Ian Oreilly

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT IAN OREILLY

Highly experienced, multi award-winning journalist / programme maker / documentary-maker. Commissioner, series editor, series producer, senior producer, director & cameraman. Experienced at commissioning, series editing and series producing international current affairs programmes - documentary, interview and discussion - for radio, television & digital outlets. I have an excellent track record of generating strong story ideas and translating them into compelling programmes / films. I also have a knack of spotting good submitted ideas and understanding the elements required to make them including identifying any potential safety issues involved. In post-production I am well practiced at structuring programmes – film, interview and discussion - and at writing scripts. I am very experienced at organising production teams for maximum work flow and efficiency. Also, I am a very experienced multi award-winning producer / director of long-form international news & current affairs programmes – documentary, interview and discussion - for radio, television & digital outlets. I am a skilled self-shooting producer / director / film maker. I am experienced at working alone, with a reporter and as part of a larger team. I am hostile environments trained and very experienced at working in such environments and at working undercover. For 20 years I worked very closely with the late, great Sue Lloyd-Roberts making films for the Newsnight and Our World programmes and, overlapping that, for ten years I also worked very closely with the brilliant Stephen Sackur producing location editions of HARDalk and around 30 editions of the programme\'s documentary strand, HARDtalk on the road. In addition, I have spent significant periods of time working with Zeinab Badawi, Martin Bell, Olenka Frenkiel and Lyse Doucet. I am also experienced at producing / directing location and simultaneous translation interviews and at producing location discussion programmes. Whether single handily or leading a team - I am skilled and experienced at taking projects from idea through to broadcast - for radio, television & digital outlets. REFERENCES: Stephen Sackur Presenter, BBC HARDtalk / GMT s••••••••@bbc.co.uk Mary Wilkinson Commissioning Editor, BBC World News Channel m••••••••@bbc.com Liz Gibbons Head, BBC World Service Documentaries & Investigations Unit l••••••••@bbc.co.uk Zeinab Badawi Presenter, BBC HARDtalk / Global Questions z•••••@kushcom.co.uk Mark Perrow former Editor, BBC Our World m••••••••@mac.com Richard Downes Editor, RTÉ Prime Time r••••••••@rte.ie