Brian Woods
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- Other people with similar names include Brian Wood (Australian Rugby Union player) and Brian Wood (writer, illustrator and graphic designer of several comic books).
Brian Woods, documentary flm-maker, founded and runs the independent production company True Vision, concentrating mainly on human rights subjects. Through the company he has been awarded or nominated for several international awards including 6 US Emmies, a BAFTA, 2 US Peabodies, The Amnesty International Documentary Award, 2 One World Awards, and 3 Monte Carlo TV Festival Awards. The company's films have been commissioned by the BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and HBO, and have been shown around the world.
With Kate Blewett, he received the Amnesty International UK Media Awards in 2002 for photojournalism. Also with Kate Blewett, Brian Woods made a BBC documentary, Kids Behind Bars shown on 17 April 2005, showing the situation of juvenile prisoners in different parts of the world and exploring the problems of juvenile crime and justice; they also co-produced The Dying Rooms.
With Deborah Shipley, he made Orphans of Nkandla, a documentary about children orphaned by AIDS.
Woods is a founding trustee of the charity Care of China's Orphaned and Abandoned (COCOA) and a charitable theatre company.
