Dave Ridgway – Editor

Dave has worked as in-house editor at Pinch Media for the last two years. Over this period he has edited, done SFX and color correction for virals, corporate videos, documentaries and award-winning shorts, all shot on RED and HD. Dave is a Final Cut specialist and is fully proficient on After Effects and several more SFX software.

David Brown – Associate Producer

David is Head of Media for the Aegis Trust the UK’s leading genocide prevention organization. Based at the UK Holocaust Centre, Aegis is responsible for the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda and coordinates the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention in Westminster. David has made several short films for Aegis, including most recently ‘Darfur Destroyed: Sudan’s Perpetrators break silence‘.

David is now involved in several broadcast documentary projects.

Dolores Sesum – Translator, Assistant Editor

She graduated in 2006 from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Sarajevo. Her graduation piece was entitled “The Srebrenica Golgota” and it thematized the genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995 and has received the best notes from the artistic commission of the Academy. Dolores had worked on various projects as an expert consultant on artistic photography and video editing. One of her most important photographic consultancy works includes the selection of photography for the International Conference on the Srebrenica Genocide organized by the University of Sarajevo in July of 2005.

Ed Vulliamy – Journalist

A leading journalist and writer for the Guardian and the Observer, Ed reported extensively in the mid-1990s war in Bosnia, particularly on the inhumane conditions in which prisoners were kept in the concentration camp at Omarska. He also reported on 9-11 and has won Reporter of the Year several times.

Enrico Tessarin – Producer

Producer at New Treatment, Enrico is a graduate of LFS with ten years’ experience, working on documentaries, music videos, commercials and shorts. In 2006 Enrico was selected for EAVE (MEDIA-funded European production training) and in 2007 as one of the six producers from Film London ‘Passport’. He was also one of the 15 up-and-coming UK producers selected for the first London Production Finance Market. Since early 2007 he has worked on ‘Sofia’s Diary’, the first interactive web-series for Sony Television Europe, which successfully transferred to television on the new digital channel Fiver, from Channel Five.

Julian Phelan – Executive Producer

Julian is an award winning producer of documentary and feature-length films, including many made for the Discovery Channel and National Geographic in America. Julian has produced and filmed in Africa, America, Europe, Russia, Tibet and the Caucasus and continues to produce the World’s leading ethnographic films.

Leslie Woodward, Creative Developer

Leslie Woodward, International Programme Developer for the Center for Justice and Reconciliation (CJR), has an MA in International Studies with a focus in strategic peacebuilding and post-conflict development. She has worked for the Center for Sustainable Development and International Peace on the research and development of peacebuilding and statebuilding strategies for Somalia. Leslie has also worked with the Association for Concentration Camp Detainees in Bosnia and Herzegovina for which she co-coordinated a conference on concentration camp detainment.

Lord Paddy Ashdown – Diplomat

Lord Ashdown was Member of Parliament (MP) for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999; later he was the international High Representative for Bosnia Herzegovina from 27 May 2002 to 30 May 2006, reflecting his long-time advocacy of international intervention in that region. He succeeded Wolfgang Petritsch in the position created under the Dayton Agreement. On 14 March 2002, Ashdown testified as a witness for the prosecution at the trial of Slobodan Milošević at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Velma Saric – Producer, Resercher

Velma Saric, Project Manager for the Center for Justice and Reconciliation (CJR), has extensive journalism experience and has been reporting for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) on war crimes trials from the Hague tribunal and the Bosnia-Herzegovina War Crimes Court. From May 2004 to May 2008 she worked as an Expert Associate at the University of Sarajevo. Velma has also directed, coordinated and organized numerous educational programs and conferences with focuses ranging from genocide, to international law, to peace-building and reconciliation.