Tom Feiling is a writer, journalist & documentary film-maker.

He spent a year living and working in Colombia before making Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia, which won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, and was broadcast in four countries.

In 2003 he became Campaigns Director for the TUC's Justice for Colombia campaign, which organizes for human rights in Colombia.

In 2009, Penguin Books published his first book, The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took over the World. It was published as Cocaine Nation in the United States by Pegasus in 2010. The book is based on over 60 interviews with people involved in all aspects of the cocaine business, including coca growers, traffickers, narcotics police, judges, casual users and addicts. If you'd like to read abridged versions of the interviews, please click here.

Tom lives in South London.

If you would like to discuss any aspects of Tom's work, or enquire about possible commissions, please feel free to email Tom at tfeiling@hotmail.com