Skip to main content

Tim Lewis

England

Working as a producer, sound recordist, video editor, photographer and writer, Tim Lewis produces documentary films for a wide range of international charities and government agencies. Tim’s experience also includes broadcast and corporate pieces, ranging from glossy arts and celebrity portraits to feature length documentaries. His work has taken him to many difficult, challenging and diverse locations. Filming indigenous communities in the rainforests of Indonesia, Brazil, Central America and Africa; interviewing refugees on the Thai-Burma border, survivors in the debris of Tacloban in the Philippines, following civil rights campaigners through war torn Liberia and the Congo, climbing volcanoes and glaciers in Iceland or filming in the cockpit of Concorde. He is a co-director of Handcrafted Films Ltd.

Awards:
2008 International Wildlife Film Awards ‘5×5: Voices of change from the forests of Indonesia’.
Best Cultural Message, Best Film for a government agency, Merit Award for Sound Design.
2008 Rushes Soho Shorts Documentary Festival, shortlisted semi-finals.
2010 Official Selection, Vimeo Film Festival. ‘Freedom in your Hands’.
2012 Semi Finalist, Focus Forward Film Festival, ‘Grease Lighting’.
2012 Winner, New York Short Film Festival, ‘Why don’t we do it in the Road’

Related Films

  • Mapping Riverine Communities Community maps crucial in the fight for land rights

    The community of Lago do Mainá have lived with the forest and the river, nature for them is the most fundamental thing they have. However a military training base and increasing incursions by soldiers created tension between the community and the army. Through the use of social mapping the people of Lago do Mainá have […]

    BrazilLand RightsParticipatory-made film
  • Pygmy Peoples of the DRC: A Rising Movement The fight for recognition in the DRC

    Marginalised for decades, Pygmy peoples are fighting for recognition and land rights. Even the term ‘pygmy’ is laced with historical racism and prejudice, they are not treated as equal citizens in their home country. At the heart of pygmy culture is their forest, central to their spiritual beliefs, and ancestral heritage it is also their source […]

    CultureDemocratic Republic of CongoParticipatory-made film
  • Hope Indigenous climate change solutions

    The indigenous people of Sungai Utik, a Dayak Iban community in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, have maintained a strong traditional connection to their forests despite continuous pressure from logging and palm oil companies intent on taking their land. Their forests remain intact and their traditional values are keeping their community together. If we want to keep […]

    Climate Changeeducational packsIndigenous Solutions
  • Brazil's Warrior Women Women’s movement for access to Babassu oil

    The humble babassu palm provides a livelihood for communities of women across North Eastern Brazil. Bread, charcoal, oil and soap are produced from the nut and husk; the surplus is sold on. But production has not always been so peaceful. Babassu: Brazil’s Warrior Women tells the story of the hard battle to maintain these communities’ […]

    ActivismBrazileducational packs
  • Sanctuary Illegal logging and human rights abuses

    Across the Democratic Republic of Congo foreign owned logging companies are causing widespread destruction of one of the most valuable remaining tropical forests in the world. Often local communities are ignored as their forests are cut around them. In a country largely lawless the use of violence is endemic. By using the military and the […]

    Democratic Republic of CongoFighting Big CorporationsHuman Rights Abuses