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Zoe Flood

(She/Her)

Documentary filmmaker and journalist

London, England GB

Available for Freelance

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About

Zoe is an independent documentary filmmaker and journalist. Based out of Kenya for much of the past decade, she has been part of the team of two Bafta-winning documentaries and has reported for a wide range of international media, including the BBC, the Guardian, Al Jazeera and the Washington Post. In 2021, she was both Edit Producer and Archive Producer on ‘9/11: Inside the President’s War Room’, the landmark BBC/AppleTV+ feature documentary to mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks. The film has won multiple awards, including the Bafta for Editing, and was also nominated in the Best Documentary category, as well as the Editing category at the Emmys. She is also Executive Producer and Co-Producer of the ground-breaking Zimbabwean feature film 'Cook Off', streaming on Netflix since 2020, and was AP on the BAFTA-winning team that made 'My Son the Jihadi', named Best Single Documentary in 2016. Through her work across print, broadcast and digital, she has covered breaking news events such as the overthrow of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and the Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya. She also produces long-form investigations, such as 'Gamblers Like Me', which she shot and directed for BBC Africa Eye and which was shortlisted for best documentary in the 2020 British Sports Journalism Awards. As a long-form writer, she was recently recognised by the Association of British Science Writers, winning Feature of the Year for her profile of the team in Botswana that first sequenced the Omicron variant.

Featured Work

Gamblers Like Me: The Dark Side of Sports Betting

Sports Betting has exploded across Africa. But are the betting companies playing it straight? Do the punters really understand the odds they’re up against? And who is getting rich from the thrill of the beautiful game? BBC Africa Eye follows one young football fan on a journey across Uganda, to find out what happens when global companies target some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the continent. Collins Muhinda has been betting on football since he was a kid – but on this journey, he discovers an industry that can have a devastating impact on the lives of young Africans, and an epidemic of compulsive gambling that makes him question his own betting habits.

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