JONATHAN ELLIOTTCURRICULUM VITAE

Specialist factual TV producer with substantial long form network BBC track record - 27 x

30’ and 12 x 60’ PD credits. Expert writer and award-winning journalist.

International specialist : produced and reported from 32 countries in Asia, Africa and

Latin America. Experienced on-screen reporter / presenter, 20+ years' experience.

Experienced film director, solid technical training, creative flair and originality. Recent

high quality drama reconstruction directing experience. SP and management experience.

BBC current affairs and investigations background. Journalism training with the FT.

Telephone : +44 (0) 7775 784 734Email : elliottmedia.net@gmail.comWebsite and reel : www.elliottmedia.net

EMPLOYMENT (in reverse order)

Oct 2015 Producer, director, writer at World Media Rights. 2 x 60' Evolution of Evil for ZDF. Biographical films of Mao Tse Tung and Hideki Tojo.

July 2014 Producer, director, writer at World Media Rights. 2 x 60' Ancient Black Ops for UKTV Yesterday Channel. Unconventional tactics in Samurai warfare. Substantial, complex dramatic reconstruction shooting, featuring authentic period combat.

July 2013 Producer, director, writer at World Media Rights. 2 x 60' CIA Declassified for Discovery US. Analysis of US counterterrorism in Yemen and Somalia. Substantial, complex dramatic reconstruction shooting, in depth research.

October 2012 Producer, director, writer at World Media Rights. 1 x 60' Black Ops : Night of Terror for Discovery US on the 2002 Moscow Theatre Siege. Substantial complex drama reconstruction shooting, featuring first hand accounts from Russian special forces and siege survivors.

October 2011 Producer, director, writer at World Media Rights. 3 x 60’ archive-based documentaries in the series Narrow Escapes of World War 2 for the History Channel. Substantial complex drama reconstruction shooting.

2009 - 2010 Producer, Director, Writer at Off The Fence. Developed 5 x 60’ history series Asia’s Monarchies for National Geographic Channel. Produced, wrote and directed 2 x 60' episodes, shooting in Bhutan and Nepal.

Dec 2008 Producer/Director Channel 4 Current Affairs series The Insider, at Mentorn Television. 4 x 30' authored current affairs documentaries.

Sept 2006 Launch producer, People and Power, Aljazeera English. Investigations filmed in Azerbaijan, Jordan, Iraq, India.

July 2005 Series producer and reporter CNBC The Business of Development. Series produced 14 x 30' programmes on business and international development. Reported from nine developing countries.

June 2004 Senior factual development producer, Leopard Films.

Dec 2003 Investigations producer/director, BBC Inside Out. Shooting director.

Dec 2002 Senior producer/director, BBC Frontline Scotland. 6 x 30' UK national investigative current affairs documentaries.

May 2001 Features reporter, consumer and personal finance channel Simply Money.

Dec 1999 Producer/director, BBC investigative documentary A Death at Porton Down. Nominated for Royal Television Society Award.

June 1999 Producer/director, BBC Frontline Scotland. UK national investigative current affairs documentaries. 5 x 30' UK national investigative current affairs documentaries.

Aug 1998 Reporter, Reuters World Alert at World Television. Produced films on the environment in Japan and Colombia.

Dec 1997 Editor and reporter, science features magazine Future File, at European Business News.

Apr 1997 Producer, international affairs magazine Roving Report at Worldwide Television News.

Apr 1996 Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC Breakfast News.

Aug 1995 Producer for BBC TV Events specials VE Day and VJ50. Films in Poland, Russia and Germany.

Nov 1994 Producer/director for BBC TV careers magazine Next.

July 1994 Director, Central Television documentary Scotland Yard.

May 1994 Producer, factual programmes development for BBC Youth and Entertainment Features.

Dec 1993 Associate Producer, Dispatches : Treasury on Trial.

July 1993 Associate Producer, BBC TV current affairs series All Black.

Nov 1992 Winner of four month Commonwealth/ITC research bursary to West Africa. Reported for BBC World Service Radio Focus on Africa and BBC World.

May 1992 Associate Producer, Roger Bolton Productions, BBC Heart of the Matter.

Winner, BMA Medicine in the Media Award.

Sept 1991 Researcher, LWT, current affairs series Special Inquiry.

Sept 1990 Researcher, LWT, international documentary series Faith in the Future.

Jan 1990 Assistant producer, International Broadcasting Trust, BBC 2 series The Global Environment.

EDUCATION and QUALIFICATIONS

1983 – 1986 Bristol University

1986 B.A. Hons, Classics (2.1)

1994 Westminster Press/NCTJ Diploma in Journalism