Callum Macrae is a Scottish filmmaker, writer and journalist currently with Outsider Television, which he had co-founded with Alex Sutherland in 1993.

An Emmy,[1] BAFTA and Grierson nominee,[2] he has been making films for 20 years in the UK and around the world, including Iraq,[3] Sri Lanka, Japan, Haiti and several in Africa, covering wars and conflicts in Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Mali, and Sudan.

He then became a full-time writer working initially for a variety of newspapers and magazines including The Scotsman, The Herald and The Guardian.

[5] In 1992, he moved into television, presenting and reporting on Channel 4's weekly magazine programs Hard News, and investigative legal series The Brief.

[11] His other recent television work includes an exposé of Khartoum's war on the Nuba people of South Kordofan for Al Jazeera.