Biography
Jess Kelly is a multi award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in London. She has dedicated much of her career to making investigative documentaries in the Middle East. Her BBC film "Under Poisoned Skies" which investigates the toxic pollution caused by oil companies in Iraq won five awards and resulted in a landmark legal case against BP. In 2021 she was nominated for a BAFTA for her films, “Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market” (BBC, 2019) and “The Schools That Chain Boys” (BBC, 2020). The later tells the story of systemic child abuse in Sudan's Islamic Schools through the eyes of a former pupil. It won an RTS award, an Amnesty award and was nominated for a Grierson Award. In 2018, she directed "Palestine Underground" which follows a crew of techno and hiphop producers in the Occupied Territories and sheds light on the restraints Palestinian artists face as a result of Israel's occupation.
Credits
| American Mercenaries: Killing In Yemen | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Panorama | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Iraq: Under Poisoned Skies | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| India's Rape Scandal | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Schools That Chain Boys, The | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Inside The Real Saudi Arabia: Why I Had To Leave | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Our World | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Journey In The Danger Zone: Iraq | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Stacey Dooley In Greece: Migrant Kids In Crisis | 1 episode | View | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Unreported World | 4 episodes | View | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards
Skills
- Hostile environment
- Self-shooting