DATE: 21 NOVEMBER 2024 / TIME: 19.00 - 21.00 / LOCATION:
Ritzy Brixton SW2 1JG
Dom is the founder of international production company Hide&Seek Media.
Since founding Hide&Seek Dom has directed and produced documentary projects in Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and Australia.
Humanitarian crises, conflict zones, public health and societal issues are recurring themes that thread through his films. His work has led to extensive research in the areas of addiction, drug policy and mental health; areas that he is considered to now be a leading journalistic voice.
His latest title, Ten Dollar Death Trip: Inside The Fentanyl Crisis is currently available on Netflix and his 2020 his Australian film, Half A Million Steps, triggered a AUD $305 million dollar funding pledge into treatment and harm reduction by the New South Wales government.
Dom is currently directly a film which looks at mental health and PTSD in the emergency services, a film about Scotland’s alarmingly high rate of overdose deaths and a UK film following London’s biggest NHS Trust throughout Covid-19.
We will be talking to Dom about the route Hide&Seek has taken since its inception, emotional attachment to subjects and contributors when making documentaries and how the definition of success as a filmmaker isn’t as straight forward as many would have you believe.