Lebanese, based between London & Beirut. Produce and direct documentary films
London, England
Joined October 2013
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Vanessa Bowles retweeted
One airstrike in Gaza killed her whole family.
8-year old Mirfat lost 26 members of her family in one airstrike on Gaza. She is one of many wounded children without any remaining family in the wake of the Israel - Gaza war.
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Congrats to all the team at @Basement_Films in London and Gaza - a stand out film that is as urgent a year on from when it aired on @C4Dispatches 👏👏👏@bendepear @VanBowles @JoannaPotts
And the winner of the #AmnestyMediaAwards 2025 💫 BROADCAST FEATURE 💫 award is...
🏆 @Basement_Films for @Channel4News with 'Kill Zone: Inside Gaza 🏆
@VanBowles Melanie Quigley @bendepear Jaber Badwan👏👏
Watch it here: channel4.com/programmes/kill…
Vanessa Bowles retweeted
Our thanks and respect to @C4Dispatches @NevMab jo Potts and all the fearless compliance team who got this out there when it needs to be seen - as soon as possible. An example to all in UK broadcasting
Vanessa Bowles retweeted
Huge congratulations to Jaber Badwan and the whole team who made the incredible Kill Zone @NevMab @Basement_Films @VanBowles Melanie Quigley @bendepear 👏👏👏 @C4Dispatches
Director of Photography Jaber Badwan takes home the BAFTA for Emerging Talent: Factual for his work on Kill Zone: Inside Gaza 👏 #BAFTACraftAwards
ALT Designed graphic with teal, pink and red colours and a glass fluting effect with an image from ‘Kill Zone : Inside Gaza’ and the text reads ‘Emerging Talent: Factual Winner – Jaber Badwan, Kill Zone: Inside Gaza’ with the BAFTA Television Craft Awards logo in the top right hand corner.
Today – at Great Wymondley, England
Over 124 journalists were killed in 2024 say @CPJ - highest since their records began. This @HCICCambridge @CRASSHlive @Cambridge_Fest event examines high risks in pursuit of truth in war @timSingSkyNews Dr Mark Grant @AP @VanBowles @elenacosentino4 @INSInews @dorotheabyrne
Vanessa Bowles retweeted
Over 124 journalists were killed in 2024 say @CPJ - highest since their records began. This @HCICCambridge @CRASSHlive @Cambridge_Fest event examines high risks in pursuit of truth in war @timSingSkyNews Dr Mark Grant @AP @VanBowles @elenacosentino4 @INSInews @dorotheabyrne
I’m so honoured and proud to have worked with DOP @jaberphotos on our film Kill Zone. And as dark as it is to think about, I’m so relieved that he is still alive. Congrats on his @BAFTA nomination, I’ve never known anyone who is more deserving of it – at Hackney, London
We are very proud that our DOP @jaberphotos Jaber Badwan on "Kill Zone: Inside Gaza" has been nominated by @BAFTA ; Awards mean little compared to the killing of 200 journalists & film makers but their work means no-one can say they didn't see the horror channel4.com/programmes/kill…
Our film on the first 6months of the genocide in Gaza is only a drop in the ocean of Israel’s policies of collective punishment and ethnic cleansing, enabled by global impunity.
'Kill Zone: Inside Gaza' has been awarded the Impact Award for Current Affairs at the #RoryPeckAwards and Best Foreign Affairs Journalism at the #BritishJournalismAwards.
Since the Dispatches special aired in May, thousands more Palestinians have been killed in Gaza.
Vanessa Bowles retweeted
V proud our @C4Dispatches Kill Zone: Inside Gaza channel4.com/programmes/kill… is nominated for the @rorypecktrust Awards congrats @VanBowles @jaber_badwan @Hind_Gaza @abdalhkem_abu_riash
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@Mahmoud_Mashharawi & all; 120 journalists have been killed in Gaza
It continues and the world watches on… The outright murdering of Palestinian journalists and civilians in Gaza by Israel
Watch Aljazeera Arabic anchor @AJArabic crying as she receives breaking news via her earpiece that her colleague Gaza correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami Al-Rifi were assassinated in their car by an Israeli missile. The anchor says that her murdered colleagues had just been reporting on the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh. In the second clip you can hear another Gaza correspondent Anas al-Sharif crying as he reports on the murder of his 2 colleagues.
Vanessa Bowles retweeted
Join us for #WARMFestival2024 movie night at Meeting Point cinema! We're screening two powerful documentaries: "Israel’s Reel Extremism" by Inigo Gilmore and Karim Shah and "KILL ZONE: INSIDE GAZA" by Vanessa Bowles. Screenings start at 830 PM.
A 5-star review of our film - so much appreciation for the team in Gaza, who manage to keep documenting the atrocities around them despite it all theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
Vanessa Bowles retweeted
Next up, the winner of Digital Creativity award is ‘Queer Egypt Under Attack’ from @BBCNews
A big congratulations to Ahmed Shihab-Eldin @ASE, @VanBowles and the BBC team
Watch the programme here: bit.ly/44xwcAJ
#AmnestyMediaAwards
Showing our film '#QueerEgypt Under Attack' at the @frontlineclub on Tuesday, 28th of Feb. Come join the conversation chaired by @ramitanavai, with me, our reporter @ASE, the producer @mamdouhakbiek and one of our experts @NoraNoralla from Cairo52 eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening…
Vanessa Bowles retweeted
#GriersonAwards winner for @channel5_tv Best History Documentary is Once Upon a Time in Iraq
presented by @XanderArmstrong
@keofilms
Vanessa Bowles retweeted
#GriersonAwards winner for @NetflixUK Best Documentary Series is Once Upon a Time in Iraq
presented by #FilippoScotti
@keofilms
So so proud that #OnceUponaTimeinIraq won this... Really, it's thanks to the incredible contributors that had the courage & generosity to share how their lives were impacted by the unyielding struggles they were confronted with
The #DocEmmys Award for Outstanding Historical Documentary goes to "Once Upon A Time In Iraq," @PBS @frontlinepbs.
An @Otherfield update! We've got some programme confirmations-our special guest is Andrea Luka Zimmerman and films from Iryna Tislyk, Jerry Rothwell, Nadia Kamel and Lina Alabed 1/3
Also workshops on clumsiness in our working process, finding beauty and grace in unfinished projects and what filmmakers can learn from midwives (!) as well as a return of the group therapy for filmmakers, lost gems, rough cut screenings and more! 2/3
We are reducing the capacity of the event so get your tickets soon to avoid disappointment! Tickets are available via our website: otherfield.uk/
