Happy X ANNIVERSARY is part of an art film festival. Strangelove Festival's Kent Kino curated by Ben Barton is online for 1mn from 28 Nov 2020. Here's the film's mialongblog review by art film critic Dave Andrews

Thrilled X ANNIVERSARY's online platform Premiere is on Directors Notes, 25 Nov 2020 alongside my Interview answering DN's thoughtful thematic + technical q's

X ANNIVERSARY's Australian premiere screens online 19 Jul 2020 3:00pm ET. GIFF Q&A where I answered q's from actor Keeley Forsyth on the film + my craft is on IGTV

X ANNIVERSARY is Female Voices Rock Film Festival's "Short of the Week" w/c 6 Jul 2020. I enjoyed telling them the inspirations behind the film in my Spotlight Interview

.Short film X ANNIVERSARY feat Keeley Forsyth on international festival circuit 2020
.TV drama 60min pilot NETTLES + UK treatment + US pitch. Now writing ep2
.Short film 10min script BLEACHED + UK treatment looking for funding
.Developing supernatural-psychological thriller idea VITA into 90min feature script
.Developing short film script JOY consulting with actor Ryffin Phoenix

X ANNIVERSARY is now an award-winning short film!
Official Selection + Best Cinematography award win Shore To Shore Film Festival Attended awards + screening 14 Mar @ Studio Movie Grill, Los Angeles USA
Official Selection + Best Actor award win Catfish Shorts Film Festival Attended awards + screening 15 Feb @ Whirled Cinema, London UK
Official Selection Geelong International Film Festival Australia Screening online 19 Jul + prerecorded Q&A
'Short of the Week' Female Voices Rock Film Festival New York, USA Online 6 Jul alongside Filmmaker Interview

Gained Screenskills Covid-19 Awareness On Production Certificate Updated module passed Dec 2020
Gained Safe Sets Covid-19 Level A Certificate (International)
Gained Screenskills Tackling Harassment & Bullying In Workplace Certificate

Completed Masterclass Writing for TV online course by Shonda Rhimes
Participant in Page Craft's Writer's Room workshop Demystifying the TV Writer's Room with Liz Hara (Life In Pieces)
Joined Film Fatales LA webinar In the Writer's Room with TV Writers + Directors including Sian Heder (Little America, Orange Is The New Black), Nijla Mu'min (Queen Sugar) and Cherien Dabis (Ozark, Empire)
Joined BAFTA TV Sessions webinar Making of The End of the F**king World with Exec Producers, Directors, Actors and Exec Producer + Writer Charlie Covell

Joined Film Fatales LA webinar Episodic Directing for TV and the Post-Pandemic Future with Anu Valia (Mixed-Ish), Dawn Wilkinson (Empire, How To Get Away With Murder), DeMane Davis (Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker) and Maggie Kiley (American Horror Story).
Joined Screenskills + Directors UK webinar Craft of Multi-Camera Directing TV Studio Comedy with Barbara Wiltshire (Inside No.9)
Joined WFTV webinar Directing Intimate Scenes with Intimacy Co-ordinator Lizzy Talbot

Joined WFTV webinar In Conversation with Kate McCullough, Director of Photography on Normal People, BBC + Hulu
Joined Film Fatales LA webinar Storytelling Through Editing with TV Editors including Shannon Baker Davis (BlackAF, Queen Sugar)
Joined BAFTA TV Sessions webinar Craft of Editing Comedy and Drama with Editors including Dan Crinnion (Killing Eve)

Joined Sundance Collab webinar Telling Your Story With Sound - A conversation with Alma Har'el (Honey Boy) + Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Joined WFTV webinar Post Sound in Film/TV with Nina Hartstone (Black Mirror)
Joined WFTV webinar Music in TV Production with Alisha Lazare from Channel 4

Joined WFTV webinar VFX & Animation in Film/TV with Lucy Ainsworth Taylor (Peaky Blinders, Hanna)

