Suzanne Campbell-Jones, BA, M.Phil, Ph.D, FRAI, FRGS trained as an anthropologist (Ph.D from
LSE) but saw her colleagues valuable work being buried in archives and obscure
journals. So she switched careers
into making films. She spent 8 years in the BBC and more than 20 years as a
freelance producing, directing and writing award winning documentaries and
drama. She has filmed in Africa, India, Latin America,
Brazil, Japan, Indonesia, China , the Ukraine and many parts of the USA and
Europe. Her films have been shown on Channel 4, ITV, PBS in the USA, TV Asahi
Japan and other TV stations in 75 countries around the world.
Simon
Campbell-Jones, trained
as film director in industrial films. He won a Gold medal in Venice for
“Trawler Captain”, a documentary on a North Atlantic fishing. He moved to
television making science documentaries for the BBC in London and WGBH in
Boston. He made the ground-breaking “First Signs of Washoe” about
chimpanzee language and “Whales, Dolphins and Men” which alerted the world to
the issues of whaling. He was the originating producer on the NOVA series for
PBS in the USA. While Editor of
the HORIZON series for the BBC, he was responsible for around 150 programmes on
global science topics. He was Executive Producer on a 13-part series on
global history and a 5-part series on global environmental movements. He has
continued making films, and editing books, all over the world including
Cameroon, Papua New Guinea and China. Various awards include two nominations
from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.