Sam Collyns
Director
In a career that includes twenty years at the BBC and a further ten as an independent producer, Sam’s documentaries have won EMMY, BAFTA, RFK, DUPONT, GRIERSON, Royal Television Society, and AMNESTY awards and been shown across the world by broadcasters including PBS Frontline, Al Jazeera, and ARTE.
In 2019 Sam directed ‘The Day Mountbatten Died’, for BBC Two – described as “excellent, a superb documentary” by The Times, and as a “masterpiece” by The Guardian.
The year before, he directed ‘The UN Sex Abuse Scandal’ for PBS Frontline. The film won the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Journalism award for Television – International. It was...
Location Expertise:
Iraq, Ireland.
Areas of Expertise:
Terrorism; War and Conflict; The World
Languages:
English
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Stories from Sam Collyns
UN Sex Abuse Scandal
Policies
Teacher Center
Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation
Koo and Patricia Yuen
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