Nevine Mabro
Head of Storyville, BBC
Storyville, the BBC’s acclaimed strand showcasing the best in international cinema documentaries, works with the world’s best directors and filmmakers. Its documentaries inspire and entertain, and reveal the complicated world we live in. Storyville’s head, Nevine Mabro, is an award-winning documentary commissioner, executive producer, and journalist with over 25 years’ experience in world news and film. She produced the Oscar-nominated For Sama, the feature documentary directed by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts.
She joined BBC Storyville from Channel 4, where she was a commissioning editor from 2021 to 2025, specialising in international documentaries and current affairs. Films she commissioned from Gaza, Afghanistan, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, and the US garnered prestigious awards, including BAFTAs, an Emmy, a Peabody, a Grierson documentary award, the Rory Peck Impact Award, and the Prix Italia. She also commissioned the long-running, critically acclaimed foreign affairs series Unreported World.
She previously held several senior editorial roles at Channel 4 News, where she executive-produced three International Emmy-winning programmes from Syria between 2012 and 2017. She has also worked extensively as a news producer around the world.
