Our partner outfit Ecostorm has been undercover with Channel 4 News investigating conditions for some those picking and packing supermarket fruit at a major facility in Kent. What we found was shocking and has provoked an immediate outcry. Our undercover reporter experienced first hand the highly-pressured environment at the Mansfields packhouse at Chartham, with managers […]
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One World media award from Bruce Lee “sewers” film
Bruce Lee, King of the Sewers, produced by Ecologist Film Unit’s co-director Jim Wickens for Channel 4 News, has won best short film at the 2015 One World Media awards. It follows previous awards for the film including a Royal Television Society prize and an Amnesty award. More info: http://oneworldmedia.org.uk/2015-winners
What’s the real cost of our salad?
An army of modern-day “slaves” are being used to grow the salad and winter vegetables that fill Britain’s supermarket shelves, a major new investigation by Ecostorm / Ecologist Film Unit and Channel 4 News has revealed. The allegations are made by politicians and workers interviewed in Spain who say migrants employed to pick salad for […]
Two awards for Bruce Lee, King of the Sewers film
The major 2014 news film produced by the EFU’s Jim Wickens for Channel 4 News – Bruce Lee, King of the Sewers – has won two major media awards – an Amnesty media prize in the TV news category and a Foreign Press Association award for TV news story of the year. Read the original […]
Beneath the streets of Romania’s capital, a living hell
Jim Wickens reports for Channel 4 News We are in the heart of Bucharest in the pouring rain, staring down at a man hole on the pavement and a rickety ladder bolted into the shadows within. It seems like yesterday that the world woke to the shocking scenes of neglect and cruelty inside Romania’s orphanages […]
Fear, football and torture – undercover in Transnistria
It sounds like a distant planet in a dystopian sci-fi movie, and the place itself does not disappoint. For the second of our special reports with Channel 4 News the Ecologist’s Jim Wickens & Channel 4’s Paul Mason went undercover inside the next potential flashpoint between Russia and the west Welcome to Transnistria, a tiny strip […]
Peasants’ revolt – Romania at war with itself over fracking
Fracking has sparked protests in Britain, but these look subdued compared with a campaign in Romania by peasant farmers, who are fighting their own government. In the first of our new collaborations with Channel 4 News Jim Wickens and Paraic O’Brien report They are the unlikeliest of eco-protesters, a lifetime of hardship engraved on their faces. […]
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