Damien Lewis is an award-winning film director, author and journalist. His first ever film was the winner of the prestigious Wildscreen award and since then he has won many further accolades. In 1989, directly after graduation, Damien started working as a freelance print journalist – writing for the likes of the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and Marie Claire. He moved on to become a documentary director and reporter - working for world-class broadcaster like the BBC, Channel 4 and CNN. He has directed and reported material for flagship shows including Dispatches and BBC Correspondent. Throughout his career, he has developed a reputation as a specialist in popular human rights, humanitarian and environmental stories – covering many of the world's war and disaster zones. Damien has also produced more adventure and people-and-wildlife oriented shows for the likes of Discovery and National Geographic. He has recently started more creative writing – including feature film scripts and non-fiction books.

In 1989, Damien was awarded a prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowship to carry out filming in Africa. In 1992, he won the WWF/BBC Wildscreen Golden Panda Award for a rainforest documentary called Parks or People? That same year, he also won a Project Censored Award for a magazine feature published in the US on African tribes and he also received a Commonwealth Relations Journalism Award for reporting in Papua New Guinea. In 1995, his documentary for Channel 4 on slavery in Burma took second place at the BBC One World Awards. From 1995 to 2000, he was nominated each year for the Rory Peck Awards – which reward bravery and risk taking in war and conflict zones worldwide. In 1998, he was shortlisted for a BAFTA, for a BBC report on the heroin industry in Burma, Thailand and India. In 2000, he took second place at the Rory Peck Awards – for a documentary on alleged chemical weapons use in the Sudan. In 2001, he was joint winner of the prestigious BANFF Rocky Mountains Film Festival Discovery – NHK Award, for a ground breaking documentary to be filmed over many months in the midst of the world's longest-running civil war.

On-going broadcast work includes a follow-up to a Channel 4 Dispatches investigating the rise of Islamist extremist terror networks in the UK (produced prior to September 11th), and a long-running investigation into paedophilia amongst the rich and famous in the UK. In 2001, he wrote his first book, the true story of a modern-day African slave – to be published by a number of key publishers worldwide. He is now working on a number of further writing projects – all of which tackle controversial and popular subjects. On many of the more groundbreaking media projects he is collaborating with Asymmetric Communications, an innovative London-based media and communications company.

Most recently, with filmmaking partner David Christensen from Canada, Damien co-wrote, co-directed and shot the feature documentary film War Hospital, a co-production of National Film Board of Canada and NHK.