be broadcast shows the importance of journalists willing to speak truth to power.
#Bafta #Baftas
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May 10
Absolutely brilliant. Congrats to @ramitanavai, @karimtl, @bendepear and everyone at Basement Films. BBC shamed itself with that decision.
“We refused to be silenced and censored,” she added. “We thank Channel 4 for showing this film.”
Ben De Pear, the executive producer of 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' for Basement Films, then dared the BBC to edit the remarks from the ceremony, which is shown on BBC One on a two-hour time delay. “Given you dropped the film, will you drop us from the BAFTA screening?” he asked
More details here: deadline.com/2026/05/gaza-do…
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May 10
Channel 4 News wins the BAFTA for News Coverage of the 2025 Iran-Israel War - top team, just endlessly an honour to be part of
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May 1
Just appalling
Sky's special correspondent @AlexCrawfordSky reports on the dozens of villages in southern Lebanon which have been virtually wiped out by Israel in a matter of weeks
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Apr 28
RFK Jr has cut Alzheimers research.
Alzheimers.
One of the most devastating, urgent and increasing health problems we face today.
He's not interested.
He's a nasty piece of work.
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The Editing: Factual BAFTA goes to Mel Quigley and Andy Kemp for Gaza: Doctors Under Attack.
#BAFTACraftAwards with @SamsungUK OLED
ALT Designed graphic with a dark red background and lighter peach and orange coloured particle detailing. To the left of the graphic there is gold text which reads ‘Editing: Factual Winner 2026’. The BAFTA TV Craft Awards logo with Samsung OLED lock up sits on the bottom left of the graphic and on the right-hand side there is a gold framed box with an image from ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ within the frame. Beneath the box it reads ‘Mel Quigley, Andy Kemp, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ in white and peach coloured text.
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Ryan Kernaghan takes home the Photography & Lighting: Fiction BAFTA for his work on Trespasses 🏆
#BAFTACraftAwards with @SamsungUK OLED
ALT Designed graphic with a dark red background and lighter peach and orange coloured particle detailing. To the left of the graphic there is gold text which reads ‘Photography & Lighting: Fiction Winner 2026’. The BAFTA TV Craft Awards logo with Samsung OLED lock up sits on the bottom left of the graphic and on the right-hand side there is a gold framed box with an image from ‘Trespasses’ within the frame. Beneath the box it reads ‘Trespasses’ in white text.
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Apr 26
Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia.
Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources.
nytimes.com/2026/04/25/healt…
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Apr 23
This is just the best news.
And to be clear: Ahmed should never have been arrested in the first place.
Journalism is not a crime.
Apr 23
BREAKING
Ahmed has been found innocent of all charges by a Kuwaiti court. Ahmed will be released.
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Apr 21
Endangered polar bears and cubs could be legally killed by drilling projects in Alaska under proposed new rules trib.al/S9fZ714
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Civil Defence crews were finally able to access the site where Leb journalist Amal Khalil was trapped under rubble but only hours later. They retrieved her body. Her newspaper Al Akbar has put out a video tribute. Lebanon’s Minister of Information condemned the incident describing the targeting of journalists as a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and calling for international action.
انتشال جثمان الشهيدة الصحافية آمال خليل facebook.com/share/p/1NcEyF5…
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Apr 22
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil has been confirmed killed by Israel.
Let's be clear: they targeted her, they launched a missile at her, and they prevented emergency services from reaching her.
They are doing to Lebanon's journalists what they did to Gaza's.
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Apr 18
Murdered 7 years ago today 💔 I will never forget your laugh -your inspiration - your sheer brilliance xxx #LyraMckee ❤️
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Apr 17
RT @MrMatthewTodd: The penny will drop soon. There will be mass panic and the media will be fighting to say they weren’t warned how bad it…
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Apr 16
Almost two years after it started, judgement was reserved on Thursday in a non-jury trial concerning the death of journalist Lyra McKee.
The 29-year old lost her life after being struck in the head by a bullet fired at police Land Rovers parked in the Fanad Drive area of Creggan during serious unrest on April 18, 2019.
Read more: tinyurl.com/3ddc74xe
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Email from #Newsnight viewer & farmer Mark Baker White warning about potential food shortages because of a lack of fertiliser 👇
Join us LIVE 1030pm @BBCTwo @BBCNews
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