Nick Shaw is an independent

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and background artist. NickShaw 1

He is known for his direction, writing and Film editing of the independent, fair trade film, '' Bananas Unpeeled'', highlighting the plight of

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workers in Central America and the Caribbean, with an introduction by political activist and comedian,

Mark Thomas Mark Clifford Thomas (born 11 April 1963) is an English comedian, presenter, political satirist, and journalist. He first became known as a guest comic on the BBC Radio 1 comedy show ''The Mary Whitehouse Experience'' in the late 1980s. He is ...

. In 1988, he was commissioned by the

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to produce a feature documentary on the singer-songwriter,

Ted Hawkins Ted Hawkins (October 28, 1936 – January 1, 1995) was an American singer-songwriter born in Biloxi, Mississippi. He split his time between his adopted hometown of Venice Beach, California, where he was a mostly anonymous street performer, ...

. Although the documentary was never released, some of the footage appears in the 1996 film ''Ted Hawkins: Amazing Grace''. Recently he has worked on ''Dean Spanley'', '' Princess Ka'iulani'', '' Malice in Wonderland'', and ''Series III'' of ''

Kingdom Kingdom commonly refers to: * A monarchy ruled by a king or queen * Kingdom (biology), a category in biological taxonomy Kingdom may also refer to: Arts and media Television * ''Kingdom'' (British TV series), a 2007 British television drama s ...

''. In 2010 he worked on Hugo for Martin Scorsese. Filming in 3D at Shepperton Studios took over six months to complete, and will be released in December 2011. Also in 2010 he appears in the Ealing Film Studios comedy Burke and Hare, as a barman for director John Landis. He has worked for various NGO's. Both with Greenpeace during the farm trial evaluations of

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crops, and with

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, gathering testimonial evidence to complaints from the local diocese in Central America. Earlier in his life, he was a freelance stills photographer, commissioned on board various Soviet

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, including and . He later worked in New York City as a freelance stills photographer.

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