Jamie Doran

For the rugby league player, see Jamie Doran (rugby league).

Not to be confused with Jamie Dornan.
Jamie Doran
Doran at the 34th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards
Doran at the 34th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards
BornGlasgow, Scotland[1]
OccupationDocumentary maker, writer
NationalityScottish-Irish
GenreCurrent affairs, conflict, human rights
SubjectWarfare, human rights, sport, science fiction culture, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, Chile, Romania
Notable awards2017 New York Film Festival awards[2]

EMMY Awards[3][4]
Peabody Award[5]
duPont Colombia Awards [6]

Amnesty International UK Media Award
SpouseTracey Doran-Carter
Website
www.clover-films.com

Jamie Doran is an Irish-Scottish independent documentary filmmaker and former BBC producer.[7] He founded the award-winning company Clover Films, based in Windsor, in 2008.[8] He is also president of Datchet Village Football Club, which he founded in 1986.[9] Doran's films have been shown worldwide, and on series such as BBC's Panorama,[10] Channel 4's Dispatches,[11] Channel 4's True Stories,[12] PBS's Frontline,[13] Al Jazeera,[14] ABC's Four Corners,[15] Japan's NHK, Germany's ZDF[16] NDR/ARD and Denmark's DR.

Many of Doran's documentaries cover the lives of people caught up war zones around the world.[17] 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.[8] In 2016, his film ISIS in Afghanistan won two Emmy awards in the outstanding continuing coverage of a news story in a news magazine, and the best report in a news magazine categories,[18] as well as a Peabody award[19] and three awards at the New York Film Festival.

In 2014, his film Pakistan's Hidden Shame exposed the sexual abuse of street boys in Peshawar. The film won the grand jury award for best documentary at the United Nations Association Film Festival[20] and received high commendation from the Association for International Broadcasting.[21] 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,[1] and the duPont–Columbia award.[8] In 2010, his film The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan revealed the widespread and systematic child sex abuse by former Northern Alliance commanders.[22][23]


  1. ^ a b "Glasgow film-maker's double Emmy success". Evening Times. 9 October 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  2. ^ "New York Festivals - 2017 World's Best Television & Films™ Winners". Archived from the original on 2 August 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  3. ^ emmyonline.com/news_37th_winners
  4. ^ "Winners Announced for the 34th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards | the Emmy Awards - the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences". Archived from the original on 31 March 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  5. ^ "ISIS in Afghanistan". Peabody Awards. 2015.
  6. ^ "Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism". Dupontawards.org.
  7. ^ Hali, S. M. (2006-03-28). "Afghan Blues!" Archived 12 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, The Nation
  8. ^ a b c "The need for upfront funding has never been greater". Broadcast. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  9. ^ "Sponsoring Datchet Football Club". Oakwood Estates. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  10. ^ "BBC One - Panorama, Inside the Taliban".
  11. ^ "BAFTA Awards Search | BAFTA Awards".
  12. ^ "Pakistan's Hidden Shame - Channel 4". www.channel4.com. Archived from the original on 28 August 2014.
  13. ^ "The Battle for Syria". PBS.
  14. ^ "Sudan: The break-up | Egypt | al Jazeera".
  15. ^ "Interview with Bob Carr". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 8 October 2012.
  16. ^ "Kampf um Aleppo - ZDF.de". www.zdf.de. Archived from the original on 18 April 2013.
  17. ^ "18 Essential Documentaries on Afghanistan, the Taliban and America's Longest War". FRONTLINE.
  18. ^ "'Frontline,' '60 Minutes' Dominate News and Documentary Emmy Awards (FULL LIST)". 22 September 2016.
  19. ^ "ISIS in Afghanistan".
  20. ^ "UNAFF 2014: Awards".
  21. ^ "The 10th Annual AIB Awards cover the globe | AIB".
  22. ^ "The taboo topic our mission in Afghanistan ignores". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. 6 September 2012.
  23. ^ "Afghanistan includes 'Bacha Baazi' sexual abuse of children in revised penal code". The Khaama Press News Agency. 20 July 2017.