Tom Giles is editor of Panorama, the BBC's flagship current affairs series. He began his BBC career in 1991 as an assistant producer for World Service Radio. He has since worked on the Nine O'clock News, Newsnight, Panorama, Horizon and, for Current Affairs, on series such as Hooligans and the BBC Two's White Season and BBC's factual drama development. In 2008, he was awarded a BAFTA as producer of Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain. Tome Giles served as an executive producer for BBC Current Affairs and was responsible for some of Panorama's high-profile undercover investigations such as Hate On The Doorstep, which exposed racist abuse on a housing estate in Bristol. His “In The Line Of Fire”, about the friendly-fire incident in the Iraq War involving his team and the BBC's World Affairs Editor, John Simpson, won the RTS International Current Affairs award in 2004. Since becoming Panorama editor in March 2010, he has overseen BAFTA and RTS-winning investigations into Undercover Care Homes, Children in Care, FIFA’s Dirty Secrets, and Cash for Questions in Westminster.
| 15:30 - 17:00 | SUN Room : The Anatomy of TV investigationsIn this session, three world-acclaimed and award-winning television journalists and editors show their own clips and share tips on how to turn what is essentially a great print investigation into compelling television. They will also explain some of the challenges, detail their paper trail and share tips on surveillance, and how to get insiders to talk and track down key characters. ModeratorsSpeakers
Abdullah El Binni / LebanonIs currently working with Aljazeera Media Network since 2004 as Executive Producer/Investigative Filmmaker. In February 2011, he was shortlisted as Best Filmmaker 2010 from Digital Studio Awards. Abdallah is Lebanese, born in Sidon 1971, started his journalism carrier in 1987 as a War Zone Photographer with Agence France Press (AFP) and than with Reuters, covering the Lebanese Civil War and the Israeli Invasions in South Lebanon. In 1992, he was among the first group of people when Future Television was launched in Lebanon, he worked as DoP, producer, and director. He covered two Israeli Wars against Lebanon 1993, 1996. Winner of The Golden Award at Cairo TV festival 1997 for his short film “Don’t Forget Qana”, about the massacre of 100 civilians killed inside a UN base in Qana village by Israel during its Operation "Grapes of Wrath" in 1996. In 1997 he joined Abu Dhabi TV, worked as producer/director/ DoP/Non-Linear editor. Abdallah Covered both Afghanistan & Iraq Wars and tens of global events & crisis in more than 40 countries. Producer/Director for live talk shows & for a special investigative documentary “ Burial Forbidden” about the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia. In 2004 he signed a contract with Aljazeera Satellite Channel. With Aljazeera, he covered the Israeli War against Lebanon July /August 2006. He filmed, produced &directed more than 20 films, broadcasted on Aljazeera English Channel.
Marc Perkins / UKMarc Perkins started his career in Radio, before learning to film and edit. For ten years he worked as a freelance shoot-producer, specializing in hostile environments. He covered the conflict in Congo, Angola, Burundi, Sri Lanka, Iraq and Afghanistan. He has worked as a documentary series producer for the BBC, Channel 4 and Al Jazeera. Over the last two years Marc has worked as Documentaries Editor for BBC Arabic, following the uprisings across the Arab World.
Tom Giles / UKTom Giles is editor of Panorama, the BBC's flagship current affairs series. He began his BBC career in 1991 as an assistant producer for World Service Radio. He has since worked on the Nine O'clock News, Newsnight, Panorama, Horizon and, for Current Affairs, on series such as Hooligans and the BBC Two's White Season and BBC's factual drama development. In 2008, he was awarded a BAFTA as producer of Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain. Tome Giles served as an executive producer for BBC Current Affairs and was responsible for some of Panorama's high-profile undercover investigations such as Hate On The Doorstep, which exposed racist abuse on a housing estate in Bristol. His “In The Line Of Fire”, about the friendly-fire incident in the Iraq War involving his team and the BBC's World Affairs Editor, John Simpson, won the RTS International Current Affairs award in 2004. Since becoming Panorama editor in March 2010, he has overseen BAFTA and RTS-winning investigations into Undercover Care Homes, Children in Care, FIFA’s Dirty Secrets, and Cash for Questions in Westminster. |
