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Being 30 years old, Philip Cox has directed and filmed broadcast documentaries in locations as diverse as Iraq, Sudan or the South American jungle. Having completed an honours degree in Languages and Literature from the University of Edinburgh, he created Native Voice Films with his brother in 1998 with a primary interest in documentary. For the last 6 years he has worked both as a director and producer of broadcast (including BBC and Channel 4) and various documentaries as well as an award winning freelance news cameraman. He also regularly teaches and lectures for The Documentary Filmmaker Group based in the UK.
Philip Cox has been recently filming in Iraq and Sudan. In 2004 he was the first filmmaker to film the Darfur conflict traveling with the SLA rebels (Sudan: The Darfur War), and won the 2004 Rory Peck Award for this documentary. He appeared with his testimony about the Darfur tragedy in the UN Commission on Human Rights as well as in the European Parliament. He is also a principal witness of the International Crime Court in Hague for the war crimes in Darfur. A year after his first report from Darfur he returned back to make another documentary Darfur´s Dirty War (2005). His documentary We are the Indians (2004) won the 2005 Best Documentary Prize at Buenos Aires International Film Festival.
