Nicholas Claxton is the Managing Director of Elaph Publishing, the largest online daily newspaper in the Middle East. He is also a Director of First Watch TV, a media incubation company specializing in the development of multi-media concepts. He was the Founder and Managing Director of the Web TV The Underwater Channel with Babelgum as its principal investor. He is also an award-winning documentary film-maker with extensive credits as an Executive Producer, Director & Producer with the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, National Geographic,Discovery, A&E Network, Disney, among others. [1]
He was joint producer of a 1984 television documentary Cry Ethiopia Cry (on the Ethiopian famine) which won a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award for outstanding background/analysis of a single current story.[2]
He won New York International Film and Television Festival awards for Apartheid’s Assassins (1991), on South African death squads; and Winnie Mandela and The Missing Witness (1997).[3] His South African visa exemption was withdrawn following the BBC broadcast of Suffer the Children (1988), on the detention and torture of children.[4]
Claxton is Research Project Documentary Film Director for the Khaled Bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Red Sea Project[5] and conceived the idea for a free broadband channel dedicated to the underwater world came about when Nicholas Claxton was producing a television documentary about Red Sea coral reefs in 2006, working with the underwater cameraman Peter Scoones. Nicholas is a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society and lives in London.