Meet Sean Langan :
BAFTA nominee and British journalist Sean Langan made his name by travelling to many of the world’s most troubled spots - dangerous and volatile environments noted for war, conflict and civil unrest, armed with nothing more than a camera.
His personal style of filmmaking has been hugely successful with films such as Langan Behind The lines, Fighting The Taliban, Meeting The Taliban and Afghan Ladies’ Driving School being fine examples of his work.
Sean has been making documentaries since 1997. His first film Video Diaries: Nightmare In Paradise saw him investigate the kidnapping of two British tourists in Kashmir. Ten years later in March 2008, whilst working on a film for Channel 4, Sean was kidnapped in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region by a group associated with the Taliban after trying to make contact with Al-Qaeda’s second in command. He was freed three months later (21st June 2008) after his family had negotiated his release. The BBC drama The Kidnap Diaries which is co-written by Sean documents this horrific ordeal.
Seans’ Channel 4 Dispatches documentary Fighting The Taliban won a Rory Peck Award in 2007. His BBC series Langan Behind The Lines was short-listed for a BAFTA, a Grierson and a One World Media Award. Mission Accomplished was voted in the top ten documentaries in the world in 2005.