MAX BARING 

AWARDS:

Citation - Overseas Press Club - Robert Spiers Benjamin Award for best reporting in any medium on Latin America

Winner - Society of Environmental Journalists Best Explanatory Reporting (Small Newsroom)

Winner - Colorado Environmental Film Festival Spirit of Activism Award.

Winner of the Arrigoni-Mer Khamis special mention at the Naples Human Rights Film Festival.

Winner - Arctic Film Festival

Winner - The Japan Prize

Winner - One World Media Awards (series)

"Pick of the Week": Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Radio Times

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With a background in Social Anthropology I specialise in films with a social, cultural and environmental themes.

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I shoot, direct and produce television documentaries for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel Five and PBS and Discovery. I also make short form web content, corporate, NGO, and charity films.

 

I've worked all over the world from Afghanistan to Mongolia and from Syria to Suriname. I specialise in South American stories.

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REVIEWS FOR PREVIOUS BROADCAST DOCUMENTARIES

 

SYRIAN SCHOOL – BBC

 

"Syrian School is great, incidentally, shot through with little flashes of illumination about how political attitudes are formed and hardened, but also reminding you that, beneath the real differences between British and Syrian society, there lies a great, submerged iceberg of human sameness".

 - Tom Sutcliffe, Independent.

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"Excellent contemporary history"

- Phil Harrison: Time Out.

 

"This excellent documentary series on schools around the world gives a real insight into the way people live, away from the distorting-lens of agenda-driven news." 

-Will Hodgkinson: Guardian, Pick of the Day

 

 

GUARDING THE QUEEN - ITV

 

“Hardly anyone put a foot wrong in this superb documentary series.”

-Gerrard O'Donnovan, Telegraph.

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“The camerawork is excellent (intimate without being intrusive), the script is a model of clarity and precision.”

 - Victor Lewis Smith, Evening Standard