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ABOUT TRAJECTORY MEDIA
Trajectory Media is a small production company with big reach. Founded and led by Naashon Zalk, we believe in the power of media for positive social change.We’ve worked in over 50 countries, producing documentaries and factual content for broadcasters throughout the world:
Al Jazeera
Vice UK
ZDF and ARD (Germany)
NOS and RTL (Netherlands)
CGTN (China)
TVNZ (New Zealand)
SABC and ETV (South Africa)
ABOUT NAASHON
I was born and grew up in South Africa. Informed by my Jewish heritage I found it hard to make sense of the racial oppression under which South Africa was governed at the time. Later I became became a conscientious objector, refusing to serve in the apartheid army, at considerable personal cost.
Driven to document the history that was unfolding in South Africa in the early 1990’s I became a photojournalist. I worked for international news services like Reuters, Associated Press, AFP and Getty Images, as well as for publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, Time and Newsweek.
Since transitioning from photography to factual television in the early 2000s, I have made films on a broad range of subjects, mostly focussing on underreported stories:
Telling the stories of South African conscientious objectors
Hunting for truffles in the Kalahari Desert
Documenting A soccer team in one of South Africa’s most notorious ghettos
Following the story of Malawi’s only conservator of cultural artifacts
Filming human rights activists in Somalia and Myanmar
Tracking down a Somali war criminal in the United States
Exposing New Zealand’s water pollution woes
Filming survivors and family members of the Christchurch massacre
Uncovering the scale of Tramadol abuse in West Africa, including how it fuels Islamic fundamentalist insurgencies.
Investigating corruption scandals and unprosecuted apartheid murders in South Africa
documenting homelessness and surviving domestic abuse in New Zealand
In 2015 and 2023 I was an International Emmy Awards judge. For my work in New Zealand, I’ve received the following recognition:
Best Director (NZ Factual) in the New Zealand Web Fest Awards 2019 for K Rd Chronicles (Winner)
Best Director (NZ Factual) in the New Zealand Web Fest Awards 2020 for Breaking Silence (Finalist)
Best Show (NZ Factual) in the New Zealand Web Fest Awards 2020 for Breaking Silence (Finalist)
Our Office
326 New North Road, Kingsland, Auckland, New Zealand
+64-21-084-62400
naashon@trajectory-media.com
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