Olly Lambert with his 2013 AIB Award
AIB is pleased to announce that next month’s AIB Awards, honouring the highest achievements in factual TV, radio and online programming worldwide, will feature award-winning director Olly Lambert as the evening’s special In Conversation guest.
Lambert has been called “one of the most talented documentary filmmakers working in British television” by The Times and is also the first Filmmaker in Residence for BBC’s Newsnight. AIB’s In Conversation will allow the director to take the stage and answer questions about his creative process, his challenges as a filmmaker, and the state of factual content production.
Last year’s AIB In Conversation guest was photojournalist Giles Duley. You can watch the In Conversation interview with Duley, hosted by AIB’s Simon Spanswick, here.
Olly Lambert’s Channel 4 documentary, Syria: Across The Lines, won the prestigious AIB Award for best Middle East documentary in 2013 and has gone on to win numerous other awards, including an Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Current News Story, a BAFTA for Best Current Affairs Programme, and the Rory Peck Award for Best Broadcast. Lambert was also nominated for an Emmy for his documentary The Bombing of Al-Bara.
Syria: Across the Lines featured an unflinching look at the residents of Syria’s Orontes River Valley and how their peaceful coexistance had been torn apart by the radicalisation and sectarianism of Syria’s civil war.
The AIB Awards will take place on 5 November at the spectacular LSO St. Luke’s in London and will be hosted by BBC presenter Matthew Amroliwala. Tickets are still available through the Awards website or by calling +44 (0) 207 993 2557.
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