James Jones (documentary maker)

Jones receiving a News and Documentary Emmy in New York in September 2015.

James Jones is an award-winning British director who makes documentary films for international television and theatrical release.

Career

James Jones is a two-time Emmy Award-winning and five-time BAFTA-nominated director. His films are broadcast around the world, primarily on the BBC, Channel 4 and PBS Frontline.^[1][2][3]

His first television film was Nigeria: Sex, Lies and Black Magic (2011).^[4] Since then he has tackled difficult subjects like suicide in the military and homelessness. He has also made films in some of the most difficult places in the world, like North Korea and Saudi Arabia. His film Children of the Gaza War was broadcast on the BBC in July 2015 on the first anniversary of the 2014 Gaza war.^[5] In 2016 he made the critically acclaimed feature-length documentary Unarmed Black Male about the murder trial of a police officer in Portsmouth, Virginia. Recently, he co-directed the Emmy-winning Mosul with Olivier Sarbil.

His films have won two Emmys, two DuPonts, a Grierson, a Rory Peck, a Royal Television Society, two Overseas Press Club of America, two Golden Nymphs, and have been nominated five times at the BAFTAs.

He is now working on a feature documentary on the drug war in the Philippines – On The President’s Orders - for FRONTLINE PBS, Arte France, and BBC Storyville. The film will be released in early 2019.

Filmography

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