CHANNEL 4 In 1997 Prime Minister Tony Blair promised the nation that there would be no forgotten people in the Britain he would build. Old is an investigative documentary from Kate Blewett and Brian Woods (Eyes of a Child, Slavery and The Dying Rooms) that shows that being old and forgotten are tragic, undeniable realities for many people in Blair’s … Read More

BBC ONE/DISCOVERY Hidden away in the very darkest corners of countries that would rather not acknowledge their existence, there is an army of children Children are tortured in police custody. They are held in prisons in inhuman and degrading conditions. They are denied the due process which should guarantee them fair trials. They are sentenced without ever seeing a courtroom. … Read More

CHANNEL 4 Slavery is officially banned internationally by all countries, yet despite this, in the world today there are more slaves now than ever before. In the four hundred years of the slave trade around 13 million people were shipped from Africa. Today there are an estimated 27 million slaves – people paid no money, locked away and controlled by … Read More

CHANNEL 4 Everyone knows the genocide of the Jews; the fact that the Romanies were victims of the same criminal and racist policies is unknown or ignored. Beautifully portrayed through the individual stories of Vera, Tibor, Anna and Antonie, and woven together with the music and poetry of the Romas, this film brings alive the dignity of the Romany People … Read More

BBC ONE “A harrowing documentary about the impact of poverty on children was aired on BBC One last Monday evening. Eyes of the Child, viewed by millions, was followed by an hour-long debate on its content on Newsnight. The film crew who worked on the programme were responsible for a previous groundbreaking documentary that looked behind the scenes of China’s orphanages. Filmed … Read More

CHANNEL 4/HBO HBO’s latest documentary, “Innocents Lost,” is a stunning expose of global child abuse, as painful to watch as it is important to know about. Filmmakers Kate Blewett and Brian Woods make some sweeping charges in their narration (“Governments everywhere abuse their children”) that they don’t entirely document. But they do offer a devastating account of exploitation that touches … Read More

CHANNEL 4 The Dying Rooms is a 1995 television documentary film about Chinese state orphanages. It was directed by Kate Blewett and Brian Woods and produced by Lauderdale Productions. It first aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and in 1996, was aired on Cinemax.