CBC’s The National & CTV’s W5

Between 2000 and 2012, Alexandre Trudeau and I worked intermittently together on numerous geopolitical conflict documentaries for Canada’s premier current affairs and documentary programs The National (CBC) and W5 (CTV), including:

THE NEW GREAT GAME (2012) – a docuseries about pirates, pariahs and world powers competing for strategic global waterways, featuring interviews with Robert Kaplan and Noam Chomsky (CBC’s The National). 

SECURE FREEDOM (2006) – a documentary shot in Canada and Syria about terror suspects being held without trial in Canada’s “Guantanamo light,” which aired on the 5th anniversary of 9/11 to over 600,000 viewers (CTV’s W5).

BELGRADE: ONE YEAR AFTER (2000) – a documentary about activist youth in Serbia who helped defeat the Milošević regime at the polls (CBC’s The National Magazine).  

EMBEDDED IN BAGHDAD (2003) – Trudeau embeds himself with a family in Baghdad during the 2003 “Shock and Awe” bombing campaign, seen by over 1.5 million viewers on its primetime premiere (CTV’s W5).

OUR THIRD CHANCE (2005) – a radio docuseries about Canada’s peacekeeping legacy, featuring Gen. Roméo Dallaire, UN peacekeeping force commander for Rwanda during the genocide and Louise Arbour, Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (CBC Radio’s The Current).

Our first project together was the NFB-funded LIBERIA: THE SECRET WAR, Official Selection at the Vancouver International Film Festival and winner at Festival International Vues d’Afrique, shot over 6 months together in war torn Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Also for the CBC (but without Trudeau), in 2019 I wrote and directed the video content for the AFTER MUNICH interactive documentary with Friends & Enemies.

Private screen links to the full documentaries are available on request.