11 March 2025
Antidote will have its Canadian premiere in the Special Presentations strand at Hot Docs.
11 March 2025
Antidote will have its UK cinema release this Friday.
21 February 2025
Dogwoof boards James’ new film, Fukushima.
13 February 2025
Antidote will have the premiere of the finished film at the amazing CPH:DOX where it is in the F:ACT competition.
25 July 2024
Wanted has been nominated for an Emmy in the Crime and Justice Documentary category.
7 July 2024
Antidote has been selected to play in the TRUTH DOX competition at Dokufest festival in August. The screening will be the film’s European premiere.
13 June 2024
Antidote has won the Best Editing in a Feature Documentary award at Tribeca Film Festival.
4 June 2024
Antidote has been chosen as one of the ten films Variety are most excited about.
18 April 2024
Tribeca Festival has announced that Antidote will be part of its Official Selection, playing in the Documentary Competition.
24 April 2023
Rupert Houseman won a BAFTA Craft Award for Editing on Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes.
22 March 2023
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes has been nominated at the BAFTA TV Awards for Single Documentary. Rupert Houseman has been nominated for Editing and James Jones for Directing at the BAFTA Craft Awards.
12 January 2023
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes won a Cinema Eye Honors award.
5 December 2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes won a Royal Television Society Craft Award for Sound.
28 November 2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes was nominated at the Broadcast Awards for Best Documentary.
11 November 2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes was nominated at the International Documentary Association Awards.
24 October 2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes was nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors Award.
23 May 2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes was shortlisted for a Grierson Award in Best Single Documentary International.
23 May 2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes was nominated for a Broadcast Digital Award for Best Documentary.
9 April 2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Grand Jury Award at Full Frame Film Festival.
24 March 2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes will have its US premiere at Full Frame Festival on 7th April.
23 March 2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes will be screening at Bertha Dochouse in London from 25th March.
6 March 2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes will have benefit screenings for Ukraine at Bertha Dochouse in London on March 16th and Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto on March 17th.
29 September 2021
Apple TV has announced our new series on Carlos Ghosn.
9 August 2021
The Riots received a range of excellent reviews, including a five-star review in the Times.
2 August 2021
The Riots will be broadcast at 9pm on Monday 9th August on BBC Two.
14 June 2021
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced that she is formally seeking an investigation into the Philippine government’s deadly “war on drugs”. Our film On The President’s Orders is cited as evidence.
25 January 2021
Sky has announced the production of Chernobyl 86.
24 November 2020
Olivier won an RTS Craft Award for Photography for On The President’s Orders.
16 October 2020
James and Olivier are nominated for the Rory Peck Sony Impact Award.
6 August 2020
On The President’s Orders is nominated for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary at the Emmys.
23 July 2020
On The President’s Orders is shortlisted for a Grierson Award for Current Affairs Documentary.
8 April 2020
On The President’s Orders is longlisted for the One World Media Awards.
25 November 2019
On The President’s Orders won the Special Jury Prize at HumanDoc Film Festival last night.
28 September 2019
On The President’s Orders won the prize for Best UK Feature last night at Raindance Film Festival.
6 September 2019
On The President’s Orders will have its UK cinema release at Bertha Dochouse in London on 27 September.
1 September 2019
On The President’s Orders has been selected to play in the Deadline/IDA For The Love of Docs screening series in LA. It will play at the Landmark Theater on 24 September.
30 August 2019
On The President’s Orders has been selected as part of the IDA Documentary Screening Series. It will screen on 17 October at the Landmark Theater in LA.
12 May 2019
On The President’s Orders will have its UK Premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest in June.
2 May 2019
On The President’s Orders got a great reception at Hot Docs with reviews in Variety, POV, and elsewhere.
1 May 2019
On The President’s Orders will have its US Premiere at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York in June.
19 March 2019
On The President’s Orders will have its North American Premiere at Hot Docs in April.
22 February 2019
On The President’s Orders will have its World Premiere at CPH:DOX in March.
6 February 2019
The Fight for Mosul won Best Documentary at the Broadcast Awards.
11 December 2018
Mosul is part of the Frontline team to win a DuPont Gold Baton, the first awarded in a decade.
21 November 2018
The Fight for Mosul is nominated for Best Documentary at the Broadcast Awards.
24 October 2018
Mosul is nominated at the International Documentary Association awards. Members will vote in November.
12 October 2018
The Fight for Mosul won at the Frontline Club awards last night.
3 October 2018
The Fight for Mosul is nominated at the Frontline Club awards.
2 October 2018
Mosul won an Emmy last night for Outstanding Cinematography.
28 September 2018
Mosul wins the Venice TV Award for Documentary.
24 September 2018
The Fight for Mosul is nominated at the AIBs.
