Jamie Doran

Doran at the 34th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards Jamie Doran is an Irish-Scottish independent documentary filmmaker and former BBC producer. He founded the award-winning company Clover Films, based in Windsor, 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 ''Panorama'', Channel 4's ''Dispatches'', Channel 4's ''True Stories'', PBS's ''Frontline'', Al Jazeera, ABC's ''Four Corners'', Japan's NHK, Germany's ZDF 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 Emmy awards 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 Peabody award 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 and received high commendation from the Association for International Broadcasting. 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'' revealed the widespread and systematic child sex abuse by former Northern Alliance commanders.

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