THE JIHADIS NEXT DOOR
JAMIE ROBERTS - CAMERA, PRODUCER & DIRECTOR - 1 HOUR FILM FOR CHANNEL 4 - PRODUCTION COMPANY: MENTORN MEDIA
"JAMIE ROBERTS WAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT TO MAKE THIS DOCUMENTARY. IT IS IMPORTANT AND BRAVE" Guardian
"SHOCKING AND CRUCIAL" Telegraph
"GROUNDBREAKING" Daily Mirror
Shortlisted for the Grierson Awards - 'Best Documentary on Current Affairs' 2016
Nominated for 'Best News & Current Affairs' - Broadcast Awards 2017
Jamie Roberts' documentary filmed over the course of two years, takes an intimate look at the people spreading extremist fundamentalism in Britain. In 2014 Roberts filmed Islamic extremist Abu Rumaysah, who became one of the world's most wanted men and is suspected of being the British jihadi in a recent IS execution video. This film gains extraordinary access to a new wave of extremists, including Rumaysah, who are radicalising and grooming young British Muslims, and asks whether they really have non-violent aims, as they claim, or are a genuine threat to society. First broadcast 19.01.16 at 9PM on Channel 4.