Michael Davie

Current

• Correspondent at HDNET - World Report
• Producer and Director at National Geographic Channel

Past

• Producer at National Geographic
• Producer/Director at Essential Media and Entertainment
• Documentary film producer, director and correspondent at National Geographic Televison and Film

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Education

• The University of Queensland

Connections

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Industry

Entertainment

Michael Davie’s Summary

Zimbabwean-born documentary filmmaker Michael Davie started his career as a television journalist in rural Australia. This soon gave way to his love for travel and adventure. He spent eight months hitch-hiking from Cape Town to Cairo, with a backpack and a video camera, in search of the spirit of African youth. The result was the critically acclaimed four-part series for ABC Australia and Channel 4 (UK), Afrika! Cape Town to Cairo (1998). Michael then took up a position as a staff filmmaker for National Geographic Television in Washington DC. There Michael made War Child (1999) about the Albanian refugee crisis, and won an Emmy. This was followed by War Diary (1999) an account of the conflict in Kosovo. Davie then produced and directed World Diaries, a series of one-hour specials about conflict and human rights for National Geographic. These included Apartheid’s Children (2000), Honor Among Men: The Killing of Women in Pakistan (2001), and Days of Rage-The Intifiada (2002). In 2003 he completed two x 2-hour specials for National Geographic’s Ultimate Explorer program: Death on Denali which documented the lives of rescue climbers on North America’s highest mountain, and Liberia: American Dream, which documented the last days of the Liberian civil war and the country’s transition to peace. Liberia won the Edward R. Murrow award, the Colombia-DuPont award, a New York Film Festival Gold Medal and was nominated for an Emmy. Davie has recently completed The Choir, a feature documentary shot over six years following the lives of inmates in the choir at Johannesburg’s Leeuwkop Prison.

Michael Davie’s Specialties:

I am an experienced documentary film director who has also shot, written and narrated the majority of the films I have worked on.

Michael Davie’s Experience

• Correspondent

  HDNET - World Report

  (Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

  2008 The Great Australian Drought: A 30-minute documentary examining the collapse of Australia's agricultural sector as a result of climate change and the misuse of natural resources.
  
  2008 La Oroya: A Billionaire’s Shame
  A 50-minute documentary on American industrialist Ira Rennert’s lead smelter in La Oroya, Peru and the devastation to the environment .
  
  2008 Medicine Hunter
  A 30-minute documentary on medicine hunter Chris Kilham’s expedition to the highlands of Peru in search of indigenous remedies.
  
  2007 Venezuela: Hugo Chavez’s Black Magic
  A 45-minute documentary investigating allegations that President Hugo Chavez invokes superstition and religion to extend his anti-US influence throughout Latin America.
  
  2007 The Bombers of Tetouan
  A 30-minute documentary on the rise of terrorism in Morocco.
  
  2007 Iraqi Exiles
  A 30-minute documentary investigating the persecution of gay and lesbian Iraqis and their exodus to the UK.

• Producer and Director

  National Geographic Channel

  (Entertainment industry)

  2000 — Present (9 years)

• Producer

  National Geographic

  (Entertainment industry)

  1999 — 2008 (9 years)

• Producer/Director

  Essential Media and Entertainment

  (Entertainment industry)

  2006 — 2008 (2 years)

• Documentary film producer, director and correspondent

  National Geographic Televison and Film

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Entertainment industry)

  January 1999 — January 2005 (6 years 1 month)

Michael Davie’s Education

• The University of Queensland

  BA , English, journalism , 1992 — 1995

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