Adnan started in television documentary as a presenter travelling from Karachi to Passu in Pakistan for the BBC, next from Kurdistan down to Basra in Iraq. He met armed gangs in Cape Town for Channel 4’s Unreported Word for which he won the Premio Luchetta Award for Reportage, and followed a Sudanese migrant crossing the mountains from Italy to France at night. For ITV, he infiltrated a people-smuggling gang in Calais, France for which he was nominated for the Royal Television Society Journalism Award. He has appeared on BBC, Apple TV, Amazon Prime, ITV, Channel 4, ARTE. Adnan was a judge for the Grierson Awards and the Chair of the TV/Video Judging Panel for the Sandford St Martin 2021 Awards. He has a Masters degree in Film Production. During a two year period in Taliban-held Afghanistan Adnan helped produce documentaries for Channel 4 on the British armed forces fighting the Taliban and was second camera on the Emmy award-winning and BAFTA nominated documentary, Escape from Kabul for HBO/BBC.

Selected documentaries

Awards

2022, HBO/BBC Escape from Kabul, Emmy award-winning and BAFTA nominated, Additional Cinematography and Field Support, Amos Pictures 

2019, Channel 4, Schools Under Siege, Winner of Premio Luchetta Award for Reportage 2020, Presenter, Quicksilver Media

United Kingdom

2025, Sky, 7/7 Homegrown Terror, Senior Producer, Blast Films

Afghanistan

2022, Channel 4, Marine A, War and Justice, on a Royal Marine shooting an unarmed Taliban fighter, nominated for Best Documentaries at BAFTA Scotland Awards 2023, Afghanistan Producer, Two Rivers Media

2021, Vice, Apple TV, Amazon Prime, SBS Australia, Point Blank: Afghanistan, on Afghanistan’s gun culture, Presenter, Signal Flare Productions

Iraq

2018, BBC, Journey in the Danger Zone: Iraq, “The best documentary of the year so far” TV Times, ***** Financial Times, shortlisted for Sandford St Martin Awards, Presenter and Idea, October Films

Migration

2020, ITV/Vice, Hunting the People Smugglers, RTS nominated and Highly Commended in Broadcast Awards, Reporter, DM Productions

2020, Channel 4, Death in the Alps, Long listed for the One World Media Refugee Reporting Award, on migrants crossing from Italy to France, Presenter, Quicksilver Media