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Updates from Maritime Film UK’s Rob White, TV producer, reporter and camera operator with 30 years’ experience at the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN

THE NEILSON EFFECT

16 June 2024

One of the joys of maritime movie-making is the extraordinary people you get to meet and film, at all levels – from deckhand to industry leader. In the latter group, please meet Kathryn Neilson (picture), Director of the Merchant Navy Training Board (an organization that has wisely avoided the expensive attentions of image maker consultancies , who’d no doubt rebrand it something like TrainBo or MerchTr. Plus wacky logo.) We first worked with her when she was at Royal Caribbean, for a film about young people in the maritime. At which point she was a senior executive for this major company, with tasks she carried off with gallant ease, also finding time to care for her family. Wow. Now she gives us a task: short socials for MNTB, to encourage young people to think about a maritime career. 1’30 max. Challenge.

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About Rob

Rob is a TV producer, reporter and camera operator with 30 years of experience at the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN, in news, factual and documentary production. He is a four-time award winner, whose awards include a coveted Royal Television Society award for his work on Channel 4 News. His association with the Maritime Foundation goes back to 1995 when he won the first Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award for a series of reports that led to a major documentary on the loss of the bulk carrier Derbyshire.

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