Josh Allott specialises in sensitively made, impactful documentaries. His recent documentary series for Netflix, The Man With 1000 Kids, has sparked conversations all over the world about how we can better regulate the multi-billion dollar fertility industry.

His BBC1 film Roman Kemp: Our Silent Emergency focused on the suicide epidemic facing young men in the UK. It was nominated for Grierson, Broadcast and NTA awards, and won an Edinburgh Festival award, it also raised thousands of pounds for mental health charities through Comic Relief, and lead to a 700% increase in suicide support searches on Google in the immediate aftermath. 

Josh was also a director on the BAFTA nominated Channel 4 series Losing It: Our Mental Health Emergency about children and adults in the midst of crisis, and the police and NHS mental health care workers making decisions around their care.  He was also a director on Murder 24/7 (BBC2), a series with Essex Police as they followed active murder investigations from the crime scene up to the courtroom.

He produced the Grierson, Royal Television Society, Broadcast award winning, BAFTA nominated, Prison (CH4), which involved 7 months filming inside HMP Durham with prisoners and staff around the issues of drugs, violence and self-harm, and lead the then justice secretary David Gauke to announce an emergency multi-million pound funding package for prisons. 

He was the Director of Photography on a feature length documentary about the European refugee crisis, Another News Story, which played in cinemas and film festivals around the world, picking up an Impact Documentary award and Grierson shortlist.

Other documentary credits for British TV include the Emmy award winning, BAFTA nominated Educating Yorkshire (CH4), the One World Media award winning, Grierson and BAFTA nominated The Tribe (CH4), and the BAFTA nominated The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan (BBC2). He has filmed in Ethiopia, Gambia, Sierra Leone, India, Brazil, across Europe and the US.