Sarah Cronin Producer / Director
Sarah's expertise in investigating in Africa was recently highlighted in a major one hour special that she produced and directed for Tonight With Trevor McDonald “Our Boys Behaving Badly” was based on Sarah's four years worth of investigations on the sensitive allegations by primitive tribes women against the British army in Kenya. Sarah is fluent in Kiswahili, Arabic and four tribal languages and her knowledge of filming in Africa is a credit to her at such a young age. After working in Kachuma refugee camp, the largest refugee camp in Sudan and leading several documentary crews through Somalia at the height of the war – she is a valuable member of a team for any documentary filmed in and around Africa. Sarah is the first white person to ever have been initiated into the Tribe of The Nandi’s and her knowledge of tribal life and customs throughout the Arab and African world leave her with excellent diplomatic and communicative skills.

Sarah is also an excellent stills photographer with a proven track record in capturing Africa and its people at its finest.

Sarah is currently producing and directing a major documentary film in Africa, writing a book for Virgin Books on her investigations and has just completed her first film screenplay to be shot in Egypt next year.

Sarah Cronin-Stanley has been commissioned to make a one hour special documentary for SKY REAL LIVES a new channel which launched on November 9th 2007.

"The Man Who Had Minutes To Live" premieres SKY REAL LIVES - Channel 253 Sky Real Lives Plus 1 Channel 254 Wednesday 12th December @ 10pm channel 253 Thursday 13th December @ 9pm channel 254 Sunday 16th December at 11pm channel 253 Thursday 10th January at 10pm channel 253 Friday 11th January at 10pm channel 253.

The Man Who Had Minutes To Live Produced & Directed By Sarah Cronin Stanley. Pete Nash is 38 years old. He is a loving husband and father to 3 children. For the last two years Pete has been unable to work, drive or do any of the sports he once loved. In 2004 he was diagnosed with the potentially fatal Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) of the brain, a condition which results in abnormally high blood pressure causing the veins to expand and malformed into a tangled mass.

AVM affects 1 in every 10,000 people a year, and can lead to epileptic seizures, strokes, hemorrhaging, and possible death. Pete already suffers from regular seizures and knows that basically his brain is a time bomb, waiting to explode. However, despite the fact that a surgeon in Bristol is keen to provide the lifesaving operation Pete so desperately needs, his local Primary Care Trust have declined to fund it. Instead Pete and his family must raise the £70,000 necessary to get the treatment privately. In this emotional and absorbing documentary, we investigate why the NHS is denying a life-saving operation to such a young and otherwise fit Father of Three, a man who has paid taxes all his life and is now asking the NHS for help.

We follow Pete's campaign as he fights for the right to live. With exclusive access, interviews and emotional video diary footage.