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Jamie Doran is an Irish-Scottish independent
documentary filmmaker
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and former BBC producer.
[Hali, S. M. (2006-03-28)]
"Afghan Blues!"
''The Nation
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'' He founded the multi award-winning company Clover Films, based in
Windsor
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, in 2008.
[ He is also the Club President of Datchet Village FC, which he founded in 1986.
Doran’s films are shown worldwide and on flagship series such as BBC '' Panorama'', Channel 4 ''Dispatches'', Channel 4 True Stories, PBS ''Frontline'', Al Jazeera, ABC Four Corners, Japan's NHK, Germany's ]ZDF
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and NDR/ARD and Denmark's DR to name a few.
Doran’s documentaries are known for shedding light on taboo subjects. The 2017 film, 'The Boy Who Started the Syrian War' exposes viewers to the true origins of the Syrian War; a childish prank of anti-Assad graffiti sprayed on a school wall by a group of young boys. Globally the film has had over 100 million views.[ In 2016, '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, a Peabody, and three awards at the ]New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival (NYFF) is a film festival held every fall in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center (FLC). Founded in 1963 by Richard Roud and Amos Vogel with the support of Lincoln Center president William Schuman, i ...
.
In 2014, ‘Pakistan’s Hidden Shame’ exposed the sexual abuse of streets boys in Peshawar. The film won the Grand Jury Award for ‘Best Documentary’ at the United Nations Association Film Festival. It also received high commendation at the AIB (Association for International Broadcasting The Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental trade association that represents international television and radio broadcasters and online broadcasters, founded in 1993. It is governed by an Executive Com ...
). The 2012 film 'Opium Brides' exposed the hidden, and unexpected collateral damage of the counter-narcotic effort in Afghanistan. It won an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism, and the duPont–Columbia award.
In 2010 the film ''The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
''The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan'' is a 2010 documentary film produced by Clover Films and directed by Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi about the practice of ''bacha bazi'' in Afghanistan. The 52-minute documentary premiered in the UK at t ...
'' exposed the widespread and systematic child sex abuse by former Northern Alliance commanders, ISAF's closest allies in Afghanistan.
In 2017 the law was changed in Afghanistan and Bach Baazi is now included in the revised penal code.
Filmography
Doran has directed and produced numerous documentaries, including:
''Crimea: Russia's Dark Secret'' (2018)
The documentary reveals the occupation of the Crimea by Russia and its systematic and blatant violations of the human rights on the territory of the peninsula.
''ISIL Target Russia'' (2017)
A film that journeys deep into the impregnable mountains of northern Afghanistan, where thousands of ISIL fighters are training and plotting an attack on Russia.
''The Boy Who Started the Syrian War'' (2017)
An intimate look at the war in Syria through the eyes of Mouawiyah Syasneh, the boys whose anti Assad graffiti lit the spark that engulfed Syria.[
]
''ISIS and the Taliban: The Journey'' (2016)
Doran journeys to Afghanistan to join Zubair Massoud, adviser to the National Security Council. Together 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.
''The Taliban Hunters'' (2015)
This film follows the 'Taliban Hunters,' Karachi's elite police unit who are fighting back against Taliban militants in attempt to regain control of the dangerous city.
''Kenya's Enemy Within'' (2015)
An investigation into whether the wall promised by Kenya on the border of Somalia, in response to al-Shabab attacks, is already too late.
''ISIS in Afghanistan'' (2015)
A 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.[
]
''Living Beneath the Drones'' (2015)
A 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.
''Syria's Second Front'' (2014)
A 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.
''On the Front Lines with the Taliban'' (2014)
With unprecedented access, this film follows Taliban fighters, as they launch an attack against the Afghan National Army from the Taliban stronghold on Charkh district, just an hour outside the Afghan capital, Kabul.
''Arming the Rebels'' (2014)
This 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.
''The Girls of the Taliban'' (2014)
A film which explores the new way 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 groups is also captured - they fear their already limited freedoms are again under threat.
''Pakistan's Hidden Shame'' (2014)
A film directed by Mohammed Naqvi focusing on a culture in Peshawar of sexual abuse of street children. It was screened at Sheffield Doc/Fest
Sheffield DocFest (formerly styled Sheffield Doc/Fest), short for Sheffield International Documentary Festival (SIDF), is an international documentary festival and Marketplace held annually in Sheffield, England.
The Festival includes film sc ...
in June 2014.
''The Battle for Syria'' (2012)
Doran 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.
''Opium Brides'' (2012)
Najibullah 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.
''In the Hands of Al Qaeda'' (2012)
Ghaith Abdul Ahad investigates how Al Qaeda was able to capture Yemeni towns and cities from right under the noses of the United States and the Sana’a administration.
''Pakistan's Open Secret'' (2011)
An observational documentary following a flamboyant 'family' of transgender people as they hustle and scrape together a living on the streets of Karachi
Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former c ...
.
''The Promoters'' (2011)
An investigation into Extra Judicial Killings in Kenya, where Human Rights workers accuse police of killing more than 8500 young men in the last ten years alone.
''Sudan: The Break Up'' (2011)
Made for Al-Jazeera, this three part series charts the troubled history of Sudan from pre-colonial times to the present day.
''The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan'' (2010)
This highly controversial and widely acclaimed film shows how former Northern Alliance
The Northern Alliance, officially known as the United Islamic National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan ( prs, جبهه متحد اسلامی ملی برای نجات افغانستان ''Jabha-yi Muttahid-i Islāmi-yi Millī barāyi Nijāt ...
warlord
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s 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
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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
''Frontline'' (stylized as FRONTLINE) is an investigative documentary program distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. Episodes are produced at WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts. The series has covered a variety ...
in the United States, and True Stories in the UK on 20 April 2010.
''Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines'' (2010)
Broadcast in February, 2010, as an episode of Dispatches on the British television network, Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service ...
, 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
The Rory Peck Award is an award given to freelance camera operators who have risked their lives to report on newsworthy events.[Najibullah Quraishi
Najibullah Quraishi is an Afghan journalist and filmmaker.
Quraishi worked as a journalist and presenter on radio and television in Afghanistan for ten years and has a degree in journalism. Quraishi is Clover Films chief investigator for projects ...](_blank)
, 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.
''Africa Rising'' (2009)
This 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".
''Whiskey in the Jar'' (2007)
Documenting life on the remote Irish island of Tory; the only place in Ireland with an appointed sovereign.
''Jimmy Johnstone: Lord of the Wing'' (2004)
A film on Jimmy 'Jinky' Johnstone, a Celtic and Scotland
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football hero of the 1960s and 70s who struggled with motor neurone disease
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.[
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''Guinea Pig Kids'' (2004)
Shown 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".['Serious concern' at BBC over flawed HIV film]
published in ''The Guardian
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''. Accessed October 31, 2007. 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.
''The Need for Speed'' (2003)
Follows the investigation of two U.S. pilots in relation to a friendly-fire incident in the War in Afghanistan
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*Conquest of Afghanistan by Alexander the Great (330 BC – 327 BC)
* Muslim conquests of Afghanistan (637–709)
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in which four Canadian soldiers died. The pilots' defence stated that they were flying under the influence of amphetamines
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given to them by the U.S. Air Force
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. Interviewees include former Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Merrill McPeak
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In 1993, McPeak served a ...
. The pilots' amphetamine usage was also covered by the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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New York Times
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''.
''Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death'' (2002)
Interviewees presented as eyewitnesses state that several thousand Taliban prisoners of war were transported to Sheberghan prison in sealed containers and that hundreds or thousands of prisoners died.
Afghans interviewed in the film claim that U.S. personnel were present and involved in mass killings.
A short preliminary version of the documentary was shown to the
European Parliament
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and the
German Parliament
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in June 2002, under the title ''Massacre at Mazar'', prompting calls for investigations from human rights bodies.
The Pentagon
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denied allegations of U.S. involvement and released a statement, saying "U.S. Central Command looked into it a few months ago, when allegations first surfaced when there were graves discovered in the area of Sherberghan prison. They looked into it and did not substantiate any knowledge, presence or participation of US service members."
An August 2002 report in ''Newsweek'', based on a UN memo, described a mass grave site in the
Dasht-i-Leili desert, but said there was no evidence that U.S. personnel had been involved.
The story resurfaced in July 2009, when U.S. President
Barack Obama
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asked his national security team to look into allegations that the Bush administration had resisted calls to have the matter investigated.
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''The Android Prophecy'' (2001)
Documentary history of
robot
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s in the cinema that draws dark conclusions about the future of mankind. Featuring contributions from
Arthur C. Clarke,
Steven Spielberg and
Ridley Scott.
''City of Murder and Mayhem'' (2001)
Life 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.
''Starman'' (1998)
A sixty-minute biographical film for
BBC Television of
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's first name is sometimes transliterated as ''Yuriy'', ''Youri'', or ''Yury''. (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. T ...
, the first human in space. Doran also co-wrote a book on Gagarin with the popular-science writer,
Piers Bizony.
''Sexpionage'' (1997)
The story of the young women who were forced by the
KGB
The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...
to seduce foreign military personnel, businessmen and diplomats in order to elicit secrets from them. Includes first-hand testimony from former KGB agents, some of the women involved, as well as American intelligence analysts.
''The Red Bomb'' (1994)
A three-part series on the Soviet Union's first nuclear bomb, built in 1949, years before the West thought the
Soviet Union
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had the capability to build such a bomb. Features interviews with former Soviet spies and scientists.
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Articles and interviews
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Amy Goodman
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(2014-09-30)
Interview with 'Afghan Massacre' director Jamie Doran about Afghanistan’s new vice president, notorious warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum Democracy Now!
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Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Maria Heideh AmanpourStated on '' Finding Your Roots'', 22 January 2019 (; fa, کریستیان امانپور, Kristiane Amānpur; born 12 January 1958) is a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chie ...
(2014-09-01)
Interview with Jamie Doran about the sexual abuse of boys in Pakistan CNN International
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* Shihab-Eldin, Ahmed (2014-05-28)
'Syria: Arming The Rebels' producer Jamie Doran tells #WorldBrief about the covert U.S. training and arming program of Syrian rebels HuffPost Live
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* Steinberg, Stefan (2002-06-17)
Interview with Jamie Doran, director of Massacre at Mazar ''
World Socialist Web Site
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''
"Did U.S. Forces Allow a Massacre of 3,000 Taliban Prisoners to Occur?" BuzzFlash asks Jamie Doran, Producer-Director of "Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death" BuzzFlash Interview, 2003-09-23
* Doran, Jamie (2002-09-02)
AFGHANISTAN’S SECRET GRAVES: A drive to death in the desert ''
Le Monde Diplomatique''
References
External links
Jamie Doran's company profileat clover-films.com
Jamie Doran's biographyon usindependents.com
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Scottish documentary filmmakers
Scottish film directors
Film people from Glasgow
Scottish people of Irish descent
News & Documentary Emmy Award winners
Peabody Award winners
Scottish television producers
Journalists from Glasgow