Nicholas Claxton

Nicholas Claxton is the Managing Director of Elaph Publishing, the largest online daily newspaper in the Middle East. He is also a Director of First Watch TV, a media incubation company specializing in the development of multi-media concepts. He was the Founder and Managing Director of the Web TV The Underwater Channel with Babelgum as its principal investor. He is also an award-winning documentary film-maker with extensive credits as an Executive Producer, Director & Producer with the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, National Geographic,Discovery, A&E Network, Disney, among others. ^[1]

He was joint producer of a 1984 television documentary Cry Ethiopia Cry (on the Ethiopian famine) which won a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award for outstanding background/analysis of a single current story.^[2]

He won New York International Film and Television Festival awards for Apartheid’s Assassins (1991), on South African death squads; and Winnie Mandela and The Missing Witness (1997).^[3] His South African visa exemption was withdrawn following the BBC broadcast of Suffer the Children (1988), on the detention and torture of children.^[4]

Claxton is Research Project Documentary Film Director for the Khaled Bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Red Sea Project^[5] and conceived the idea for a free broadband channel dedicated to the underwater world came about when Nicholas Claxton was producing a television documentary about Red Sea coral reefs in 2006, working with the underwater cameraman Peter Scoones. Nicholas is a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society and lives in London.

References

1. ^ "Nicholas Claxton - Credits". http://tv.yahoo.com/nicholas-claxton/contributor/270814/. Retrieved 1 January 2009. 
2. ^ "Cry, Ethiopia, Cry". http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/info/222.html. Retrieved 1 January 2009. 
3. ^ "IMDb resume: Nicholas Claxton". http://us.imdb.com/name/nm2452753/resume. Retrieved 1 January 2009. 
4. ^ "Nicholas Claxton, has had his visa exemption to enter South Africa withdrawn". The Times (Times Newspapers Limited). 1988-08-05. 
5. ^ "Mr. Nicholas Claxton". http://redsea.livingoceansfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=138&Itemid=255. Retrieved 1 January 2009. 

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