Pearl Works Productions
Storytelling from around the world
Pearl Works is an award-winning production company, which creates media productions from around the globe. We have reported from more than fifty countries for the BBC, the Guardian, and other media organisations, foundations, academic
institutions and charities.
Just one inch of water
Audio and photo assignment for Bangladesh's Centre for Injury Prevention and Research reporting on their initiatives to prevent children drowning in rural Bangladesh. Our story was carried by BBC Health Check.
The Yorkshire Rainforest
We travelled to the Peruvian Amazon with Rainforest UK to film their work with the Ashaninka Indians.
©Mike Goldwater.
My Stolen Childhood
Award-winning BBC documentary about ritual slavery in West Africa.
Etai, set in Teso, Uganda, explores the power of indigenous knowledge and the need to develop stronger relationships with each other and the environment. Directed by Sally Bashford-Squires and filmed by Sonyanga Weblen.
Rewilding the System
Art Ecology Residency with Art Bomb UK, profiling stories of climate change activism in the UK and Ethiopia.
The Refugee Journey
Radio documentary for the BBC World Service about the journeys of refugees to the UK.
Art out of the Ashes
The courageous artist sending her work back to Syria, commissioned by BBC Newsnight and BBC Online.
A Stitch for Syria
This report for BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, and short film, tell the stories of Syrian refugees and Lebanese women in Tripoli trying to reduce sectarian tensions between families in their neighbourhoods. A collaboration with the charity, Concern.
Writing the World Backwards
Award-winning experimental film about the life story of artist Lorna Collins.
The village where half the people are at risk of blindness
Ethiopia has one of the highest rates of trachoma in the world. We travelled to the Oromia region, where ground-breaking surgical work is giving people back their sight. Report on BBC World and BBC Online.