Award-winning documentary maker Victoria Musguin-Rowe

Championing change in the fight against discrimination

Victoria Musguin-Rowe is an award-winning documentary maker and one of Britain’s youngest TV executives.

Graduating from Bournemouth University almost a decade ago with her final year project being a film on women in war-torn Afghanistan. This won the prestigious New Director Award at the 2012 Al Jazeera Documentary Festival.

Victoria crafts meticulously researched documentaries whilst also being in demand as a script and development consultant on both sides of the Atlantic – for ITV, Channel 4, Sky, Netflix and Disney.

Victoria was series producer for the landmark BBC documentary on the killing of Stephen Lawrence. Stephen: The Murder That Changed a Nation won the British Press Guild’s Best Documentary and earned the Screen Nation Award’s Diversity Prize for Factual Programming. Since 2019 the series has been part of the National Curriculum for GCSE Citizenship.

Victoria is passionate about creating equal access to people from diverse backgrounds into film and TV. Giving countless talks, setting up networking events, and created mentoring schemes—to help young talent.

Speaking with Victoria on her past project, ‘Love and Hate Crime’ she explains the impact and importance of reporting on this fragile topic.