Dominic Ozanne

I'm a Grierson Trust and Royal Television Society Award nominated Director and Producer with over 20 years of experience making documentaries across a range of genres including ob docs, history, current affairs and travel.

I grew up in southern Africa - in Swaziland and Lesotho and have made many films on African subjects.

I was trained at the London International Film School and began my career as an independent producer in the 1990s. I established my own production company - Marquee Film & TV - making films for BBC Inside Story and a Dispatches for C4, 'The Khartoum Connection' investigating the first attack on the world trade centre in 1995. This was the first piece of investigative reporting to identify Osama Bin Laden - who was then living in Khartoum - as the sponsor of acts of international terrorism, five years before 9/11. In the late '90s spent five years making a film for BBC Storyville about the coronation of King of Lesotho and his search for a wife. I spent another five years filming teenage footballers - both white from Johannesburg and black from Soweto - who dreamed of becoming soccer stars in the New South Africa. 'Football & Freedom' was shown on in the BBC 'This World' strand.
In 2014 I made a film about a surgeon who travelled to Aleppo at the height of the war in Syria, ‘A & E in the War Zone’, that was shortlisted for a Grierson Award for Best Current Affairs programme. For the past few years I have mostly been working as a Series Producer and Director makings series such as: ‘Sacred Rivers’ for the BBC, looking at the culture of people living along the banks of the Nile, Ganges and Yangtze, that was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for Best Factual Series in 2015.

During a long and varied career I've worked with many talented actors including Martin Clunes, Alexander Armstrong, Joanna Lumley and Dame Diana Rigg.