Experience

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  Media For Devlopment, Fair Knowledge, Artikal F...

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Media Consultant and Trainer

    • Jan 2006 - Dec 2013
    • London, United Kingdom

    As a media consultant and trainer for the above organisations, Rizwana was responsible for facilitating and running workshops on media and communication skills to marginalised communities in the UK and South Africa. She also worked for Haringey Council, CARA Housing Association and the South Afri...

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  Caravans

  • UK

  • Company Director

    • Sep 2001 - Jan 2006
    • UK

    Rizwana ran her own arts and crafts business promoting and selling work produced by women's cooperatives in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

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  BBC

  • United Kingdom
  • Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Producer/Director

    • Sep 1988 - Dec 2000

    Rizwana joined the BBC on a prestigious in house News Trainee Scheme and went on to work as a Producer/Director in News, Current Affairs, Documentaries, Religion, World Service and Multi-Cultural Programming. Rizwana has experience in all aspects of film-making from concept to completion. Over the years, she has produced high quality factual films and has worked on one off documentary strands, long running series and studio based specials. Some of the programmes she has worked on include 9 O'Clock News, Panorama, Newsnight, The Money Programme, Heart of the Matter, Airport, Hard Talk, News Hour, Focus on Africa, Network Africa.Her films and programmes have covered a vast array of subject matters including: the Economic Monetary Crisis in Europe, national Security, Civil Liberties, Islam, the historic fall of the Berlin Wall, glasnost and Perestroika in the Soviet Union, the Gulf war, wars in Angola and the Western Sahara, Apartheid in South Africa including its demise, democracy and the winds of change in Africa as well as the genocide in Rwanda. The following are just some examples:"Journey Into Darkness" BBC "Panorama". A film about the genocide in Rwanda. Royal television Society's International Current Affairs Award & Amnesty International's Best International television Documentary."Inside Injustice" - Channel Four - Free For All. The film investigated the death of a fourth black inmate at Broadmoor prison.The film was presented as evidence in an internal enquiry into patterns of practice in the psychiatric and criminal justice system."Skeletons in the Cupboard" - BBC "Heart of the Matter" - This film exposed the clash between British Museums and Australian Aborigines over human remains removed by British scientists for research in the 19th century. The film led to a change in policy by the Natural History Museum and the first ever human remain being returned for burial.A full filmography is available on request.

  • Freelance Reporter and Producer

    • Jul 1986 - Aug 1988

    Rizwana worked as a freelance reporter and producer for BBC World Service in the newsroom and on programmes like Newshour, Focus on Africa and Network Africa. Rizwana worked in London and in Africa during this period for the BBC. She covered the war in Western Sahara, Angola and went as an under cover reporter/producer in South Africa gathering stories on Apartheid and its impact on people's lives.

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  Independent Feature Films

  • Zimbabwe & South Africa

  • Producer, Production Manager, 1st Assistant Director

    • Jan 1994 - Dec 1998
    • Zimbabwe & South Africa

    During the late nineties, Rizwana lived in Zimbabwe and South Africa where she continued to work for the BBC on a freelance basis and work on independent low budget feature films. This entailed developing scripts, budgeting, raising finance and corporate sponsorships, negotiating co-productions, ...

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  Guardian, Caribbean Times,West Indian World, Th...

  • UK

  • Freelance Journalist

    • Sep 1980 - Sep 1988
    • UK

    Rizwana began her career in print journalism, freelancing for various newspapers, magazines and journals while still a student. She wrote on the arts, politics and economics, race relations, crime, immigration, deaths in custody, women's issues, development, poverty, wars of liberation in Nic...