Date: January 2011
Location: Alaska to Argentina
Distributor: BBC World News (January 2011) – 8 x 23 min.
Credits: directed, filmed, produced by Claudio von Planta
Additional cameramen: Paul Jackson, Kevin Augello, Jonathan Richards
Editors: Julia Frater, Paul Jackson, Robert Alexander, Jonathan Richards

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Date: January 2010
Location: Tanzania + Zambia
Distributor: BBC 4 UK (28 April 2010) – 52 min.
Credits: directed and filmed by Sean Langan
2nd cameraman - Claudio von Planta
Production Company – Renegade Pictures

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Date: September 2009
Location: Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan
Distributor: BBC, National Geographic etc. – 6×60 min.
Credits: directed and filmed by Claudio von Planta
Co-director and producer – Sam Simon
2nd cameraman – Robin Shek
Editors – Julia Frater, Paul Jackson, John Walker, Mike Clark-Hall, David Aitkinson
Production Company - Big Earth

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Date: February 2009
Location: Afghanistan
Distributor: Channel 4 UK (12 July 2009) – 46 min.
Credits: directed and filmed by Claudio von Planta

Co-director and 2nd cameraman - Jim Foster
Editor – Olivia Baldwin / Production Company – Darlow Smithons Productions

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Date: March 2008
Location: UK to Sierra Leone
Distributor: DVD
Credits: filmed, directed and partly edited by Claudio von Planta

Editors: Julia Frater and Sebastian Smith / Graphics: Jonathan Richards
Composers: Barrie Bignold and Miko Giedroyc

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Date: June 2007
Location: UK to South Africa
Distributor: BBC, National Geographic etc. – 8×45 min.
Credits: directed, filmed and partly edited by Claudio von Planta (on 3rd motorbike)

Producers Directors: David Alexanian + Russ Malkin
DOP with support crew 1: Jim Foster / DOP for the preparation + support crew 2: Jimmy Simak
Editors: Julia Frater, Paul Jackson
Official website: www.longwaydown.com

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Date: October 2006
Location: Sierra Leone, Congo DRC, USA
Distributor: CNN International (2+3 March 2007) – 52 min.
Credits: filmed and directed by Claudio von Planta

Presenter – Sorious Samura / Co-director, Executive Producer – Ron McCullagh Insight News TV
Producer – Elisabeth Jones / Editor – Richard Guard

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Date: August 2006
Location: Iraq
Distributor: Al-Jazeera International – 22 min.
Credits: filmed and directed by Claudio von Planta

Producer and Reporter: Karzan Sherabayani

This is a 22 min. report on the police in Kirkuk at the frontline of Iraq’s growing civil war.

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Date: February 2006
Location: Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Distributor: Sky One (22 May 2006) – 46 min.
Credits: filmed and directed by Claudio von Planta

Reporter and Producer – Sam Kiley / Co-Director and Producer - Jim Foster
Production Company – Carbon HQ

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Date: November 2005
Location: Afghanistan
Distributor: Sky One (15 May 2006) – 46 min.
Credits: directed and filmed by Claudio von Planta
Reporter and Producer – Sam Kiley / Co-Director and Producer - Jim Foster

Editor – Olivia Baldwin / Production Company – Carbon HQ

These are the first 12 minutes of a highly topical 46 min. documentary about the secretive world of private military companies. > More…