Deej Phillips
Documentary Filmmaker
Anjana, Sreejith, and Dipika are from vastly different regions of India, but all have one thing in common: they are having invaluable impacts on the lives of the people they share their communities with and beyond, by communicating and implementing solutions to adapt to the unjust climate crisis.
A three episode short documentary series available to watch in full on Waterbear.com and zainjafferfoundation.org
Episode 1 - Harvest Mother
Episode 2 - Climate Guardians
Episode 3 - The Mangrove Family
Kratika lives in densely populated Bangalore in South India and cares deeply about the natural world. She spends her days working for Ohmium, a renewable energy company encouraging some of the biggest consumers of fossil fuels to swap to their ‘green hydrogen electrolysers’ that are able to decarbonise heavy industries such as steel and cement industries.
The film was directed and co-produced with BBC Storyworks for the Humanising Energy series presented by the World Energy Council.
Hannah Walker takes Gwilym Pugh for a wander around East London to show him some of the tasty and nutritious food that is growing all around us, even in urban environments. Learn about the biodiversity that can exist within a city and the functional benefits for some apparently inconspicuous plants.
Tuberculosis is a curable illness, yet millions of people still die from it every year. Shravya from Google Health and Dr Raju from Apollo Hospitals have teamed up in an attempt to reach TB patients in rural communities in India, who are some of the most impacted by the disease in the world. Through using artificial intelligence to detect TB in chest x-ray scans they hope to speed up diagnosis and save countless lives in the process.
The film was directed and co-produced with BBC Storyworks for the Healthier Together series presented by the WHO Foundation.
In India, there is roughly one psychologist for every 100,000 people – meaning many of the country’s vast population experiencing mental health struggles do not receive the care they need. Bindiya and her team from Sangath are providing vital mental health support to their communities and beyond through their tele-counselling service which is supported by Maybelline New Year.
The film was directed and co-produced with BBC Storyworks for the Healthier Together series presented by the WHO Foundation.
I talk about the human and emotional side of the climate crisis and how we can all do our bit by communicating this to each other better.
This is something I attempt to do through my work as a documentary filmmaker and I love to inform others how they can do the same using their own skillset.
Sattya Collective invited me to be the guest on their second episode of "In Conversation with” hosted by Suraj Shakya.
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Ravinol and I were invited to screen clips from our documentaries and discuss the power of film to bring impact stories to life.
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I talk about how any business can start filming their own simple video content to help promote their products and services.
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An article about the work Neelima Vallangi and I have been doing in Nepal documenting the climate crisis.
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Deej Phillips is a British and Indian documentary filmmaker with over ten years of experience, specialising in capturing cinematic footage to tell compelling personal stories. He shines a light on environmental stories with the aim of creating meaningful impact through his films. His work has been seen on BBC, DW, Sky TV and many other international platforms.
Recently, his focus has been to communicate the human cost of the climate crisis through his documentaries. His most recent work was directing, shooting and producing a feature length climate change documentary called ‘The Weight of Water’ filmed in Nepal which won best documentary at the Aravali Film Festival 2022 and long listed for best feature length documentary at the One World Media awards 2022. The film premiered at COP26 in Glasgow and watched over one million times across DW TV platforms.
He has been invited to talk about his work at various events, including a TEDx event in 2020. His films have been screened across the world and have been used as educational tools to encourage a diverse audience to commit to climate action. In 2013 he graduated from Birmingham City University with a Batchelor of Science in Sound and Multimedia Technology. He is passionate about ensuring there is a high level of authenticity in his films, and strives to capture stories from an intimate and engaging perspective.