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Jamie Doran

Irish-Scottish independent documentary filmmaker

Irish-Scottish independent documentary filmmaker

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nameJamie Doran
imageJamie Doran Emmys.jpg
captionDoran at the 34th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards
birth_placeGlasgow, Scotland
occupationDocumentary maker, writer
nationalityScottish-Irish
genreCurrent affairs, conflict, human rights
subjectWarfare, human rights, sport, science fiction culture, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, Chile, Romania
2017 New York Film Festival awards<ref>{{Cite weburlhttp://www.newyorkfestivals.com/winners/2017/index.phptitle=New York Festivals - 2017 World's Best Television & Films™ Winnersaccess-date=2 August 2017archive-date=2 August 2017archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802205556/http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/winners/2017/index.phpurl-status=dead }}
EMMY Awards<ref>emmyonline.com/news_37th_winners</ref><ref name"Archived copy"
Peabody Award<ref>{{cite weburlhttp://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/isis-in-afghanistantitle=ISIS in Afghanistandate=2015website=Peabody Awards}}
duPont Colombia Awards <ref>{{cite weburlhttp://www.dupontawards.org/#winners_boxtitle=Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalismwebsite=Dupontawards.org}}
spouseTracey Doran-Carter
website

2017 New York Film Festival awards

EMMY Awards

Peabody Award

duPont Colombia Awards

Amnesty International UK Media Award

Jamie Doran is an Irish-Scottish independent documentary filmmaker and former BBC producer. He founded the award-winning company Clover Films, based in Windsor, in 2008. Doran's films have been shown worldwide, and on series such as BBC's Panorama, Channel 4's Dispatches, Channel 4's True Stories, PBS's Frontline, Al Jazeera, ABC's Four Corners, Japan's NHK, Germany's ZDF NDR/ARD and Denmark's DR.

Many of Doran's documentaries cover the lives of people caught up war zones around the world. His 2017 film The Boy Who Started the Syrian War, which has received over 100 million views globally, centers on the story of how anti-Assad graffiti created by schoolboys had reportedly started the Syrian civil war. In 2016, his film ISIS in Afghanistan won two Emmy awards in the outstanding continuing coverage of a news story in a news magazine, and the best report in a news magazine categories, as well as a Peabody award and three awards at the New York Film Festival.

In 2014, his film Pakistan's Hidden Shame exposed the sexual abuse of street boys in Peshawar. The film won the grand jury award for best documentary at the United Nations Association Film Festival and received high commendation from the Association for International Broadcasting. His 2012 film Opium Brides focused on the collateral damage of the counter-narcotic effort in Afghanistan. It won an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism, and the duPont–Columbia award. In 2010, his film The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan revealed the widespread and systematic child sex abuse by former Northern Alliance commanders.

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Awards

Worldfest Gold Special Jury Award

**3x 2017 New York Film Festival awards **for "ISIL and the Taliban" (ISIS in Afghanistan)

4 x EMMY Awards: Best Report in a News Magazine and Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine for "ISIS in Afghanistan," (2016) for "Opium Brides" in the 2013 Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine category and for "Battle for Syria" in the Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine category

Peabody Award for "ISIS in Afghanistan"

**Overseas Press Club of America Award **for "Opium Brides" (2012)

2 x duPont Colombia Award for "Opium Brides," (2013) and "Behind Enemy Lines" (2011)

"Pakistan's Hidden Shame" and "Opium Brides" selected for the **United Nations Association Film Festival **(2012)

Worldfest Platinum Remi for "Pakistan's Open Secret" (2012)

Amnesty International UK Media Award for "The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan" (2011)

Filmography

Doran has directed and produced numerous documentaries, including:

