Pig Farm comprises of two south-coast girls with a love of film making and journalism. Jemma Gander is from Southampton and Miriam Rowe is from Portsmouth. Despite this, they get on very well.

Jemma studied journalism at Cardiff University, specialising in West African politics. Her interest in the Sierra Leonean conflict took her to London to work with her favourite journalists, Sorious Samura and Ron McCullagh at Insight News Television.
She has since worked on a number of Channel 4 documentaries dealing with issues of conflict and the developing world.

Miriam Rowe studied politics at Queen Mary College, London. After university she worked as a news reporter for Joy fm, a radio station in Ghana. She returned to do various jobs for African Productions at the BBC World Service before studying a
post graduate journalism course at City University, London.

When their paths crossed over a Mexican rice ball and a packet of crumpets on a sweaty summer’s day in Kennington in 2006, they decided it would be a good idea to buy a camera together and go to Ghana to try and find the human story behind
remittances from the UK to Africa...

It was on a tro-tro (clapped out old minibus) journey into Accra that the conducter bellowed over an Akon track on loop, “Pig Farm! Pig Farm!” And Pig Farm Productions
was born.