Double BAFTA recognition for Herts alumna Olaide Sadiq’s Netflix documentary Grenfell Uncovered

Olaide won an award in the Single Documentary category at the 2026 BAFTA TV Programme Awards, held at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 10 May.

She also scooped up the Emerging Talent: Factual gong at the 2026 BAFTA Television Craft Awards in April, which celebrates behind-the-scenes excellence in television production.

During her acceptance speech at the Television Craft Awards, she spoke about how the Grenfell story became “a responsibility and not a job”.

Olaide, who graduated from Herts in 2015 with a degree in English literature with journalism and French, said: “Whilst making this film was my first time in a director’s seat, it very quickly became something much bigger – a responsibility, a bond and a promise to people who let us into their lives.”

Grenfell: Uncovered traces the background and events leading up to the tragic fire event in June 2017 which claimed the lives of 72 people.

The film combines first-hand accounts from those affected by the disaster with evidence of official negligence, going beyond the headlines to examine the systemic failures that led to the tragedy.

“I have been incredibly humbled by the response to this film. To be stood here feels surreal”, she told the audience, as she paid tribute to the “lives lost at Grenfell, their loved ones and the resilient survivors”.

She said: “Let their story continue to be heard and let this recognition be for them, for their strength, for their truth, for their right to their safety, for their right to a tomorrow and for all those residents and those children who never got their tomorrow.”

Olaide went on to say: “They were just people sleeping, just residents like anyone else ending a long day and trusting their homes to hold them.”

Grenfell: Uncovered was produced by Rogan Productions, the documentary filmmakers behind known for their focus on hard-hitting social issues,

The documentary premiered at Sheffield DocFest last year, where it won the Audience Award, before launching globally on Netflix. Olaide was also named a BAFTA Breakthrough artist in recognition of her work on the film.

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