About Andrew Barron

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I was one of the first journalists’ to reach the Sudanese rebels fighting in southern </B><A HREF="id60_sudan.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Video Clips"><B>Sudan</B></A><B>, Africa in 1997. I worked in Kuwait during the Desert Thunder offensive ,  the fall of President Milosovich in Serbia and the Indonesian Revolution in 1998 when the dictator Suharto was deposed during   violent  riots in Jakarta.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I lived in Asia for 2 years, working as an executive producer at Right Angle Media in Singapore, 2001-2003, directing the Discovery Asia flagship '</B><A HREF="id60_soraida.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Video Clips"><B>Crossings</B></A><B>' series as well as local tv. On my return to the UK I was a director on the Ch4 prime time series of '</B><A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Place in the Sun"><B>A Place in the Sun</B></A><B>' with Amanda Lamb.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I also directed </B><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Temple of the Tigers"><B>The Temple of the Tigers</B></A><B> for Animal Planet, a film about 10 tame tigers living at a Buddhist monastery in Thailand,  winning the Finalist Award in the </B><B>New York Film & TV Festival 2004</B><B> for best wildlife documentary. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I co-presented two series of ‘</B><A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Unearthed Series 1"><B>Unearthed: Film School Wild</B></A><B>’</B><B> in 2006 and 2007 for Animal Planet, a challenge for  members of the public to become wildlife film makers in just 2 weeks.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2008 took me to India where as Head of Programmes,  I helped start up an Indian 24 hour channel </B><B>‘</B><A HREF="id74.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="TV Training"><B>News X</B></A><B>’ from scratch, hiring 250 indian staff and helping to design a brand new studio centre in an old fabric factory in Delhi . </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In 2009 I directed   the hugely popular ‘</B><A HREF="id60_sudan.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Video Clips"><B>Bear Grylls Man v Wild</B></A><B>’ for Discovery USA, putting the survivalist through his paces on the Anatolean Plateau as well as 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle where the episode, filming in temperatures of -26 degrees C,  was dubbed one of the toughest he’d done. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>For the past 2 years I have been a sitting as a judge for the annual  British Royal Television Society Awards (RTS).</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id67.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Director Gallery"><I><B><U>AB Gallery</U></B></I></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id68.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Andrew Barron Press"><I><B><U>AB Press Cuttings</U></B></I></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CV"><I><B><U>AB CV</U></B></I></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.barrontv.co.uk/voice_over.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.barrontv.co.uk/voice_over.htm"><I><B><U>AB Voice - Over / On Camera Clips</U></B></I></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B> <object width="400" height="302"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2493119&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2493119&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="302"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/2493119"></a><a href="http://vimeo.com/user666611"></a><a href="http://vimeo.com"></a>  </B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="9a922900.jpg" border=0 width="290" height="400" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#333333" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><I><B><U>CONTACT AB</U></B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>    via email at:</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>    andrew@barrontv.co.uk</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>    Voicemail:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>    +44 (0)7050 652 229</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>    Fax:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>    +44 (0)7050 652 191</B></I><I><B> <A NAME="sign_1_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>  </B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/barrontv" title="Andrew Barron" target="_TOP" style="font-family: "lucida grande",tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: #3B5998; text-decoration: none;">Andrew Barron</a><br/><a href="http://www.facebook.com/barrontv" title="Andrew Barron" target="_TOP"><img src="http://badge.facebook.com/badge/601127558.2321.1800812518.png" width="75" height="246" style="border: 0px;" /></a><br/><a href="http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/" title="Make your own badge!" target="_TOP" style="font-family: "lucida grande",tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: #3B5998; text-decoration: none;">Create Your Badge</a>  </B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>