Tony Hollingsworth is a key world figure in the use of popular culture as a campaign tool for causes. He has produced nine of the world’s largest Global Broadcast Events plus Documentaries, Films, Concerts, Festivals, CDs and DVDs. His productions have profiled important issues and raised over $21m for causes including Amnesty International, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Red Cross, the Anti-Apartheid Movement and children’s charities in Southern Africa, India and Mexico. He has worked with more than 200 major artists from Dylan to Ravi Shankar, from Denzel Washington to Natalie Portman, from Wole Soyinka to Keith Haring, and almost all of the world’s major broadcasters from the BBC to Gosteleradio, from CBS to Globo, from SABC to NHK. His work has been supported by governments, major corporations and UN agencies and been attended by heads of state and royalty.

His most renowned productions are two landmark global broadcast events for Nelson Mandela, the first calling for his release from an apartheid prison (audience 600m), the second celebrating it (audience 500m).

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