Tearaway Films is led by Michael Chamberlain, who brings considerable experience in discovering, setting up and producing feature documentaries across multiple territories.

Michael is now taking Tearaway in a new direction, making fiction features with producing partner John Palfery-Smith.

The World Before Her (trailer)

Moving between the verité drama of the Miss India pageant’s beauty “bootcamp” and the intensity of a militant Hindu fundamentalist camp for young girls, the film delivers a provocative portrait of India’s cultural conflicts.

Director: Nisha Pahuja
Executive Producer: Michael Chamberlain

Chemical Attack (excerpt)

The Middle East has been the only region in the last 100 years, where chemical weapons have been used on the battlefield and directed at civilians in wartime: in Iran, Iraq and Syria. This film interviews their victims, tracks the leaders who ordered the attacks and exclusively exposes those Europeans who supplied the chemicals and built the factories to enable this reign of terror.

Director & Producer: Michael Chamberlain

The Coconut Revolution (excerpt)

A small island population in the Pacific fights to save its environment. Starting with only bows and arrows as weapons it fights off a western-backed force for over 10 years. This influential film shows what the eco-rebels did next.

Director: Dom Rotheroe 
Producers: Darren Bender, Michael Chamberlain

Secrets of the Tribe (excerpt)

Tribal warfare in the academic jungle. How the Yanomami have been decades-long victims of egotism, corruption, rape and paedophilia. This HBO/BBC film exposes the biggest scandal ever to hit anthropology. 

Director: José Padilha   
Producers: Michael Chamberlain, Carol Nahra