Esteban is an award-winning director, editor and cinematographer of documentary films who has worked for several UK television channels, including the BBC and Channel 4.

He made his first feature-length documentary, The Light in the Dark, while in his final year at film school. His second project was a series of six documentaries about different fiestas in Spain. One of them, The Runner, about the running of the bulls in San Fermin, went on to win Best International Documentary and Best Directorial Debut at the New York International Independent Film & Television Festival.

In 2003, he flew to the Middle East to try to capture the behind the scenes lives of war reporters. The result was War Feels Like War, which has screened in festivals and on TV channels across the world and was nominated for the prestigious Grierson Awards.

After vowing never to visit a war zone again, the following year he spent three months in Haiti as cameraman on a documentary for Free Radical Films. Esteban filmed important scenes of the 2004 uprising that were also used in reports for Channel 4 News.

In 2005 he began a long-term project in the Basque Country, called La Semilla Vasca (The Basque Seed), which is scheduled for completion in 2008. Presented with an opportunity that was impossible to refuse, he found himself in a war zone once again in late 2005, making a film about the trial of Saddam Hussein for Team Productions in Denmark.

In between filming, Esteban teaches with DFG for the Brunel University MA in Documentary Practice, and the MA in Visual Anthropology at Manchester University.

Sarah Brownrigg

Sarah has produced news and documentary films for broadcasters such as the BBC, Channel 4 and PBS. Her work includes the award-winning films: The Runner, War Feels Like War, and Inside Darfur.

She has worked with Esteban from his first film at college and her work also includes an exclusive news story that provided the world with the first images from inside the recent Darfur crisis. This won the Rory Peck International Impact award for its director, Philip Cox of Native Voice Films and was also shortlisted in the International News category at the Royal Television Society Awards.

In addition, she is a copywriter in the creative industries and works closely with Esteban on the research, development and storytelling aspects of Uyarra Films productions.