NEWS: EMMY AWARD

Gareth Harvey wins 2010 National US Emmy® award

31st Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards

OUTSTANDING FEATURE STORY IN A NEWS MAGAZINE

HDNet World Report : South Africa's Shame: Modern Day Slavery and the World Cup

Producer: GARETH HARVEY

Gareth Harvey has produced over 200 newsmagazine reports and documentaries for a wide variety of programs and networks both in his native Australia and internationally, including National Geographic Television & Film, Discovery Channel, HD Net, Channel Five (UK), Film Australia, Australian 60 Minutes, CBS 60 Minutes, ABC News 20/20, The Seven Network Australia and SBS Network Australia – covering all aspects of television journalism & filmmaking in all regions of the world – as well as studio and “specials” productions.

He is the author of two thrillers, “The Holztmann Plague” and “The Bannerman Affair;” a book of humour, “Fast Track to Failure, A User’s Guide to Abject Misery;” and is currently writing a fictional trilogy set in fourteenth century Europe.

2011 Seven Network Australia Sunday Night – “WW1 Treasure” (1 hour documentary on Sunday Night’s discovery of a lost collection of photographic glass plates taken during the First World War which eminent historians are now hailing as ‘priceless’ and as one of the most important ever historical discoveries from that conflict.)

2010 Seven Network Australia Sunday Night – “10,000 Hippos” (Newsmagazine report on the largest concentration of hippos on earth – in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia.)

2010 Seven Network Australia Sunday Night – “Operation: Orphan Elephant” (Newsmagazine report on the Sheldrick Foundation in Kenya saving orphan elephants.)

2010 National Geographic Channel – “Ultimate Factories: Bentley” (1 hour documentary on the making of one of the world’s most exclusive cars.)

2010 Seven Network Australia – “The Canonisation of Mary MacKillop” (Coordinated and executive-produced the Seven Network Australia’s week-long coverage from Rome of the canonisation of Australia’s first saint.)

2010 Seven Network Australia Sunday Night – “The Beauty Myth” (Newsmagazine report on the fashion industry’s complicity in eating disorders among young women.)

2010 HDNet World Report: “Rosarno – Immigrants & the Mafia” (Documentary-news report on riots by African immigrants in Calabria and the role of the Mafia.)

2010 HDNet World Report: “Extraordinary Rendition – Abu Omar” (Documentary-news report on the kidnapping of Muslim cleric Abu Omar by the CIA.)

2010 Seven Network Australia Sunday Night – Floods of a Century (Newsmagazine report on the once-in-a-century floods in outback Australia.)

2009 National Geographic Channel – “Explorer – The Vampire of Venice” (1 hour documentary on the discovery of a skeleton of a ‘vampire’ buried in C16th Venice.)

2009 National Geographic Channel – “World’s Toughest Fixes: Atom Smasher” (1 hour documentary on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland/France)

2009 HD NET “World Report” - “South Africa's Shame: Modern-Day Slavery and the World Cup” (30 minute undercover investigation into the brutal world of human trafficking.)

2009 HD NET “World Report” – “Soccer Sickness: What's Killing Italian Footballers?” (30 minute newsmagazine report about the inordinate number of professional soccer players in Italy being struck down by ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease.)

2008 HD NET “World Report” – “The Big Dry: Global Warming and Australia's 2,000 Day Drought” (30 minute newsmagazine about how Australia may be the first developed country to face massive upheaval because of climate change.)

2008 National Geographic Channel – “Wild Spaces –Death Valley” (1 hour documentary on Death Valley.)

2008 HD NET “World Report” - “La Oroya: A Poisoned Town, a Billionaire's Profit” (1 hour documentary on the US billionaire and his role in one of the most polluted places on earth.)

2008 USAID/NetMark “Access to Survival” (30 minute informational video/documentary on the life-saving work of a US aid agency, in distributing mosquito nets in sub-Saharan Africa.)

2008 National Geographic Channel – “Mega-Breakdown – Dismantling the biggest submarine in the world” (1 hour documentary on the year-long dismantling of a Russian ‘Typhoon-class’ nuclear submarine.)

2008 HD NET “World Report” – “Russia’s Golden Youth” (30 minute documentary on the sons and daughters of Russia’s super-wealthy.)

2008 HD NET “World Report – Alternative Medicine - Peru” (30 minute Documentary report on the development of the alternative medicine Maca in Peru.)

2008 National Geographic Channel – “Wild Spaces – Grand Canyon” (1 hour documentary on the Grand Canyon.)

2007 HD NET “World Report – “World Energy Congress - Rome” (Documentary report on the 21st World Energy Congress in Rome.)

2007 HD NET “World Report – “Swedish Immigration” (30 minute report on immigration in Sweden.)

2007 National Geographic Channel – “Dogtown” (1 hour documentary on the Dogtown animal refuge in Utah, USA.)

2007 National Geographic Channel – “Inside Oshkosh Airshow” (1 hour documentary on the world’s biggest airshow – Oshkosh, USA.)

2007 National Geographic Channel – “Explorer: Ultimate Croc” (1 hour documentary on the Saltwater Crocodile of Northern Australia.)

2007 National Geographic Channel (USA & International) – “Secret Yosemite” (1 hour documentary on Yosemite National Park in California.)

2006 National Geographic Channel (USA & International) – “Ultimate Factories: Ferrari” (1 hour documentary on the world’s most iconic sports car – Ferrari.)

2006 National Geographic International – “Mega-Structures: The Ice Hotel” (1 hour documentary on a year in the construction of the world-renown Ice Hotel in Lapland, Sweden.)

2006 National Geographic International – “Robo Humans” (1 hour documentary on the future of robotics, cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence.)

2005 National Geographic International – “Inside: A Space Launch" (1 hour documentary on the launch, orbit and recovery of the most recent Russian space launch, carrying the world's third space tourist.)

2005 National Geographic Explorer – “Super Chopper" (1 hour documentary on the world's most advanced helicopters.)

2005 Discovery Channel/Animal Planet “Tsunami: Animal Instincts” – (1 hour documentary.)

2004 National Geographic Television“Catastrophe: Surviving the Eruption of Mount Pinatubo” – (1 hour documentary)

2004 National Geographic Television“Taboo 3 – Russian Prison Tattoos”(Documentary report, inside Russia’s maximum security prisons.)

1980 -

2003 Senior Field Producer: 60 Minutes Australia, ABC News 20/20,

CBS 60 Minutes. (Produced major lead stories, interviews and investigations for these premier international newsmagazine programs.)