Hazel Chandler  MBE/MA   hazel.chandler@btinternet.com

CEO and Producer/director

Hazel started her fimmaking career making music videos and shorts for NGOs like Amnesty International. She started Wilderness Productions in 2005 and now has over 30 years experience in documentary and current affairs filmmaking and has made award winning films all over the world for BBC, Discovery, Channel 4 and Aljazeera. In 2008 Hazel co-founded and is director of  'WAYout' in Sierra Leone, a charity offering free training and facilties in media and the arts to street youth. She was awarded an MBE for this work. She now spends half the year in Freetown. Many WAYout films have been shown in international Film Festivals. The testimonies she recorded of Ebola victims were shown all over the world and were the first to give voice to the many brave Sierra Leoneans fighting the disease. 

Please send any proposals to Hazel.

Michael Chandler    

Michael is CEO of Groundswell having worked for 6 years for Cardboard Citizens. He is a writer-director. His short drama ‘The Fall’ had a successful international festival run and he has since completed two more short dramas 'Move' and 'AK', and the award-winning documentary ‘WAYOUT’ was screened around the world. Michael also works extensively in managing International charities and co-founded WAYout, an arts charity in Sierra Leone.

Michael ran animation and film projects with a group of homeless children for

 the charity Shelter, and directed bi-lingual dramas for Marie Stopes.

 Michael was previously a soundtrack producer and radio DJ,

Wilderness Productions Ltd

25 Newquay House

Sancroft Street

London SE11 5UN

UK

+447989414007

hazel@wildernessfilms.co.uk