Awards include the Race In the Media (RIMA) Award in the TV Factual category, (2001) as co-director with Roger Mills of the four part series "New Model Army". "Playing Model Soldiers", film 2 of the series, which he wrote and directed, was selected for festivals at the National Museum of Film and Photography, the Blackscreen Film Festival and the Watershed Cinema. Films 1 & 2 were shortlisted for the 2001 Grierson Award.

 

"Gardeners In Eden" which he co-directed (as part of the BBC series "Africa's Big Game") won Best of Festival in the Missoula Environmental Film Festival, 1996. In 1992 he was runner-up in The Observer newspaper's Young Travel Writer awards for his account of a journey through the newly independent state of Kyrghyzstan.
In 1988 he won a German Embassy journalism award for his examination of Berlin's education of migrant Turks.