MEDIADANTE
Mediadante is a multi award-winning independent production company making stories about hard to access subjects, people and places for a global audience.
We were founded in Qatar in 2011 and specialise in the Middle East and North Africa but are now making films all around the world with a business base in London.
Our network of award-winning film makers based across the region have the understanding, experience and creativity needed to make documentaries, news, digital projects and innovative content about complex societies in hard to reach areas.
Rosie Garthwaite
As an Exec Producer at BBC World Service’s Investigations Unit. Rosie is currently based in London making docs and interactives, mainly about the Middle East and North Africa. She founded Mediadante, producing the Emmy-nominated, The Workers Cup, that premiered on the opening night of Sundance 2017. In 2023 she exec produced Under Poisoned Skies that helped secure a pledge to reduce gas flaring emissions from the Iraqi government and won the RTS for best international documentary of the year. The International Emmy-award winning film Escape from Isis / Escaping ISIS she developed was referenced by the UK Prime Minister in a key speech and shown to the U.S. Congress. In 2014 she Exec produced a CINE Golden Eagle award-winning series following the first Saudi woman up Everest. She is a former British army officer and author of the award-winning book How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone published by Bloomsbury in 2011
Ramzy Haddad
Ramzy is a documentary producer and director. After graduating from university in Montreal, Canada and
making a start as a Production Assistant on fiction films there, he returned to the boom town of his youth Doha,
Qatar and shadowed the director of the first feature creative documentary shot in the country Linda and Ali: Two Worlds Within Four Walls. In his role as Creative Producer on The Workers Cup, which premiered on the
opening night of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Ramzy successfully negotiated access to the labour camps and helped tell a nuanced story from the perspective of the migrant workers building the country. Ramzy has directed short TV documentaries for Al Jazeera English, BBC, CGTN and Quest Arabiya.
Adam Sobel
Adam Sobel is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and writer who has worked extensively in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, as well as in Chicago, which serves as his home base.
Adam is the director of The Workers Cup, Mediadante's feature-length documentary about a football tournament for migrant workers building the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The film premiered on Opening Night of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, has been distributed on TV and theatrically in more than 40 countries, and has been nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award as well as a Critics Choice award.
Recently, Adam has directed and produced documentaries with the Chicago Cubs, including an interactive documentary about baseball’s most beloved losers, and multiple short-form series. His work with the Cubs has received a Silver Clio and a Webby nomination.
Adam lived in Qatar for 5 years, creating news, documentary, and fiction that appeared on PBS, BBC, ITN, CNN, The Guardian, and HBO. In 2014, he directed On the Top, a documentary series which followed the first man from Qatar and first woman from Saudi Arabia to climb Mt. Everest.
Dennis Paul
Dennis Paul is the co-founder of REACT FILM, an educational nonprofit built upon the power of social issue documentary films. And also React Films (www.reacttofilm.com) producing compelling TV and film content, including “Slay the Dragon”. Dennis is the Co-Producer of 2021’s acclaimed HBO docuseries “100 Foot Wave,” and his React Films banner earned a Best Documentary Emmy for Discovery Network’s “The Story of Plastic.” Dennis was the Exec producer of feature documentary, The Workers Cup, which premiered at Sundance 2017. For a decade, Dennis has served as a Trustee of the Museum of the Moving Image, and has been engaged with numerous nonprofit organizations focused on the digital divide, educational opportunities for underserved youth, and the power of social issue documentaries to help engage youth.
Jane Dutton
Co-founder of Mediadante, Jane Dutton is an acclaimed news anchor. In the course of her twenty-year career, multi-faceted, hard-hitting journalist, Jane has worked for most major international news networks. During this time, she has anchored some of recent history’s largest events, hosted her own travel programme and achieved consistently high viewer ratings with her eponymous breakfast show. Jane is a gifted panel host and voice-over artist as well as being an expert on African, European and Middle Eastern affairs. She currently lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, with her twin nine-year old daughters and is passionate about fitness, sport and travel.
You can watch her show reel here: https://tinyurl.com/JaneDuttonAnchor
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