YearTitlePlot
2021The Fans Who Make Football: Celtic FCThis documentary explores what it means to be a fan of Celtic football club.
2019**
2018Crimea: Russia's Dark SecretThe documentary reveals the occupation of Crimea by Russia, and Russia's systematic and blatant violations of human rights on the territory of the peninsula.
2017ISIL Target RussiaThis film journeys deep into the impregnable mountains of northern Afghanistan, where thousands of ISIL fighters are training and plotting an attack on Russia.
2017The Boy Who Started the Syrian WarAn intimate look at the war in Syria through the eyes of Mouawiyah Syasneh, the boy whose anti-Assad graffiti lit the spark that engulfed Syria.
2016ISIS and the Taliban: The JourneyDoran journeys to Afghanistan to join Zubair Massoud, adviser to the national security council.
They travel through some of the most dangerous territory in the world, to discover just how bad the situation really is after the withdrawal
of most NATO forces two years previously.
2015The Taliban HuntersThis film follows the 'Taliban Hunters,' Karachi's elite police unit who are fighting back against Taliban militants in an attempt to regain control of the dangerous city.
2015Kenya's Enemy WithinAn investigation into whether the wall promised by Kenya on the border of Somalia, in response to al-Shabab attacks, is already too late.
2015ISIS in AfghanistanA special report that reveals how ISIS is on the rise in Afghanistan, and how they are targeting and training children to join Jihad in the war-torn country.
2015Living Beneath the DronesA film that investigates the devastating impact that war and living under the constant threat of drones has on the mental health of the people of Afghanistan.
2014Syria's Second FrontA film which looks at the complexities of Syria's civil war.
It is no longer the regime fighting president al-Assad, but they are also facing ISIS, who are quickly gaining ground and imposing their own barbaric rule.
2014On the Front Lines with the TalibanWith unprecedented access, this film follows Taliban fighters, as they launch an attack against the Afghan National Army from the Taliban stronghold in
Charkh district, just an hour outside the Afghan capital, Kabul.
2014Arming the RebelsThis film offers a rare glimpse into a covert programme by US intelligence forces who have been training and arming select groups of
Syrian rebels out of a previously reported location, in Qatar.
2014The Girls of the TalibanA film which explores the new wave of privately run madrasahs that are opening across Afghanistan.
As well as meeting the girls who study there, their families and the men behind the schools, the feeling among women's rights groupsis also captured - they fear their already limited freedoms are again under threat.
2014Pakistan's Hidden ShameA film directed by Mohammed Naqvi focusing on a culture in Peshawar of sexual abuse of street children.
It was screened at Sheffield Doc/Fest in June 2014.
2012The Battle for SyriaDoran and Guardian correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad travel to the frontline where rebel fighters face the forces of Bashar al-Assad's regime,
witnessing the deadliest period of the fighting so far.
2012Opium BridesNajibullah Quraishi journeys deep into the Afghan countryside to reveal how ISAF poppy eradication programmes
are forcing Afghan peasant farmers into debt with drug mafias.
When they cannot pay, the traffickers take their daughters.
2012In the Hands of Al QaedaGhaith Abdul Ahad investigates how Al Qaeda was able to capture Yemeni towns and cities
from right under the noses of the United Statesand the Sana'a administration.
2011Pakistan's Open SecretAn observational documentary following a flamboyant 'family' of transgender people as they hustle and scrape together a living on the streets of Karachi.
2011The PromotersAn investigation into extra judicial killings in Kenya, where human rights workers accuse police of killing more than 8,500 young men in the last ten years alone.
2011Sudan: The Break UpMade for Al-Jazeera, this three part series charts the troubled history of Sudan from pre-colonial times to the present day.
2010The Dancing Boys of Afghanistandate=20 April 2010title=The Dancing Boys Of Afghanistan: A deceptively titled depiction of disturbing realityurl=http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/822591-the-dancing-boys-of-afghanistan-a-deceptively-titled-depiction-of-disturbing-realitywork=Metro}} film shows how former Northern Alliance warlords and powerful businessmen are preying on
impoverished young boys in Afghanistan. The ancient tradition of Bachi Bazi (translation: boy-play) was banned under the Taliban,
but has resurfaced since they were routed by ISAF in late 2001.
Boys as young as 11 are bought and sold like slaves, dressed up like women and made to dance before audiences of men.
