Damien Lewis (filmmaker)
Damien Gavin Lewis (born March 1966) is a British author and filmmaker who has spent over twenty years reporting from and writing about conflict zones in many countries.In 2000 Lewis's documentary film Death in the Air, about the use of chemical weapons in the Sudanese civil war, was a finalist in the British Rory Peck Awards, but its accuracy was disputed by the London-based European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council.In 2005 Lewis's documentary War Hospital produced by CTV Television Network and the National Film Board of Canada, about International Committee of the Red Cross doctors working in the world's largest field hospital in Sudan, won the Best of the Festival Award at the Columbus International Film & Video Festival.In 2006 he was chosen as one of the "Nation's Twenty Favourite Authors" by the UK Government's Quick Reads Initiative in association with World Book Day.[10][11] In 2024 it was announced Lewis' 2014 book Churchill's Secret Warriors had been turned into a movie, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, by Guy Ritchie.