Tamara Gordon

Film Producer | Director

Tamara Gordon has 18 years of professional self-shooting experience from around the world. She has worked as a Director and Producer for the BBC, Channel 4, the United Nations, South African Broadcasting Association amongst others.

Her films have won many internationally renowned awards. Her expertise in self shooting came from her initial training with an MA in Visual Anthropology in 1989. Her films achieve a rare intimacy from contributors whilst focusing on highly sensitive issues around human rights and identity.  She has become used to working abroad in often volatile enviroments, adapting on the job.  Nearly all her films have been of her own volition and then secured commission.

Awards Summary

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1994

Commission For Racial Equality Award Award

Amnesty International Human Rights Award

Video Diaries. Sad, Mad or Bad. Sunshine 13

BBC Community Programmes Unit

1997

Monte Carlo Special Judges Award

Monte Carlo Golden Nymph Award

Royal Television Award

Amnesty International Human Rights Media Award

Getting Away With Murder

BBC Correspondent

2000

BAFTA

Cry of Freetown: Documentary Award

Channel 4

2003

Screen Nation Television Awards

Second Chance: Documentary Award

Channel 4

2003

Grierson Documentary Award

Belonging: Shortlisted Best Cinema Documentary

Carlton TV

2006

Misty Television Award

Borderline: Documentary Award

Independent

The National Film School {UK}

BBC Training

The Media Peace Centre (South Africa)

Filmography

2016 – In Development

The British Truth and Reconciliation Commission 

Role: Producer |Director

The British Truth and Reconciliation Commission

2006

Borderline

Channel: Independent Distribution

Role: Producer|Director

A call for independent thinking in an increasingly polarised world, told through the tale of a small Welsh border town.

2004

Film: Belonging

Channel: ITV

Role: Producer | Director

A personal and political look at how Cambodia is, and isn’t, reconciling with its past and trying to move on from Year Zero.

2003

Cry of Freetown

Channel: Channel 4

Sorios Samuras shocking portrayal of the fall of Freetown in Sierra Leone. The film led to British Troops going in as a peacekeeping mission.

2001

Good Morning Albania

Channel: BBC

Role: Producer | Director

An insider’s perspective on the workings of Nato during the Kosovan conflict.

2001

Balkan Video Nation

Channel: BBC

Role: Producer | Director

Personal video diaries from the grassroots from all sides during the Kosovan conflict.

1999/2000

BBC Correspondent
Channel

Role: Producer | Director

Six films as part of the award winning series shot in Bolivia, Norway, South Africa x2, Jordan, and Indonesia.

1999

Getting Way with Murder

Channel: BBC

Role: Producer | Director

The first major international film on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The film went on to win multiple awards, and was requested for a special screening for the US President before he went to South Africa.

1998

Search For Common Ground: Video Dialogues

Channel: South African Broadcasting Commission

Role: Producer | Director

A film covering the groundbreaking process of conflict mediating with video cameras. The township, outside Johannesburg had experience the worst black on black violence of South Africa post independence.

1997

The Commander and the Kid

Channel: SABC

Role: Producer | Director

A film covering the creation and conflicts of Johannesburg’s most notoriously violent gangs in the power vacuum created in the post Apartheid “peace”.

1996

The World Through Kids Eyes

Channel: UNICEF

Role: Producer | Director

3 films based around the UN Rights for the Child, filmed in India, Philippines and South Africa.

1996

Video Diaries. Sad, Mad or Bad. Sunshine 13

Channel: BBC

Role: Producer | Director

3  BBC Video Diaries.
One a personal testimony from within the mental health system in the UK.
The second a story of repatriation to the West Indies from the UK.
The third how British Asians are manipulating traditions in multicultural Britain to cross the divide.

1996

Women at the Peace Table

Channel: UNIFEM

Role: Producer | Director

3 controversial BBC Video Diaries.
Women’s role in peace building

The Hague Appeal For Peace (UNIFEM)

Presentation on the role of the media in conflict resolution.

The Mendola Centre for Peace (Zambia)

Responsible Journalism in covering conflicts.

University of Natal (South Africa) –

Presentation on the Democratisation of the Media in the New South Africa.

Education

1990

MA Film and Anthropology

Manchester University
1989

BA Hons 2:1 Politics, Philosophy and Anthropology

Manchester University

Contact

Phone
+44 7787 827769
Email
tamaragordon@hotmail.com

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