The night my Dad came home with our first family camcorder was a revelation.
I barely remember it being brought out for special occasions or holidays, but what I do remember is how often I commandeered it to shoot something with my friends or my toys.
Fast-forward a couple of decades and I haven’t really grown up…
In 2020 I graduated from the London Film School with distinction, having written and directed several short films and worked in the Art Department on multiple others. My shorts have included CACTUS BOY, finalist at the Oscar® qualifying Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival and Official Selection at the BIFA qualifying The Shortest Nights festival, SCRAPS, Editor’s Pick on Vero and nominated for Best Film at the Global University Film Awards, and NEST, nominated for the Juror’s Award at the Berlin Student Film Festival. My latest short film CANNED LAUGHTER is supported by Film Hub South East and BFI NETWORK, awarding funds from the National Lottery.
Throughout all of them I’ve explored an interest in puppetry and practical effects to support my stories of fringe figures and outsiders who project their neuroses onto inanimate objects. Their internal lives become writ large upon the things that matter to them most.
So here I am; still telling stories and still shooting things with my friends (albeit with slightly bigger toys). But if you follow the thread through all of my films, they all lead back to a boy in the suburbs, running around with a handycam.
Thanks Dad.
I barely remember it being brought out for special occasions or holidays, but what I do remember is how often I commandeered it to shoot something with my friends or my toys.
Fast-forward a couple of decades and I haven’t really grown up…
In 2020 I graduated from the London Film School with distinction, having written and directed several short films and worked in the Art Department on multiple others. My shorts have included CACTUS BOY, finalist at the Oscar® qualifying Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival and Official Selection at the BIFA qualifying The Shortest Nights festival, SCRAPS, Editor’s Pick on Vero and nominated for Best Film at the Global University Film Awards, and NEST, nominated for the Juror’s Award at the Berlin Student Film Festival. My latest short film CANNED LAUGHTER is supported by Film Hub South East and BFI NETWORK, awarding funds from the National Lottery.
Throughout all of them I’ve explored an interest in puppetry and practical effects to support my stories of fringe figures and outsiders who project their neuroses onto inanimate objects. Their internal lives become writ large upon the things that matter to them most.
So here I am; still telling stories and still shooting things with my friends (albeit with slightly bigger toys). But if you follow the thread through all of my films, they all lead back to a boy in the suburbs, running around with a handycam.
Thanks Dad.
press
BFI NETWORK | The BFI NETWORK Short Film Slate
Independent Cinema Office | South East Talent
GQ Magazine | Social app Vero is the must-know hub for filmmakers and fans alike
FirstShowing.net | Watch: Fantastic Short Film 'Cactus Boy' About a Childhood Friend
UK Film Review | Cactus Boy ★★★★★
Indie Shorts Mag | Cactus Boy ★★★★★
ABC News (KGUN9) | Local Short Film 'Cactus Boy' Releases A New Trailer
Film Threat | Amazing Short: Scraps - The Boy Made of Trash
UK Film Review | Scraps ★★★★★
London Film School | Fastnet Film Festival Inundated by London Film School Talent
Independent Cinema Office | South East Talent
GQ Magazine | Social app Vero is the must-know hub for filmmakers and fans alike
FirstShowing.net | Watch: Fantastic Short Film 'Cactus Boy' About a Childhood Friend
UK Film Review | Cactus Boy ★★★★★
Indie Shorts Mag | Cactus Boy ★★★★★
ABC News (KGUN9) | Local Short Film 'Cactus Boy' Releases A New Trailer
Film Threat | Amazing Short: Scraps - The Boy Made of Trash
UK Film Review | Scraps ★★★★★
London Film School | Fastnet Film Festival Inundated by London Film School Talent