Zoe Sale

Zoe Sale is a journalist and producer with decades of experience in current affairs, popular factual TV and independent documentary film. She was part of the multi award winning Nobel nominated team behind ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ (2011) and ‘War Crimes Unpunished’ (2012) for Channel 4 and produced ‘No Fire Zone’ (2013) a feature length documentary with the same team that was nominated for a Grierson and an international Emmy.  

The global outreach campaign and worldwide screenings Zoe managed won the Britdoc Puma Impact Award.  The team's journalism is credited with playing a key role in convincing the UN Human Rights Council to launch a major international war crimes investigation into the events in the closing stages of the Sri Lankan civil war. 

As a Development Producer Zoe has come up with her own original content and developed ideas that have been commissioned including, 'Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School' (3x60 BBC2/Open University). The series went viral in China and was mentioned by Xi Jinping on a state visit.  ‘Make Me A German’ (1x60 BBC2) and ‘Slum Survivors’ (3x 60 BBC3) were also her creations. 

Recently Zoe ran the new talent programme and yearly fellowship for the global journalism charity, One World Media. She supported emerging storytellers from global majority countries to make their documentary and multimedia projects.    

Zoe is an HEA Fellow and has taught Film, TV, Journalism and Radio in higher education since 2017 as a senior lecturer at UCA, Portsmouth University and most recently at Ravensbourne University London.