
David J Reid
Radio and TV documentary maker, presenter and university lecturer. BBC TV and Radio, ITN, UN and the Northern Film School
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Filmmaking
As a filmmaker I produced Killing for Conservation for BBC TV. It detailed the price in blood paid by indigenous communities for India's militaristic conservation policy. I also worked as director of photography and camera for the BBC's Innovators series, which highlighted the work of social entrepreneurs in India.
I also shot two episodes of On Assignment in India for ITN. One was a report on the water crisis in the southern city of Chennai, the other was a stomach churning examination of New Delhi's waste problem from the upper slopes of the worlds largest rubbish mountain.
In Africa, I made a series of films in Chad on the plight of refugees from the Darfur conflict for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. I also filmed in Ghana from the most polluted place on the planet, Accra's Agbogbloshie Beach, where European e-waste goes to die.
And more recently I made Extraordinary, which followed a local Manchester artist as she met and painted some the city's leading drag artists.