HUMAN

AGE OF EMPIRES IV

I directed the drama scenes for this landmark 5 part BBC/PRS series. Shot with full drama crew on location in South Africa.

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution and how – with the help of the latest discoveries – we’re learning that the story is stranger and more surprising than we ever imagined.

When Homo sapiens emerged in Africa we were not alone: there were at least six other human species alive at the time. Across five episodes, Human examines how we went from being just one of many types of human to the dominant form of life on the planet. It’s an extraordinary story, spanning many millennia, but for 99% of it we have no written record of what happened.