Sarah Errington
Producer, A Mysterious Death

Sarah Errington is an award winning Television Producer working mainly with the BBC. This followed a career in Radio and Photo-Journalism She has specialist knowledge of Africa and a working knowledge of India, Asia and South America.

She spent nine months in Southern Sudan living with the Dinka cattle herders, photographing them for a book for Time-Life Warriors of the White Nile. She was the originator of the BAFTA nominated BBC Documentary The Dinka Bride and produced the award winning film from Northern Sudan, Fatma's Prayer.

Sarah is planning to produce a film in Sudan about the life of the Rashaida, Bedouin nomads formerly from Arabia.

Documentary Film credits:

A Gun For Sale: BBC
A film about Karamojong cattle raiders in Uganda


Looking for Allah in England: BBC1
Conversion to Islam in London, how it affects three young families.

No Place Like Home: BBC1
A Liverpool woman searches for her mother in Northern Somalia

Fatma's Prayer: BBC2
A Sudanese woman realises her dream to return to her village.
"Haunting film" The Guardian
"Visually Stunning" Daily Mail
Pierre-Alain Donor Award and special mention by the Jury

Radio/Photo-journalism/print: BBC, Associated Press, National & International Newspapers & Magazines, NGOs & the UN
Reporting included:
Eritrean/Ethiopian war (plus critically acclaimed ITV documentary). The Angolan war. News/feature reports from much of Africa. Afghanistan (with the Mujahedin) during the Russian occupation. Vietnam, before, during and after the fall of Ho Chi Minh City and remaining (the only British journalist) in Vietnam for 5 more months.

John Bulmer studied engineering at Cambridge. and became an award winning freelance photographer working for magazines such as The Sunday Times, Look, Life and Holiday, travelling to over eighty countries on their behalf. His photographs have been exhibited in London and New York. He started making films by working with Mai Zetterling on 'Vincent the Dutchman' a film about Van Gogh for the BBC, winner of a BAFTA award for best documentary. Since then he has directed and photographed over thirty films from around the world, and photographed many more, including drama on 35mm Panavision.

John is presently editing a film about the Surma people in Ethiopia, one of two films he has recently made for Discovery Channel.

Productions:

The Search for Shangri-La For the BBC and PBS
An expedition to far western Tibet with Charles Alan and Mark Shand

Dances with Llamas For the BBC
With Llama herders 14,000ft up in the mountains of Bolivia

The Beast of Bardia For Channel 4
An expedition to find a rare Elephant in western Nepal

Empty Quarter For the BBC
Crossing the empty quarter in Arabia by camel with writer Sandy Gall

Bull Magic For the BBC and National Geographic
Bull racing on the island of Madura off Eastern Java

Women of the Yellow Earth For the BBC
Two families in northern China, the main character is forcibly sterilised

The Painter and The Fighter Channel 4 and National Geographic
The Surma people who are body painters and ritual stick fighters in Ethiopia

Queen of Elephants For Channel 4 and Discovery Channel
With Mark Shand through Northern India on Elephant back

Finite Oceans For Discovery Channel
With Dr Roger Payne on pollution of the World