James Bluemel

[2] Bluemel visited Baia Mare, a town in north Romania and was shocked to see the living conditions of the Roma community there.

The documentary also follows Mihaila a middle-aged nurse, who comes from more comfortable circumstances in Constantia on the Black Sea coast.

For directing this Bluemel won the 2017 British Academy Television Craft Award for best factual programme.

At the award ceremony Bluemel broke with convention to allow Hassan Akkad - one of the refugees featured in the programme - to participate in the acceptance speech.

While the documentary was criticized by some for incomplete representation of the Iraqi experience throughout the initial conflict and its aftermath,[5] the series was widely acclaimed in the British press,[6][7] and won the award for best documentary at the Rose D'Or international awards festival in December 2020[8]