Filming in Donbas - Winter 2022
Jack Losh is a filmmaker and journalist whose work spans conflict, crime and the environment. With over a decade of experience documenting 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 for a Royal Television Society Award and Europe’s top war-reporting prize, the Prix Bayeux, among other prestigious accolades.
He has made documentaries for the BBC, Netflix, Channel 4, Al Jazeera, VICE News and The Guardian, which have been nominated at top-tier awards and 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 front-line firemen, special forces 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 UNICEF, African Parks, the HALO Trust, UNHCR, War Child and many more.
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AWARDS & SCREENINGS:
2024
True Story Award Shortlisted - Telegraph Magazine, Ukraine
2023
Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents Shortlisted in the Grand Format Television and Written Press categories.
Tribeca Film Festival Official Selection - War Games (producer)
British Journalism Awards Shortlisted: Foreign Affairs - BBC Newsnight, Avdiivka
Amnesty Media Awards Finalist in Broadcast category; shortlisted in Photojournalism category - Ukraine
Fetisov Journalism Awards Shortlisted: Conflict and peace category - Telegraph Magazine, Ukraine
One World Media Awards Longlisted: News Award - Ukraine, Channel 4 News
2022
Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents Shortlisted: Written category - Ukraine
British Journalism Awards Shortlisted: Photojournalism - Nagorno-Karabakh
Fetisov Journalism Awards Shortlisted: Conflict and peace category - GQ, Ukraine
2021
Amnesty Media Awards Shortlisted: Written News and Photojournalism categories - Nagorno-Karabakh
Belfast Photo Festival Shortlisted: ‘A War Refrozen’ photojournalism - Nagorno-Karabakh
Documentary Family Awards Winner: ‘Faith & Religion’ category - Nagorno-Karabakh
Fetisov Journalism Awards Shortlisted: Excellence in Environmental Journalism - Uganda
2020 and earlier
RTS Television Journalism Awards Nominated: Short Film category
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant to cover the Central African Republic civil war
Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents Print trophy (3rd place) - Central African Republic
Frontline Club Awards Shortlisted: Print category
Amnesty Media Awards Shortlisted: Photojournalism - Britain’s Abandoned Black Soldiers. Longlisted: Features - Eastern Ukraine
Kurt Schork Awards Finalist: Freelance category
One World Media Awards Shortlisted: New Voice, Print and Short Film categories
Bradt Travel Writing Awards Shortlisted and published in Bradt’s ‘Travel Write’ anthology
