Laurence Topham

Laurence Topham is an award-winning British documentary filmmaker for the Guardian. His latest film, My Brother's Keeper, was BAFTA longlisted for British Short Film 2021 and played at over 20 international film festivals including Tribeca, Camerimage and AFI Fest, and won several awards. Since joining the Guardian in 2008, Laurence has filmed and produced documentaries in some of the most remote regions on the planet, from East Antarctica to the Sahara desert. He has reported on a wide variety of stories including Guantánamo Bay, the Grenfell Tower fire, Australian bushfires, Barack Obama's presidential elections, the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Edward Snowden's exile in Moscow and the battle of Kobani. Laurence is now the Guardian's Video Special Projects Editor and oversees a wide variety of international documentaries and long-term investigations.