Fiona Cunningham-Reid

Joins the expedition for week 1

After film school Fiona Cunningham-Reid started as a clapper loader, working her way up through the camera department to director of photography on features, commercials and documentaries.

Fiona writes, directs and produces her own documentaries. Her last film for television was Kenya Murder Mystery following the Tom Cholmondeley Murder Trial in Kenya. Accused of murdering a black poacher on his enormous Rift Valley Estate, the trial has once again raised unresolved and painful wounds from Kenya’s colonial past. Prior to that she made a four part series for Channel 4 The Real Country House exploring the intimate working of Six Mile Bottom a country house whose star shone brightly but briefly during the interwar years. In the last few years she’s completed an MA at the University of East Anglia in scriptwriting and is working on a film about the Cabotines, two women winegrowers in the Languedoc. She was a founding member of Stonewall, the lesbian and gay lobbying group.