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Callum Macrae

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He has won a large number of awards, including two Royal Television Society awards, two One World awards, an Indie award, an Amnesty award and in the US the Columbia DuPont Broadcast journalism award for his work in Japan after the tsunami and a Peabody Award for his work on Sri Lanka.
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An Emmy, BAFTA and Grierson nominee, he has been making films for 20 years in the UK and around the world, including Iraq, Sri Lanka, Japan, Haiti and several in Africa, covering wars and conflicts in Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Mali, and Sudan.
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With Alex Sutherland, he co-founded Outsider Television in 1993. For six years he was an on-screen reporter on Channel 4 Dispatches before becoming a director. Films he reported included the award-winning documentary
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The first film he directed was an observational documentary about the famous London toyshop Hamleys, which won the Howard Wincott Award for best film of the year 2000.
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for five years, was a dustman for two years, ran a pirate radio station for six months and was a teacher for seven years. He was a member of the
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is a Scottish filmmaker, writer and journalist currently with Outsider Television, which he had co-founded with Alex Sutherland in 1993.
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Apart from war documentaries, he has directed documentaries on other subjects, such as on sex workers and child wedding practice among
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He has made many films for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Al Jazeera English and PBS. His first television documentary on Sri Lanka,
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His other recent television work includes an exposé of Khartoum's war on the Nuba people of South Kordofan for Al Jazeera.
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as Scottish correspondent, where he stayed for three years winning the Campaigning Journalist of the Year award in 1992.
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His films include three major investigations into allegations of coalition crimes in Iraq.
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Macrae has written extensively for a number of journals and magazines. Articles include:
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magazine as one of the top three television directors across all genres in the UK. ].
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lost with 38 men on board amid accusations that it had been used for spying.
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In 2012, he was presented with a Scottish Bafta Special Achievement Award.
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governing Council and President of Edinburgh and District Trades Council.
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He and his team were also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012.
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The Ballymurphy Precedent (Film) Massacre at Ballymurphy (TV version)
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For two years he produced a weekly satirical cartoon strip for the
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In 1992, he moved into television, presenting and reporting on
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won the Current Affairs - International category of the
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for BBC. Filmed a massacre on the Sudan/Uganda border.
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Several of his documentaries were investigations on
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His most recent project is the feature documentary,
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Calum MacRae

Chatham House
Nigeria
Scotland
Edinburgh College of Art
Official Edinburgh Festival's
Times Educational Supplement
The Scotsman
The Herald
The Guardian
The Observer
Channel 4
Royal Television Society
One World Media Awards
BAFTA TV Award
Ballymurphy massacre
war crimes
Unreported World
Uganda
Iraq War
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields
war crimes
Sri Lankan War
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished
No Fire Zone : In the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka
The Ballymurphy Precedent (Film) Massacre at Ballymurphy (TV version)
Romani people
"Home - Colombo Mirror"
No fire zone

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