Background Information

An accomplished fixer with over 12 years experience across a range of genres – adventure, travel,cookery, history and current affairs. I earned my stripes in the travel industry as a tour leader, organizing a myriad of classic and adventure trips to all corners of Vietnam for Hanoi’s top tour operators from 1999 to 2008. In 2006,after emerging from countless excursions and accruing an extensive knowledge of the country and network of crucial contacts I began to assist foreign production crews and pioneered their first-ever episodes set in Vietnam – such as Top Gear’s Vietnam Special and Bear Gryll’s Man V Wild. I successfully organize and set up shoots in national parks, jungles, remote hill tribes, historical & heritage areas, the Mekong River and delta, caves, sea-faring excursions as well as all city locations. I source and research contributors and story locations; work with high profile presenters; organize all logistics from visa’s, filming permissions, transport – boats, 4X4 vehicle, helicopters and drones.

Credit History
NETFLIX

Jack Whitehall: Travels With My Father | Tiger Aspect | 2017

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BBC 1 UK & BBC WORLDWIDE

Without Limits | BBC Bristol | 2017

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RTE 1, IRELAND

Francis Brennan’s Grand Tour of Vietnam | Waddell Media | 2017

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CHANNEL NEWS ASIA

The Last Drop | Pacific TV Singapore | 2017

 

TRAVEL CHANNEL, US

Man Finds Food: Adam Richman | Sharp
Entertainment | 2016

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TRAVEL CHANNEL, US

Dual Survivor | 2016

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TRAVEL CHANNEL, US

Trip Flip | Travel Channel | 2016

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COMMERCIAL, US

Castrol Bikers Vietnam | 2015
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TV NEDERLAND

The World’s Dangerous Roads | BNN | 2015

BBC

A Place to call home | Below The Rador.TV | BBC1 Northern Ireland |2015
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COMMERCIAL, US

Hip-hop | VICE Media I 2015

COMMERCIAL, ASIA

Visa card | click2view.asia | Singapore | 2015
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TRAVEL CHANEL, US

Trip Flip | High Noon Entertainment | 2015
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CHANNEL 9, AUSTRALIA

The Embassy | Nine Network, Australia | 2015
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SERVUSTV, AUSTRIA

Hubertusjagd | Interspot Film GmbH | 2015
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ABC, AUSTRALIA

Are you my Mother? | Foreign Correspondent Australia | 2015
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FOOD NETWORK, UK

Follow Donal to Vietnam | Athena Film UK | 2014
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FOOD NETWORK, UK

Reza Spice Prince Vietnam | Athena Film UK | 2014
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QUEBEC TV, CANADA

Bruno Holiday | Must Media INC | 2014
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ANIMAL PLANET

The Wildest Indochina Animals  | Off The Fence UK | 2013
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BBC 2, UK

The Mekong River with Sue Perkins | Indus Films | 2013
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NATGEO

I Should Not Go In There | In Focus Asia, Singapore | 2013
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BBC WORLD NEWS

BBC Click | BBC | 2013
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COMMERCIAL, US

Phillip Leds; Dragon Bridge | Two Four US | 2013
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ANIMAL PLANET

Finding Bigfoot: Vietnam | Ping Pong Productions, US | 2012
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SURIA SINGAPORE

Jalan 5: Vietnam | Oak 3 Films, | 2012
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TRAVEL CHANNEL, US

Gem Hunt: Vietnam | NHNZ, US | 2012
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CHANNEL 4, UK

Gordon Ramsey’s Great Escape: Vietnam | Optomen Television | 2011
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ABC, AUSTRALIA

All the Way with LBJ | November Films | 2011

BBC WORLD NEWS

Third Eye: Vietnam | BBC | 2011
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DUTCH TV TRAVEL

3 Op Reis: Vietnam | BNN Netherlands | 2011
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FUEL TV, US

Strangers in Danger: Vietnam | Mandt Bros | 2011
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SYFY, US

Destination Truth: Vietnam’s Bigfoot | Ping Pong Productions| 2011
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TLC, US

The Man with the 200lb Tumor | Morningstar Entertainment | 2011
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COMMERCIAL, US

Capgemini Project | Napoleon Creative | 2011

COMMERCIAL, US

DuPont mini-documentary “Salt of the Earth” | Two Four, US | 2011
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TRAVEL CHANNEL, US

Samantha Brown’s Asia: Vietnam | Optomen Productions | 2010
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CHANNEL 4, DISCOVERY

Bear Grylls, Man vs. Wild: Vietnam | Diverse Productions | 2009
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BBC

Top Gear Vietnam Special | BBC  | 2008
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education
Hanoi Open University
BA Bachelor of Tourism Management (distinction) 1997 – 2002
Special training
Sustainable Tourism Training course, conducted Hanoi Open University, World University of Canada and Canadian Embassy
Special training
The first Aid course at SOS Hanoi
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