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan exposes how these boys are systematically sexually abused, and frequently murdered by jealous rival owners.
Despite these practices being illegal under Afghan law, the film shows that the men committing the abuse do so with impunity.
This film premiered at the Royal Society of Arts on 29 March 2010.
It was aired on PBS Frontline in the United States, and True Stories in the UK on 20 April 2010.
2010Afghanistan: Behind Enemy LinesBroadcast in February, 2010, as an episode of Dispatches on the British television network, Channel 4,
this film shows how fighters from the proscribed extremist Islamic group, Hezb-e-Islami,
are opening a new battlefront in Northern Afghanistan.
Filmed by the Rory Peck Award winning British-Afghan journalist, Najibullah Quraishi, who spent 2 weeks with these fighters,
Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines includes footage of the fighters constructing planting and detonating roadside bombs (or IEDs).
Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor of the Guardian newspaper, described the film as
"An extraordinary and intimate documentary depicting the lives of fighters within the Taliban's insurgency in Afghanistan".
This film was broadcast on PBS Frontline as Behind Taliban Lines in February 2010.
This film was nominated for a British Film and Television Academy Award in the Best Current Affairs programme category.
In June 2010 it won the One World Media Award for best TV documentary.
2009Africa RisingThis film documents the failure of Western development policy in Africa, and shows how a community of impoverished Ethiopian farmers are working themselves
out of poverty through collectivization and micro-finance initiatives.
It won the 2010 One World Media MDGs Award, being described by judges as "superbly shot and uplifting... a compelling piece of work that drew the viewer into
the heart of a community as it struggled to shake off a dependency culture".
2007Whiskey in the JarDocumenting life on the remote Irish island of Tory, the only place in Ireland with an appointed sovereign.
2004Jimmy Johnstone: Lord of the WingA film on Jimmy 'Jinky' Johnstone, a Celtic and Scotland football hero of the 1960s and 70s who struggled with motor neurone disease.
2004Guinea Pig KidsShown on BBC2, this programme exposed how anti-HIV drugs were tested on "vulnerable and poor children at a
New York care home ... who had no choice in whether or not to take part in trials and no proper advocates to speak on their behalf".
Describing HIV medicines given to the children as "futile" and "dangerous", the programme also demonstrated how children
had been taken from their families to enable the "experimental" drug treatment to continue.
Despite critics' charges that the programme was "lurid, untrue" and contained "dangerous lies" a BBC investigation did not uphold these complaints.
2003The Need for SpeedFollows the investigation of two U.S. pilots in relation to a friendly-fire incident in the war in Afghanistan in which four Canadian soldiers died.
The pilots' defence stated that they were flying under the influence of amphetamines given to them by the U.S. Air Force.
Interviewees include former Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Merrill McPeak.
The pilots' amphetamine usage was also covered by the BBC and the New York Times.
2002Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Deathlast=Connollyfirst=Kateauthor2=McCarthy, Rorydate=2002-06-13title=New film accuses US of war crimesurl=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jun/13/afghanistan.warcrimesaccess-date=2009-08-01work=The Guardianlocation=London}} Afghans interviewed in the film claim that U.S. personnel were present and involved in mass killings.
2001The Android ProphecyDocumentary history of robots in the cinema that draws dark conclusions about the future of mankind,
featuring contributions from Arthur C. Clarke, Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott.
2001City of Murder and MayhemLife in post-Soviet era Moscow: the film documents a month in the life of one of Russia's new breed of oligarch bankers, and shadows an elite police unit
tasked with tackling organised crime.
1998StarmanA sixty-minute biographical film for BBC Television of Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.
Doran also co-wrote a book on Gagarin with the popular-science writer, Piers Bizony.
1997Sexpionagetitle=Sexpionageurl=http://tv.nytimes.com/show/60922/Sexpionage/overviewaccess-date=2009-08-02newspaper=New York Times}}
1994The Red BombA three-part series on the Soviet Union's first nuclear bomb, built in 1949, years before the West thought the Soviet Union
had the capability to build such a bomb. Features interviews with former Soviet spies and scientists.

Articles and interviews

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