Daniel Bogado
Eduardo Daniel Bogado (born 1979)[1] is a British - Paraguayan documentary producer and director, who has worked with Channel 4, including its series Dispatches. He has won several awards for his documentaries in Africa, highlighting problems with communities in several countries.
Career
[edit]In 2012, Bogado won the Rory Peck Sony Impact award for "Terror in Sudan",[2] a documentary describing human rights abuse in Sudan by the Government of Omar al-Bashir. The documentary showed Bogado and reporter Aidan Hartley watching a series of Antonov military aircraft circling the area of the Nuba Mountains where filming took place.[3] As well as the Rory Peck award, it also received a nomination at the following year's Royal Television Society Independent Spirit awards.[4]
In 2014, Bogado filmed "Nigeria's Hidden War" for Channel 4's Dispatches series, showing unwarranted violence by the Nigerian government towards civilians as part of its struggle against the extremist group Boko Haram.[5] The documentary was nominated for the Foreign Press Associated Feature Award and the following year it won Broadcast Best Current Affairs Programme. A US version of the documentary was made for PBS Frontline and won an Emmy Award for Best Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine.[6]
In 2014, he produced and directed "15 and Learning to Speak", a story about a deaf teenager in Uganda who is taught sign language for the first time in his life.[7] Bogado chose to film in the country because he had heard there was significant stigma there about deaf children and decided it would be a wonderful idea to film a deaf child learning to communicate. His visit was well received by local children.[8] A five-minute clip from the film was broadcast on the social media sites YouTube and Facebook, quickly gaining widespread support, with favourable comments on Twitter.[9]
More recently, Bogado series directed Netflix's new seven-part Brazilian true-crime series on Wallace Souza, called "Killer Ratings" (Bandidos Na TV).[10] Bogado said, “What I thought I knew about Wallace Souza when I set out, turned out only to be the starting point of this extraordinary story. When I looked deeper, I saw the events that followed were full of the most jaw-dropping turns, twists and shocks which would be deemed too outlandish in a Hollywood script.”
In 2021, Bogado directed 9/11: One Day in America, a documentary series for National Geographic revolving around the 9/11 terrorist attacks.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Eduardo Daniel Bogado". Endole. Archived from the original on 25 November 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ "Channel 4's journalism recognised at Rory Peck Awards". Channel 4. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ Slater, Emma (13 April 2012). "Terror in Sudan: Bashir's second genocide". Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ "Ganó el Emmy, un periodista inglés, de origen paraguayo". La Nación (in Spanish). 28 October 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ "Nigeria's Hidden War: Channel 4 Dispatches". Channel 4. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ "Emmy Win for Nigeria's Hidden War". Edward Watts Films. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ "Unreported World : 15 and Learning to Speak". Radio Times. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ "Why SignHealth Uganda? We Ask Unreported World Producer Daniel Bogado". SignHealth. 21 November 2014.
- ^ "15 and Learning to Speak: Twitter Q&A". SBS International. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ "Netflix Explores 'Killer Ratings'; Doc Series to Explore Strange Case of Brazilian TV Host Who Allegedly Tried to Boost Ratings by Ordering Murders". 7 May 2019.
- ^ Nakamura, Reid (21 May 2020). "Nat Geo Unveils Slate for 2020-21 Including '9/11' Docuseries, 'Explorer' Reboot". TheWrap. Retrieved 12 June 2021.