Biography
Hazel Chandler is an award winning documentary filmmaker with a Masters in film from the Royal College of Art. She has over 20 years experience working for most major broadcasters – BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and Aljazeera and has filmed in many conflict zones and has her Hostile Environment training. She spends half her time in Sierra Leone where she runs an organisation offering media and music training to street youth, many of whom are ex combatants. As a director she makes feature documentaries, current affairs, documentary series, music clips and as a producer short dramas.
Do Demons Die? -Feature documentary in production supported by World View.
Emergency –inside Emergency hospital Sierra Leone (2014)
Mitu’s Story – Aljazeera- Female foeticide (2013)Best doc feminist FF
Corporations on Trial– Oil pollution Series 'amongst the network's top achievements' (2009)
Beneath the Neon - Aljazeera – USA life in the tunnels of Las Vegas – (2009)
WAYout- music is Sierra Leone, winner various, best doc Philadelphia (2008)
Exxon in the Dock -Aljazeera – Indonesia (2006) nominated for Best Documentary Asian TV Awards
Not Forgotten – BBC2 – Far Eastern POWs war trauma
Heart of SOWETO – 4 part series BBC2 -Choice major newspapers
