Raul Sacristan
Raul is a wonderful storyteller, with strong creative and technical skills. His background is within commercials (including Honda, Flora, RSA and Hasbro) and short fiction films. Raul also has plenty of documentary editing experience and is passionate about current affairs. He’s worked on multiple episodes of BBC’s This World and Panorama.
Raul loves sharing thought-provoking human experiences, through powerful story-telling and visual narrative. His clients include BBC, Impossible Pictures, ITN, October Films, Renegade and World Media Rights.
Raul has delivered for most terrestrial broadcast channels, and SVOD including Apple TV, Al Jazeera, Discovery, Netflix and PBS.
More work by Raul
Lost Beasts of the Ice Age
Blue Lobster – Maserati and The Telegraph
Blue Marlin Magazine – Blue Marlin Ibiza
Brexit: The Battle For Britain
Carving up the Middle East – The Economist
Colloseum Trailer
Commercials
Exposure – Great Ormond Street: The Child First and Always?
Fairplay
Panorama: Aleppo, Under Siege
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
Frontline: The Pandora Papers
The Secrets of Civilisation
Unreported World: Banged Up for Blasphemy
Unreported World: Hurricane Hell
Unreported World: South Africa’s Deadly Gold Rush
What Killed Maradona?
World’s Most Dangerous Cities
Behind Enemy Lines – The Mexico Turf War Derby – Copa90
Lost Beasts of the Ice Age
A team of international scientists seek out well-preserved remains of woolly mammoths, woolly rhino, wolves and cave lions that once roamed Siberia. Working in tunnels dug by locals on the hunt for valuable giant mammoth tusks, this documentary reveals extraordinary new evidence that could lead us closer to answering one of the biggest mysteries of the ice age – what caused the woolly mammoth to go extinct?
Blue Lobster – Maserati and The Telegraph
Francesco Mazzei is looking for the most exclusive ingredient in Britain, in this case, Blue Lobster
Blue Marlin Magazine – Blue Marlin Ibiza
Fashion Film for Blue Marlin Ibiza.
Brexit: The Battle For Britain
On 23 June, Britain was hit by a political earthquake. Within hours of the EU referendum result, the prime minister had resigned, the pound was falling and Westminster was reeling. So how and why did this political revolution happen, and how does it stand to reshape Britain’s politics? In this Current Affairs Doc, the BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg tells the inside story of how David Cameron’s referendum plan backfired, and Vote Leave won.
Carving up the Middle East – The Economist
Short Documentary about The Sykes–Picot Agreement.
Colloseum Trailer
The series uncovers what life was really like in the Roman Empire through the microcosm of its bloodiest arena. Each of the eight episodes tells the true story of a single character whose fate was inextricably bound to the Colosseum.
Commercials
Exposure – Great Ormond Street: The Child First and Always?
This current affairs doc exposes how some children were over-treated with potentially harmful drugs, interviews families about their child’s treatment and asks whether the hospital could have revealed more to former and current patients about a series of critical reviews.
Fairplay
A small story from the park.
BFI Future Film Finalist
Panorama: Aleppo, Under Siege
The battle for Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and once home to over two million people, is in its fourth year of civil war. Divided between opposition-held east and government-controlled west, ordinary civilians are suffering on both sides. This current affairs doc is an intimate portrait of ordinary people struggling to stay alive, including a civil-defence volunteer who risks death to save his fellow citizens.
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
This historical drama portrays the rise and fall of the eponymous early 18th century pirate republic based in Nassau, Bahamas. The series begins in 1715, shortly after the close of the war of the Spanish succession, which pitted England against Spain. England had waged war on the cheap, resorting to the use of privateers rather than incurring the expense of fully funding the Royal Navy.
Frontline: The Pandora Papers
A massive leak of financial documents reveals hidden assets and deals of the world’s wealthy and powerful. With the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Washington Post, Frontline examines secret finance overseas and in the U.S.
The Secrets of Civilisation
Specialist factual documentary examining the decline of great historical leaders and ancient civilisations touching on Alexander The Great, Cleopatra and Octavio.
Unreported World: Banged Up for Blasphemy
In this documentary Marcel Theroux meets people, including children, who have fallen foul of Pakistan’s strict blasphemy laws, and the lawyers and activists who are determined to see them sentenced to death.
Unreported World: Hurricane Hell
Reporter Seyi Rhodes explores the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian’s rampage through the Bahamas.
Unreported World: South Africa’s Deadly Gold Rush
Seyi Rhodes meets miners who are risking their lives deep underground in South Africa’s abandoned gold mines, which are controlled by violent gangs and surrounded by lawless settlements.
What Killed Maradona?
The untold story of Diego Maradona’s extraordinary life. Interviews with those close to the talented footballer reveal the different factors which may have contributed to his untimely death at 60.
World’s Most Dangerous Cities
Papua New Guinea has been described as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women. Some estimates say that 70% of women in PNG will be raped in their lifetime.
Behind Enemy Lines – The Mexico Turf War Derby – Copa90
Monterrey is home to Mexico’s most passionate derby between Tigres and Monterrey, In this derby, Monterrey and Tigres were level at 105 wins, going into their 106th. With Monterrey playing their first derby in a new ground, the stakes were higher than ever..