Candour Productions
Ali is the Joint Head of Production at Candour Productions, a female-led multi-award winning independent production company based in Leeds. Candour specialises in telling human stories with warmth, compassion and integrity. Between 2020 and 2026 Ali’s credits include:
Channel 4: Catching A Killer: Buried Truths
SKY: The Salt Path Scandal
BBC Panorama: The Pothole problem
Channel 4: The Disappearance of Jay Slater
Channel 4: Sycamore Gap
Channel 5: Cause of Death License to Kill
ITV: The British Blood Scandal - Poisoned at School.
Channel 4: Groomed A National Scandal
ITV: The Essex Millionaire Murders
Channel 4: Catching A Killer Stab in the Dark
BBC Panorama: The Truth About Smart Metres
BBC: Bradfords Big Bash
Channel 5: Cause of Death
Channel 4: The Push Murder on the Cliff
Channel 4: Britains Most Luxurious Train Journeys
Channel 4 Dispatches: Trapped Disabled & Abused
SKY: Libby Are You Home Yet?
Channel 4: 33 Families One bug Build
Discovery:Michael Sams: Kidnap Killer
BBC: Yorkshire Midwives on Call
Channel 4: Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Channel 4: Torn Apart Family Court Uncovered
Channel 4: Finding My Family
Channel 4 Dispatches: The Truth About Long Covid
Candour Productions Awards 2024 - 2025
Nominated BAFTA: The Push
Winner Grierson: Best Documentary Grooming Scandal.
Winner RTS: Production Company
Winner RTS Yorkshire Production Excellence:Cause of Death
Winners:Best Place to Work in TV
Winner RTS Yorkshire Series Libby, Are You Home Yet?
Winner:Grierson Best Documentary The Push
Winner BAFTA: Fact Series Libby, Are You Home
Winner Grierson: Best Doc Series for The Push
True North Productions, Leeds 2009 -2019
BBC ONE 10eps A1 Britains Longest Road
Channel 4 5eps A New Life in the Sun S1
Channel 4 10eps x1min Rambling Shorts
Channel 4 2eps The Last Leg Down Under
BBC ONE Britain's Bloodiest Battle
Channel 4 12eps Building the Dream S3
Channel 5 1hr D-Day's Sunken Secrets
Channel 4 12eps Building the Dream S3
Channel 5 eps D-Day's Sunken Secrets
Channel 4 11eps Building the Dream S2
BBC ONE 10eps Animal 24/7
UKTV 15 eps My Dream Derelict Home S3
Channel 4 9eps Building the Dream
BBC ONE 10eps Animal Frontline
SKY / C&I 6 Life Means Life Series 2
SKY / C&I 6 eps x1hr Life Means Life
BBC Panorama How Safe Is Your Hospital
BBC Panorama Life & Debt:A Greek Tragedy
BBC ONE 1 eps Forgotten Heroes
BBC ONE 5eps A Picture of Health
SKY / C&I 1 eps The Beast of Bermondsey
BBC ONE 10 eps To Build Or Not To Build
SKY / C&I Murder on the Social Network
SKY / C&I Married Single Dead
National Geographic 3 eps Britain’s Underworld
UKTV 6 eps What The Neighbours Did S1
BBC ONE 1ep Jon Venables
Quicksilver Media, Oxford 2009
BBC 2: How Porsche Made Billions
C4 Dispatches: CRASH How the Banks Won
C4 Dispatches: CRASH How the Banks went Bust!
C4 Dispatches: CRASH How Long Will It Last?
C4 Dispatches: Orphans of Burma's Cyclone.
Awards:
‘Orphans of Burma’s Cyclone’,
winner Rory Peck Features Award & The One World Award for Children's Rights.
‘Dispatches: Crash: How Long Will It Last?’
winner 2009 Wincott Award for best Current Affairs programme
Channel 4 Unreported World Series
I'm hugely proud of having worked on 40 Unreported World programmes filmed in some of the most challenging and remote locations in the world.
Series 16 (2008) Production Manager
Ep 1 South Africa: Body Parts for Sale
Ep 2 India: Gods Own Country
Ep 3 Abkhazia: Valley of the Lost
Ep 4 Paraguay’s Painful Harvest
Ep 5 Philippines: Lost in a Shadow War
Ep 6 Venezuela: Cult of Thugs
Ep 7 Thailand: Lessons of Terror
Ep 8 Yemen: Sea of Tears
Ep 9 Mexico: Seven Days of Hell
Ep 10 Nigeria: Child Brides, Stolen Lives
Series 15 (2008) Jr Production Manager
Ep 1 Egypt’s Rubbish People
Ep 2 USA: the Devils Highway
Ep 3 Nicaragua: Blood, Church and State
Ep 4 Russia: Railway of Bones
Ep 5 Bangladesh: The Drowning Country
Ep 6 Sudan: Meet the Janjaweed
Ep 7 Gaza: Reign of Terror
Ep 8 Benin: Voodoo Children
Ep 9 Brazil: The Amazon’s Golden Curse
Ep 10 Kenya’s Human Time Bomb
Series 14 (2007) Jr Production Manager
Ep 1 Jamaica: Guns Votes and Money
Ep 2 India’s Broken People
Ep 3 South Africa: Children of the Lost Generation
Ep 4 Guinea Bissau: Cocain Country
Ep 5 Honduras: The War on children
Ep 6 China’s Olympic Lie
Ep 7 Iraq: The Battle for Oil
Ep 8 Colombia: Cocaine City
Ep 9 Sri Lanka: Killing for Peace
Ep 10 Congo: Children of the Genocide
Series 13 (2007) Production Coordinator
Ep 1 Haiti: Showdown in Sun City
Ep 2 Zambia & Congo: China’s African Takeover
Ep 3 Ivory Coast: Blood & Chocolate
Ep 4 Bolivia: Anarchy in the Andes
Ep 5 Chongqing: Invisible City
Ep 6 Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s Reign of Terror
Ep 7 Kosovo: State of Denial
Ep 8 East Timor: Birth of a Nation
Ep 9 Isreal's Wild West.
Ep 10 Mongolia: Ninja Nation