Hossam S.
London, UK
$300 - $3000
My name is Hossam Sarhan. I am a video producer with experience on a multiple-award winning investigative documentary. I currently work at the BBC World Service and BBC Arabic where I have produced and animated stories on topics ranging from male sex abuse in Iraq to the struggle of transgender people in Kuwait, which have gained more than a million of views on the BBC different platforms. I have a keen interest in investigations on human rights issues affecting communities from the Middle East. In 2017, I was the UK executive producer for the multiple-award-winning investigation the End User. It revealed how weapons were being used in the war in Yemen had been supplied by the UK and the US, among others, in an apparent abuse of international laws and trade agreements. The investigation found a huge success, with around three million views. The main producer and investigator Mohamed Aboelgheit had won the Fetisov Journalism Award first prize in the category "Outstanding Contribution to Peace" In the year of 2019, and had won the golden medal from the United Nations Correspondents Associations as well. In 2015, I was one of the first people who helped in establishing the Arabic version of the lead platform AJ. I recruited top talent to help produce videos which received the most views on the Arabic platforms. All stories have more than more than 1 million views/each. In November 2015 I moved to London for a different challenge, I worked as a promo producer for a leading Arabic-Tv, I was the main script writer for the promos, I’ve written nearly a 1000 scripts and my promos got around 20 millions views around different platforms. Back in 2012, while still in Egypt, I created a political campaign in my country that led to the victory of the first civilian president in the Egyptian history. My campaign called “Squeeze a lemon”, which is similar to the famous English idiom “with a pinch of salt” The campaign found huge success and was widely popular. A lot of people had captured themselves squeezing a lemon over their head after voting. Due to its popularity, the civil candidate had won over the opposing candidate and gained 13 million votes. In relation to the campaign, a new political term had been formed “The lemon squeezers”, and the press and media named the 7 million votes that the candidate got in the second round of elections with this name, the name I created.
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Documentary DP
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Motion Graphics Designer
- Sound Designer
- Colorist
- Animator / Visual Effects Artist
- Senior Producer / Project Manager
- Post-Production Manager
- Portrait Photographer
- Line Producer / On-Location
- Sound Mixer
- Copywriter
- Field Producer