Dugald Maudsley
Creative Director
Over a 30-year career, Dugald has been an on-air national reporter, a roving journalist making documentaries from the world’s war zones, and the creator and producer of award-winning documentaries.
Dugald’s interest in real life, personal stories comes from traveling the world creating documentaries on subjects as varied as the war on heroin in Pakistan, Saddam Hussein’s oppression of the Kurds in Iraq and human trafficking in Thailand.
He began working as a television journalist in New Zealand before joining the Australia ABC. He won that country’s highest journalism award for a series on the Russian coup before becoming the executive producer of a prime time documentary series called Foreign Correspondent.
In this role Dugald oversaw the production of more than 120 hours of international documentaries on subjects as widespread as the civil war in Afghanistan, economic riots in Lebanon, and the genocide in Rwanda.
Dugald has interviewed celebrities like Bob Geldof and Keith Richards, and produced interviews with world leaders, Afghan warlords and former members of Russia’s KGB.
Dugald helped produce Crimes Against Nature, a four part series on wildlife trafficking, for Nat Geo Wild in the United States, and 21st Century Sex Slaves, a documentary about human trafficking, for the National Geographic Channel. Both projects have been broadcast around the world.
In 2006, Dugald co-created the Gemini-nominated series Ancestors in the Attic for History Television. It helped people solve family mysteries and find lost relatives. During four successful seasons he oversaw the production of 49 documentaries shot around the world from Canada’s high Arctic to West Africa, China and Belarus.
He also created the limited series Myth or Science broadcast on the CBC’s long running series The Nature of Things.
Infield Fly Productions has also been honoured with three Canadian Screen Awards, most recently for its UK-Canada co-production with Humble Bee Films for Jumbo: The Life of An Elephant Superstar.
Dugald is a winner of the Canadian Screenwriters Award and recipient of numerous Canadian and international honours for his documentary work.
View Awards
Houston International Film Festival
Special Jury Award
Return to Saigon
2006
Yorkton Film Festival
Golden Sheaf Award – Best Arts/Culture Documentary
God’s Tears
2005
Canadian Screenwriting Award
The Premier and The Promoter
2005
Columbus International Film Festival
The Chris - Best Performing Art Documentary
God’s Tears
2005
Houston International Film Festival
Gold Medal - Best Science & Research Documentary
Breaking the Code: The Race to Decipher the Secret of Life
2005
Cine Golden Eagle
Best Science & Technology Documentary
Breaking the Code: The Race to Uncover The Secret of Life
TV Week Logie Awards
Most Outstanding Public Affairs Program on Australian TV
The Bilibo Five
1998
New York Festivals
Silver, Magazine Format (Tony Jones and Ivo Burum)
1998
The New York Festivals
Bronze, National/International Affairs (Michael Maher)
1998
Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism
All Media Coverage of Asia (Mark David)
1998
Walkely Award for Excellent in Journalism
Excellence in Coverage of Asia
Foreign Correspondent
1997
Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism
Best Cinematography (Chantal Abouchar)
1997
UN Association of Australian Media Peace Awards
Special Citation (Michael Maher)
1997
New York Festivals – Finalist Award
Best International Reporting (Mark Corcoran)
1997
New York Festivals – Finalist Award
International TV Programming Award (Tony Jones)
1997
UNESCO Gold Award, The New York Festivals
Female Genital Mutilation (Dominique Schwartz)
1995
Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism
Best Cinematography (Andrew Taylor)
1995
Walkley Awards for Excellent in Journalism
Best Coverage of a Current Story
Three Part Series on Collapse of USSR
1991
NOMINATIONS
Canadian Screenwriters Awards
Best Documentary Writing
Myth or Science
2012
Gemini Awards
Best Direction in a Documentary Series
Ancestors in the Attic
2010
Gemini Awards
Best Documentary Series
Ancestors in the Attic, Season III
2009
Gemini Awards
Best
Documentary Series
Ancestors in the Attic
2009
CFTPA Indie Awards
Best
Documentary Series
Ancestors in the Attic
2008
Gemini Awards
Best Direction in a Lifestyle/Practical Information Program or Series
Ancestors in the Attic
2008
Gemini Awards
Best Host or Interviewer in a General/Human Interest or Talk Program or Series
Ancestors in the Attic
2008
Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism
Best Coverage of a Current Story
Rwanda Justice
1996