The Producers

Allie Wharf – Director & Producer

Allie Wharf has over 20 years’ experience as a foreign documentary and current affairs filmmaker and journalist. After joining BBC Newsnight in the late nineties, her first experience of covering conflict was in Northern Ireland. Following the tragic events of 9/11 she was soon catapulted into the invasion of Afghanistan. Whilst still at the BBC she and her Newsnight team smuggled themselves into Northern Iraq in January 2003 so they could cover the Iraq invasion on the ground from the North. Allie left her staff job at the BBC in 2007 but continued to make films for broadcasters on a freelance basis. In the following years she’s made films around the world including India, Ghana, Senegal, Vietnam, Niger – seeking out under-represented voices and making them heard.

Fiona Lloyd-Davies – Executive Producer

Award winning filmmaker & photojournalist, Fiona Lloyd-Davies is one of the UK's most experienced foreign documentary and current affairs journalists. She has been making films and taking pictures about human rights issues in areas of conflict since 1992, including in Bosnia, Iraq, Pakistan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her film about Honour Killing in Pakistan License to Kill for the BBC2 Correspondent strand helped bring about a change in the law in Pakistan and was awarded a Royal Television Society award for Best International Journalism. Fiona found her way into this genre through an ad hoc trip to Bosnia in the first few months of the war in 1992. It landed her a job on Clive Gordon's BAFTA award winning feature documentary: The Unforgiving.