Nick Shaw is an independent

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and

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He is known for his direction, writing and Film editing of the independent, fair trade film, ''

Bananas Unpeeled ''Bananas Unpeeled'' is a 26-minute film shot in Latin America and the Caribbean, investigating the social and environmental issues faced by plantation workers and small farmers in the Caribbean. It examines fair trade policies and labeling as ...

'', highlighting the plight of

plantation Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tob ...

workers in Central America and the

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, with an introduction by political activist and comedian,

Mark Thomas Mark Clifford Thomas (born 11 April 1963) is an English comedian, best known for the political stunts that he performs on his show, ''The Mark Thomas Comedy Product'' on Channel 4. Thomas first became known as a guest comic on the BBC Radio 1 ...

. In 1988, he was commissioned by the

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to produce a feature documentary on the singer-songwriter,

Ted Hawkins Ted Hawkins (October 28, 1936 – January 1, 1995) was an American singer-songwriter born in Biloxi, Mississippi. He split his time between his adopted hometown of Venice Beach, California, where he was a mostly anonymous street performer, ...

. Although the documentary was never released, some of the footage appears in the 1996 film ''Ted Hawkins: Amazing Grace''. Recently he has worked on ''Dean Spanley'', ''

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'', '' Malice in Wonderland'', and ''Series III'' of '' Kingdom''. In 2010 he worked on Hugo for Martin Scorsese. Filming in 3D at Shepperton Studios took over six months to complete, and will be released in December 2011. Also in 2010 he appears in the Ealing Film Studios comedy Burke and Hare, as a barman for director John Landis. He has worked for various NGO's. Both with

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during the farm trial evaluations of

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crops, and with

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, gathering testimonial evidence to complaints from the local diocese in Central America. Earlier in his life, he was a freelance stills photographer, commissioned on board various Soviet

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, including and . He later worked in New York City as a freelance stills photographer.

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