I'm a Producer Director with experience in documentaries, current affairs and drama-doc. My main professional interests are social conscience stories with a purpose - human rights, ending violence against women, the family courts and food security have been recurring themes of my work. I'm currently developing a number of documentaries and fact-based scripted dramas. I'm based in London and would welcome any new work or collaboration enquiries.
Latest News
January 2017
30th Jan: My latest programme, Dispatches: Undercover - Britain's Cheap Clothes, was broadcast on Channel 4.
It received wide coverage in the press, including a piece I helped our courageous whistleblower write for the Huffington Post.
January 2017
30th Jan: My latest programme, Dispatches: Undercover - Britain's Cheap Clothes, was broadcast on Channel 4.
It received wide coverage in the press, including a piece I helped our courageous whistleblower write for the Huffington Post.
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24th Jan: Huge congratulations to Marcel Mettersiefen, Steve Ellis and Chris Shaw, my colleagues from Slum Britain: 50 Years On for their amazing Oscar nomination! Their brilliant, powerful film, Watani: My Homeland tells the epic story of one family's escape from war-torn Syria, and their attempt to make a new life in Germany.
December 2016
Slum Britain: 50 Years On aired on Channel 5. Directed by Marcel Mettelsiefen and featuring the extraordinary photographs by Nick Hedges, it was produced to mark the 50th anniversary of the housing charity Shelter. The film contrasts the experience of living in the slums of the 1960s with today’s housing crisis and revealed that while the material poverty may have changed over time, it's psychological toll remains.
It received some great reviews in The Times and Guardian after broadcast and was shown to the Ending Homelessness Select Committee in Parliament.
It's still available to watch here.
Slum Britain: 50 Years On aired on Channel 5. Directed by Marcel Mettelsiefen and featuring the extraordinary photographs by Nick Hedges, it was produced to mark the 50th anniversary of the housing charity Shelter. The film contrasts the experience of living in the slums of the 1960s with today’s housing crisis and revealed that while the material poverty may have changed over time, it's psychological toll remains.
It received some great reviews in The Times and Guardian after broadcast and was shown to the Ending Homelessness Select Committee in Parliament.
It's still available to watch here.
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November 2016
As part of its inquiry into adult social care, the Communities and Local Government Select Committee invited myself and the team from the home care investigation to screen our film in Parliament and talk to the Committee about the issues raised in the programme.
As part of its inquiry into adult social care, the Communities and Local Government Select Committee invited myself and the team from the home care investigation to screen our film in Parliament and talk to the Committee about the issues raised in the programme.
April 2016
My programme, Dispatches: Britain's Pensioner Care Scandal made front page news and was even mentioned during a debate in Parliament.
Sunday Times front page story: Care Workers Cover Up Neglect
Sunday Times double page spread: Unwashed, ill fed, abandoned - and they call it care
Guardian Comment piece: Two days after transmission, Christina Patterson wrote: "I cried over that film. Anyone would cry over that film. I am going to volunteer to visit an old person. Perhaps I’m just thinking of my own lonely future, but I think it’s the least I can do."
We hear a lot about compassion for the elderly. Isn't it time we showed some?
The Channel 4 News Facebook page featured two short clips from the programme, which clocked up nearly 1million views and over 15,000 shares.
Left unwashed by carers for two days
£3.89 - the cost of care?
During a Parliamentary Debate about Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in Westminster Hall, Barbara Keeley MP for Worsley and Eccles South said: "the Channel 4 Dispatches programme last week showed just how poor home care can be, with time clipped from care visits, care-workers working very long days and not being paid for travel time, care needs neglected, and no time for the care-worker to talk and listen to the person receiving care."
I also wrote a Behind the Scenes piece about making the programme for Broadcast magazine.
My programme, Dispatches: Britain's Pensioner Care Scandal made front page news and was even mentioned during a debate in Parliament.
Sunday Times front page story: Care Workers Cover Up Neglect
Sunday Times double page spread: Unwashed, ill fed, abandoned - and they call it care
Guardian Comment piece: Two days after transmission, Christina Patterson wrote: "I cried over that film. Anyone would cry over that film. I am going to volunteer to visit an old person. Perhaps I’m just thinking of my own lonely future, but I think it’s the least I can do."
We hear a lot about compassion for the elderly. Isn't it time we showed some?
The Channel 4 News Facebook page featured two short clips from the programme, which clocked up nearly 1million views and over 15,000 shares.
Left unwashed by carers for two days
£3.89 - the cost of care?
During a Parliamentary Debate about Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in Westminster Hall, Barbara Keeley MP for Worsley and Eccles South said: "the Channel 4 Dispatches programme last week showed just how poor home care can be, with time clipped from care visits, care-workers working very long days and not being paid for travel time, care needs neglected, and no time for the care-worker to talk and listen to the person receiving care."
I also wrote a Behind the Scenes piece about making the programme for Broadcast magazine.
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March 2016
My documentary How the Rich Live Longer was chosen by Realscreen magazine as one of their MIPTV top picks for 2016.
Presented by Dr Christian Jessen, the programme has already been sold in more than 50 territories.
My documentary How the Rich Live Longer was chosen by Realscreen magazine as one of their MIPTV top picks for 2016.
Presented by Dr Christian Jessen, the programme has already been sold in more than 50 territories.
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