Filming in Donbas - Winter 2022
Jack Losh is a documentary filmmaker and journalist whose work spans conflict, crime and the environment. With over a decade of experience covering wars and humanitarian issues across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, he is committed to showing the human heart of the world’s most turbulent places. He has been shortlisted at the Royal Television Society Awards, the British Journalism Awards, and for Europe’s top war-reporting prize, the Prix Bayeux, among others.
He has made documentaries for the BBC, Netflix, Channel 4, Al Jazeera, VICE News and The Guardian, which have been showcased at film festivals globally, including Tribeca. During assignments covering major international events, Jack has spoken live from the field on BBC News, Sky News and Al Jazeera.
His photos and written features have been published by The New York Times, GQ, National Geographic, The Guardian, The Washington Post and other leading outlets.
In the field
On patrol with wildlife rangers in the Central Africa Republic
After war broke out in eastern Ukraine, Jack went there to cover the conflict as a freelancer in 2015, renting a room in Russian-occupied Donetsk and reporting on the battlefront and humanitarian crisis on both sides of the line. Since then, his work has taken him to complex hostile environments around the world. Assignments have included filming bomb-disposal teams in Iraq and the Caucasus, travelling with the Kurdistan football team during the world cup for unrecognised states, and documenting the life-saving work of doctors in rebel-held areas of the Central African Republic.
Elsewhere he has joined wildlife rangers on counter-poaching operations, reported from besieged refugee camps, tracked down the last surviving veterans of Britain’s WWII African army, and lived with indigenous hunter-gatherers in remote rainforest. His work aims to draw attention to vulnerable, marginalised groups and showcase their resilience against poverty and persecution. More recently, he has returned to Ukraine to cover Russia’s full-scale invasion across the southern, eastern and northern battlefields, embedding with special forces, front-line firemen and civilians under bombardment — and telling their stories in partnership with global media outlets.
Jack graduated from the University of Bristol with a first-class honours degree in English Literature and later worked in London as a staff journalist with the national press before going freelance and eventually turning to documentary filmmaking. He was the recipient of a Pulitzer Center grant to cover the civil war in the Central African Republic and has worked as a consultant for a Foreign Office initiative on the media’s reporting of conflict-related sexual violence. He has had numerous journalistic embeds in high-risk areas with leading NGOs and UN agencies — including UNHCR, MSF, Rainforest Foundation UK, UNICEF, Halo Trust, WFP, African Parks and War Child.
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AWARDS & SCREENINGS:
Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents
Shortlisted: Grand Format Television (Channel 4 News, Ukraine’s Frontline Rescuers) and Written Press (Telegraph Magazine).
Shortlisted: Written Press (Foreign Policy feature about a Ukrainian family living in the east on the eve of the full-scale invasion).
Print trophy, 3rd place (Foreign Policy feature about wildlife rangers in a rebel-held area of the Central African Republic).
RTS Television Journalism Awards Nominated: Short Film category (Guardian Documentaries, Desert Fire).
British Journalism Awards
Shortlisted: Foreign Affairs (BBC Newsnight, Ukraine’s Siege Runners)
Shortlisted: Photojournalism (Nagorno-Karabakh war)
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant to cover the Central African Republic civil war.
Tribeca Film Festival Official Selection - War Games (producer).
Amnesty Media Awards
Finalist: Broadcast (Channel 4 News, Ukraine’s Frontline Rescuers)
Shortlisted: Photojournalism (Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine)
Shortlisted: Written News and Photojournalism (Nagorno-Karabakh war)
Shortlisted: Photojournalism (WWII African soldiers who fought for Britain)
Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism (Thomson Reuters Foundation) Finalist: Freelance category.
Frontline Club Awards Shortlisted: Print (Vice News feature about the Russian occupation’s media clampdown in eastern Ukraine)
One World Media Awards Longlisted: News Award (Ukraine, Channel 4 News). Shortlisted: New Voice, Print and Short Film categories.
Fetisov Journalism Awards Shortlisted: Conflict category - GQ and Telegraph Magazine (Ukraine). Shortlisted: Environmental Journalism - Foreign Policy (Uganda).
True Story Award Shortlisted - Telegraph Magazine, Ukraine.
Belfast Photo Festival Shortlisted: ‘A War Refrozen’, Nagorno-Karabakh.
Bradt Travel Writing Awards Shortlisted and published in Bradt’s ‘Travel Write’ anthology.
Documentary Family Awards Winner: ‘Faith & Religion’ category - Nagorno-Karabakh.
