Jamie Doran is an Irish-Scottish independent

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and former

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producer.Hali, S. M. (2006-03-28)
"Afghan Blues!"
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'' He founded the award-winning company Clover Films, based in

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, in 2008. He is also president of Datchet Village Football Club, which he founded in 1986. Doran's films have been shown worldwide, and on series such as BBC's ''

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'', Channel 4's ''Dispatches'', Channel 4's ''True Stories'', PBS's ''Frontline'',

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, Germany's

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NDR/ ARD and Denmark's DR. Many of Doran's documentaries cover the lives of people caught up war zones around the world. His 2017 film ''The Boy Who Started the Syrian War'', which has received over 100 million views globally, centers on the story of how anti-Assad graffiti created by schoolboys had reportedly started the Syrian civil war. In 2016, his film ''ISIS in Afghanistan'' won two

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in the outstanding continuing coverage of a news story in a news magazine, and the best report in a news magazine categories, as well as a

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and three awards at the

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. In 2014, his film ''Pakistan's Hidden Shame'' exposed the sexual abuse of street boys in

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. The film won the grand jury award for best documentary at the United Nations Association Film Festival and received high commendation from the

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. His 2012 film ''Opium Brides'' focused on the collateral damage of the counter-narcotic effort in Afghanistan. It won an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism, and the duPont–Columbia award. In 2010, his film ''

The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan ''The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan'' is a 2010 documentary film produced by Clover Films and directed by Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi about the practice of ''bacha bazi'' in Afghanistan. The 52-minute documentary premiered in the UK at t ...

'' revealed the widespread and systematic child sex abuse by former

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commanders.

Filmography

Doran has directed and produced numerous documentaries, including:

Articles and interviews

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(2014-09-30)
Interview with 'Afghan Massacre' director Jamie Doran about Afghanistan's new vice president, notorious warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum

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(2014-09-01)
Interview with Jamie Doran about the sexual abuse of boys in Pakistan

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* Shihab-Eldin, Ahmed (2014-05-28)
'Syria: Arming The Rebels' producer Jamie Doran tells #WorldBrief about the covert U.S. training and arming program of Syrian rebels

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* Steinberg, Stefan (2002-06-17)
Interview with Jamie Doran, director of Massacre at Mazar
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''
"Did U.S. Forces Allow a Massacre of 3,000 Taliban Prisoners to Occur?" BuzzFlash asks Jamie Doran, Producer-Director of "Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death"
, BuzzFlash Interview, 2003-09-23 * Doran, Jamie (2002-09-02)
AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GRAVES: A drive to death in the desert
'' Le Monde Diplomatique''

References

External links

Jamie Doran's company profile
at clover-films.com
Jamie Doran's biography
on usindependents.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Doran, Jamie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Scottish documentary filmmakers Scottish film directors Film people from Glasgow Scottish people of Irish descent News & Documentary Emmy Award winners Peabody Award winners Scottish television producers Journalists from Glasgow