Fault Lines, Commissions

January 6, 2014 12:00AM ET

Fault Lines commissions a number of films each year, working with outside producers to go beyond the headlines.

Topics:
U.S.

Overview

Al Jazeera’s "Fault Lines" is an award-winning documentary series that goes beyond the headlines and holds the powerful to account as it examines the impact of U.S. policy domestically and throughout the world.

With the common goal of exploring America's role in world affairs, "Fault Lines" stories can be national, international or regional in scope, but must have clear and significant stakes for communities and/or individuals.  

Episodes are 25-minute, correspondent driven documentaries, with a strong visual and storytelling style. Fault Lines airs weekly on both Al Jazeera America and Al Jazeera English. 

Submission Guidelines

Fault Lines accepts pitches for commissions on a rolling basis. Please email a 1-2 page outline of the story to our commissioning producer, Lucy Kennedy:  Lucy.Kennedy@aljazeera.net

Lucy Kennedy, Commissioning Producer

Prior to joining Fault Lines Kennedy was Field Producer for the PBS Frontline film, Two American Families and the Moyers & Company film, The United States of ALEC.

She produced investigative stories for the PBS series, Need to Know. She has also produced for Bloomberg Television, Radio Telefis Eireann, and worked on the PBS international documentary series Wide Angle. More...