17 September 2018
The Fight for Mosul is nominated for a Grierson Award in the Best Current Affairs Documentary category.
26 July 2018
Mosul is nominated for two Emmys - Outstanding Short Documentary and Outstanding Cinematography.
26 July 2018
Mosul is shortlisted for a Grierson Award in two categories - Best Documentary - International and Best Current Affairs Documentary.
19 June 2018
Mosul wins the Grand Jury Prize at the Golden Nymphs.
24 April 2018
Mosul is nominated for Best Documentary at the Golden Nymphs.
23 April 2018
Mosul is nominated for Television Documentary at the One World Media Awards.
22 March 2018
Olivier has been nominated for a BAFTA Craft Award in the Cinematography category for Mosul.
21 March 2018
Mosul has won The Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Documentary at the Overseas Press Club Awards.
21 November 2017
I've written an article in the Huffington Post about Olivier and Mosul.
9 November 2017
Mosul will be screening in cinemas in New York, LA and San Francisco this weekend.
1 November 2017
The Fight for Mosul will be broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK at 10pm on 7 November. The trailer will start running this week.
6 October 2017
Last night Saudi Arabia Uncovered won an International Emmy in the Current Affairs category.
19 September 2017
Unarmed Black Male is nominated for a Grierson - Best Single Documentary - International.
19 August 2017
The trailer for our new film Mosul is out.
12 August 2017
Our film MOSUL - filmed and directed by Olivier Sarbil - will be playing in LA at the end of the month. Details to follow.
8 August 2017
Saudi Arabia Uncovered is nominated for an International Emmy in the Current Affairs category.
27 July 2017
Unarmed Black Male is shortlisted for a Grierson - Best Single Documentary - International.
21 June 2017
Saudi Arabia Uncovered won the Jury Grand Prize at the Golden Nymphs last night.
11 April 2017
Unarmed Black Male is nominated for a BAFTA in the Current Affairs category.
11 April 2017
Saudi Arabia Uncovered is nominated in the Documentary category at the Golden Nymphs.
2 March 2017
Last night Saudi Arabia Uncovered won the Royal Television Society Award for Current Affairs: International.
28 February
Last week I gave a talk about Saudi Arabia at the Geneva Summit. The video is up now.
8 February 2017
Unarmed Black Male and Saudi Arabia Uncovered are both nominated at the Royal Television Society TV Journalism Awards.
28 January 2017
Olivier Sarbil's film Hunting ISIS which I've been working on will broadcast on PBS on Tuesday night.
15 December 2016
Escaping ISIS has won a DuPont Award 2017.
21 October 2016
Our feature-length documentary Unarmed Black Male will be broadcast at 9pm on BBC Two on 2 November.
2 October 2016
Saudi Arabia Uncovered is nominated for an Amnesty Media Award - Best Documentary.
20 September 2016
Children of the Gaza War is nominated for a Grierson alongside films by Alex Gibney, Sean McAllister and Jerry Rothwell.
26 July 2016
Saudi Arabia Uncovered and Children of the Gaza War are both shortlisted for the Grierson Awards.
12 May 2016
Escaping ISIS has won a 2016 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.
28 April 2016
Escaping ISIS has won an Overseas Press Club of America Award.
19 April 2016
I've written an article for the i paper. Why the damning report on Saudi involvement in 9/11 should be published.
30 March 2016
Our film Children of the Gaza War is nominated for a BAFTA in the Current Affairs category.
29 March 2016
Frontline have done a Q&A with me on making the film on Saudi Arabia.
28 March 2016
Carol Nahra at DocsonScreen has done a Q&A with me on the Saudi film.
9 March 2016
The trailer for Saudi Arabia Uncovered has gone live on the Frontline website.
9 March 2016
Our next film Saudi Arabia Uncovered will be broadcast in the UK on 22 March on ITV and on 29 March in the US on PBS Frontline.
29 September 2015
Battle for Ukraine won an Emmy last night. Here's my acceptance speech.
13 September 2015
The Emmys will be held at the Lincoln Center, New York City, on the evening of 28th September. Battle for Ukraine is up against films from the New York Times, Vice, PBS Frontline and 60 Minutes.
22 July 2015
Our film Battle for Ukraine has been nominated for an Emmy.
5 July 2015
Another film I've been working on Escaping ISIS will air on PBS Frontline on 14th July.
1 July 2015
The trailer for Children of Gaza is now running on the BBC.
23 June 2015
Our film Children of the Gaza War has got an air date: 8th July at 9pm on BBC Two.
17 December 2014
Our Frontline film Syria's Second Front has won a DuPont Award 2015.
19 November 2014
The undercover team who filmed for North Korea: Life Inside the Secret State won the Rory Peck Award for Features.