Kill Zone has won it’s third award!!! Best Current Affairs Programme at the 2025 Broadcast awards - up against some incredible competition! Well done to Vanessa Bowles, Jaber Badwan, and the entire team!!!

Congratulations to Vanessa Bowles and Jaber Badwan and the whole Kill Zone team for winning the 2024 British Journalism Foreign affairs award for Kill Zone: Inside Gaza

Congratulations to Vanessa Bowles and Jaber Badwan for winning the Impact Award at the 2024 Rory Pecks as well as the entire Kill Zone team!

Kill Zone: Inside Gaza has been nominated for Best Current Affairs Documentary at the 2024 Broadcast Awards! Well done to director Vanessa Bowles and the rest of the Kill Zone team!

We’re proud to announce that our film Kill Zone: Inside Gaza has been nominated for the Rory Peck Awards and the British Journalism Awards. Congratulations to the entire team but in particular to our wonderful director Vanessa Bowles and to the astounding DOP Jaber Badwan for the recognition of their work.

Jewan Al-Ashram, the six year old Gazan child who was injured in an airstrike in November 2023, and whose story was told in Kill Zone, spoke at the film's screening at DiG Festival in Modena

Filmed and Directed by Eddie Stafford

Executive Producer - Ben De Pear

Producer - Masood Khan

Editor - Gideon Gold

Two Basement Films productions are being shown back to back at WARM Festival in Sarejevo! Israel’s Reel Extremism and Kill Zone: Inside Gaza - Looking forward seeing you there!

Basement Film’s latest production Israeli Reel Extremism will be showing on ZETEO in July! You can watch the trailer for the film here

We’re proud to announce that Basement Films’ new film Death Without Mercy is premiering at Sheffield Documentary Festival on Saturday the 15th June - Look forward to seeing you there!

TUNE IN! Watch KILL ZONE: INSIDE GAZA (A Dispatches Special) Tonight on Channel 4 or stream on channel4.com

Basement Film’s Children of Ukraine is showing on PBS on April the 16th - Please tune in to watch!

TUNE in to watch Basement Films newest production The Hunt for Ukraine’s Stolen Children tonight on Channel 4 at 11pm or online at Channel4.com

Following the broadcast of Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings: Dispatches on September 5th, the Sri Lankan Government has announced an investigation into our claims and the UNHCR has recommended an international investigation into the attacks.

The film is available of to watch on demand here:

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/sri-lankas-easter-bombings-dispatches

Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings: Dispatches broadcast on September 5th 11.05pm Channel 4

“Startling and deeply disturbing viewing” **** The Guardian

The film is also available on demand here:

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/sri-lankas-easter-bombings-dispatches

Konan - Trapped in Trauma will be broadcast on Channel 4 on the 12th July!

Ben is proud to have been executive producer - helping the amazing director Tom Besley and the wonderful TOAD productions with their film.

Basement Films is extremely proud to report that our film Ukraine; Life Under Attack has won the Peabody! Congratulations to the whole team!

A 10 minute update to our first film, one year on from the initial filming in Kharkiv will be broadcast on Channel 4 on the 24th of February. Tune in! Also available to watch on 4oD

An updated version of Basement Film’s award winning Ukraine: Life Under Attack is to be broadcast on PBS on February 14th. Tune In!

Basement Films are proud to report that our film Ukraine: Life under Attack won the best Foreign Affairs Journalism Award at the British Journalism Awards! Congratulations to the whole team!