GEORGE Journalist and Filmmaker Producer and editor of radio and television news and docu- SOUTH mentaries, with a decade of experience on the BBC’s leading news and current a airs programmes. [email protected] +65-9019-3145

TECHNICAL SKILLS EXPERIENCE

Expertise in many elements of the Producer Newsnight is the BBC's flagship daily news and production workflow, including Newsnight current affairs programme, specialising in analysis, lighting, camera, audio, editing, BBC Two film reports and robust interviews. I returned there at VFX, grading and VR production. I 2017 own and operate a Panasonic the start of 2017 (having produced the programme in GH4, Tascam and Marantz audio 2012-13) until I moved to Singapore in October. recorders, microphones, Gekko Responsibilities as below; in addition I regularly LED lighting, jib crane and output-edited Newsnight's World edition (which stabilisers, Vuze 3D 360 camera broadcasts globally on BBC World News) and and HTC Vive. I'm also experi- managed social media on the programme's Twitter, enced with Canon XF205, C100, Facebook and YouTube accounts. I worked exten- 5D MkII and Sony FS5 cameras, sively on the programme's news coverage of the among others. Grenfell Tower fire disaster, which won a Royal Software skills include Adobe Television Society Award. Premiere Pro, After Eects, Photoshop, Audition, InDesign, Series Helped launch What the Papers Say as a Radio 4 Mocha VR, Avid, Jupiter, DaVinci programme in 2010, then went on to edit over 100 Resolve, FCP, Zbrush, Blender, Producer Substance Designer & Painter, episodes. I returned as the joint series producer in What the RealityCapture, Meshlab, Wrap3, 2013, alongside producing other Radio 4 Papers Say Xnormal, DxO Photolab, Marmoset programmes (see below). This involved booking then BBC Radio 4 Toolbag, Humaneyes Studio, Final collaborating with a leading political journalist (from 2010-2016 Draft and Unity. I can code in publications such as The Guardian, Daily Mail, FT and Python, C# and Java. I trained Economist) to humorously deconstruct the week's people in ENPS and other news journalism and commentary. production software at the BBC. I wrote and developed the script with each week’s I’ve completed BBC Academy training, including hostile environ- presenter, then recorded and edited the programme, ment, legal and editorial courses. producing and directing an ensemble of eight actors from the BBC Radio Drama Company.

Full clean driving licence.

EDUCATION Producer Responsible for generating ideas, stories and treat- ments, then producing sequences, setups, packages, Newsnight films and interviews, on topics from the Higgs boson BBC Two to patent reform. Clips available on my website University College, Oxford 2012-2013 1997-2002 georgesouth.co.uk Physics and Philosophy (2:1) 1st Year PPE (Distinction) I produced countless interviews in the studio and on location with subjects ranging from the CEO of Notre Dame High School, Microsoft to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Jeremy Sheeld, 1990-1996 Paxman’s interview with Economic Secretary to the A-Levels in Physics, Maths, Further Maths, British Government and Treasury Chloe Smith, which I produced, briefed and Politics, Economics and General role-played, was described by the Mirror as "one of Studies (all grade A) the most excruciating interviews to have ever been broadcast" and by the Daily Mail as "carnage... perhaps the most humiliating political interview ever".

Newsnight was named the 2012 Royal Television Society News Programme of the Year. georgesouth.co.uk Page 1 of 2 Producer / Produced, edited and deputy-edited thousands of episodes of BBC Radio 4’s The World at One, The World this Weekend, PM, iPM, Broadcasting House and various one-o Editor documentaries. I’ve also produced The Today Programme, The World Tonight and Newshour R4 News (on the World Service). Combined weekly audience of over 8 million listeners. Programmes BBC Radio 4 As duty editor I determined the programme's content while managing a team of up to a 2006-2012 dozen producers, reporters, researchers, studio directors and presenters. I also regularly 2013 -2016 produced, studio-directed and deputy-edited these programmes.

The programmes I have worked on have won multiple accolades including Best News & Current A airs Programme Gold at the Sony Radio Academy Awards. I secured the first BBC interviews with British-Kurdish fighters in Syria during the siege of Kobani in 2014, and was one of the first journalists to interview Julian Assange of Wikileaks in 2007.

I’ve field-produced around the UK and the world with many di erent presenters and reporters, from Bridget Kendall to Brian Hanrahan to Clare Balding. Recently I devised and produced a Radio 4 The World this Weekend special from Turkey with presenter Mark Mardell. In five days, from a standing start, we made a half-hour Radio 4 documentary speaking to Syrian refugees in the unocial camps, tracing the people-smugglers who arrange the lethal crossings of the Aegean Sea, and visiting the home of a family who lost 13 members when their ship sank on the voyage to Europe. I also took photos and made an audio slideshow of the piece. (Full piece available on georgesouth.co.uk)

I produced a week of radio packages from Athens over the Greek elections, and a month-long series of extended reports from around the UK ahead of the 2015 General Election. I've produced long-form documentaries for Radio 4 and the World Service.

Responsible for popular slots on the PM programme including the PM Privacy Commission and Upshares Downshares, a regular series charting the financial crisis.

I was the ‘Blog Tsar’ for PM , managing social media for the programme -- which won Gold in the Interactive Programme category at the Sony Radio Academy Awards. And I was one of the small team who devised and launched iPM , an interactive Radio 4 programme presented by Eddie Mair which I subsequently produced and output-edited, also regularly blogging as an online face of the programme.

PROJECTS & INTERESTS

Currently interested in developing VR projects combining volumetric video capture (holography), photogram- metry and stereoscopic 360 video. I helped install a VR exhibition at the ArtScience Museum and I'm working on an experimental project with local researchers documenting Singapore's Hawker Centres.

Developing a short documentary about deep learning and artificial intelligence. I've completed a number of online MOOCs including Stanford University’s online Machine Learning course, and I enjoy playing around with neural networks and datasets in my free time.

I've made narrative films and music videos under the name Pi Delta Pi (π∆π). Most recently I produced, edited, co-wrote and co-directed a 30-minute film Maniac Nerd (2017).

I’ve self-studied Mandarin Chinese for several years, and speak and read at an intermediate level.

I've documented (solo shoot-edits) art performances and exhibitions, including a gallery event at Frieze Art Fair and a John Cage performance at Café Oto, London.

Started a small comics publishing company (Typocrat Press) in 2005. Our graphic novel 676 Apparitions of Killo er was nominated for ‘Best Translated Work’ at the Angouleme International Comics Festival.

I co-organised the Creative Commons UK film competition "Mix & Mash" in 2007 in association with Google UK, the Arts Council England, Shooting People, OpenBusiness, the British Film Institute and the Telegraph.

Winner of the Financial Times/Cli ord Chance Young Business Writer of the Year award. georgesouth.co.uk Page 2 of 2