Sharron Ward

Sharron Ward is a London-based multi award-winning Documentary and freelance Director/Producer with credits for the BBC, MTV and VH1 amongst others. She has made short films for the BBC on Globalisation, Human Rights, and Eastern & Western politics and makes observational documentaries about social issues, human rights abuses & current affairs. Her most recent films are “Cannes in a Van”, an observational documentary about guerilla film promoters at the 60th Cannes Film Festival - which premiered at the Short Film Corner, Festival de Cannes 2008; and “Facing the Dragon”, an observed documentary on crack and heroin addicts detoxing in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand. Her debut feature length documentary is the multi-award winning “Addicted in Afghanistan” having won “Best European Documentary Feature” at the European Independent Film Festival, and “Best Director of Documentary” at the Asian First Film Festival,(amongst others). It is a collaboration with first time Afghan film-maker Jawed Taiman and has been in Official Selection at over 20 film festivals including the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (where it was selected for the First Appearance Competition), Sheffield Doc/Fest, Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, the prestigious Documentary Fortnight at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Documenta Madrid, Dokfest Munich, Milan, Norway & Reykavijk International Film Festivals. She was a Producer on the “100 Greatest Series” on music luminaries for VH1 Europe and Directed and Produced the cult NZ arts/entertainment show ‘The Drum.’ She also won the New Zealand AIDS Media Award for her World AIDS Day Public Service Ad in 1997. Sharron is also a self-shooter on HDV and an editor. Her next project is “Alex, Cancer & Me,” an observed documentary about her husband Alex, a lung cancer patient and his struggle to overcome his terminal disease on the NHS in the UK. She set up Katalyst Productions in London with the mission to “make films that matter.”