Participant in JMK Trust's workshop Working with Non-Traditional Theatre Texts with Tinuke Craig
Participant in Young Vic Theatre's workshop The Designer and Director Working Relationship with Khadija Raza
Attended Young Vic Theatre workshop A Designer's Process - Nora: A Doll's House with Tom Piper

Collaborating with actor Ryffin Phoenix on my short script JOY
developing the Indigenous American title character's story with Ryffin + under the guidance of her Utah-based Navajo community

In Los Angeles Nov + Dec to attend AFI Festival + catch local theatre

Observed Theatre Director Chris Sonnex collaborate with Playwright + TV Writer Anna Jordan and direct rehearsals of We Anchor In Hope at The Bunker Theatre

X ANNIVERSARY
Official Selection + Best Cinematography Award nomination Underwire Festival
Attended awards + screening 16 Sept @ Castle Cinema, London UK
Official Selection for Kerry Film Festival
Attended screening 20 Oct @ St Mary's Church, Kerry Ireland
Official Selection for Margate Film Festival
Attended screening 23 Oct @ Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate UK
Official Selection for Filmstock 12 International Film Festival
Screening 22/23 Nov @ Youthscape, Luton UK
Selected for Directors UK + Spotlight's Directing Actors workshop
Festival Formula submitting my new short X ANNIVERSARY feat Keeley Forsyth to international film festivals now..

Directed two theatre pieces for Wolab's HAPPY EVER AFTER? showcase at The Bunker Theatre feat Yu Heng Li + Rebecca Rayne

Attended Young Vic Theatre workshops Incorporating Movement: Devising & Collaborating workshop w Kwesi Johnson + Voice: tools for Directors practical workshop w Cathleen McCarron + Dramaturgy in British Theatre workshop w Zoe Svendsen

Applied for BBC New Directors scheme + Directors UK + ITV Studio's Multi-Camera Drama Directors Workshop
Submitted original TV pilot to BBC Script Room Drama 2019

Awarded Directors UK's Inspire Mentoring & Career Development Scheme

Shadowed Film/TV Director Jill Robertson as she directed Harlots ITV/Hulu S2

Shadowed TV Director David Lewis Richardson as he directed continuous drama
Doctors BBC One

Observed Theatre Director Hamish Pirie direct his tech/dress rehearsal of Instructions For Correct Assembly at Royal Court Theatre

Selected for Euroscript Surgery with Feature/TV Writer Stéphanie Joalland at the
London Screenwriters Festival

Accepted for NFTS developing + pitching drama short course
Accepted for Directors UK pitching workshop

Official Selection music promo Keeley Forsyth THEN THERE CAME A TIME screening at Margate Film Festival ahead of my Margate shoot for next short film X ANNIVERSARY also feat Keeley Forsyth

Pitched Lightening Talk round for Genesis Future Director Award at Young Vic Theatre

Submitted original 30min TV drama pilot to 4stories

Williamsburg International Film Festival, NYC
International Film Festival of Cinematic Arts (IFFCA), LA
NewFilmmakers Fall series, NYC
SoCal Creative & Innovative Film Festival, LA

Press - Little Black Book article on Promo

Promo News + selected for Videostatic's WATCH IT list

NYLA International Film Festival
NewFilmmakers Fall series, NYC
London Independent Film Festival

Promo News + selected for Videostatic's WATCH IT list

DRIVEN short was nominated for 'Best Thriller' short film at the Limelight Film Awards

DRIVEN short has been invited to screen before 'Barton Fink' (Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen) at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art, London) as part of a series of films presented by the Institute of Psychoanalysis. After the screening, leading psychoanalysts (including Andrea Sabbadini, Chairman of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival) will discuss 'Barton Fink' while also referencing DRIVEN. I was invited to introduce the film.

DRIVEN has been selected to be screened in New York City as part of the NewFilmmakers Soho Screening Series (British Film Program) at Soho House, 29-35 Ninth Avenue

DRIVEN was selected for Supershorts TV broadcast (SKY 219)

DRIVEN short film is available to rent or purchase on IndieFlix.com

DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME charity promo for Changing Faces was nominated for 'Best Freefall' at the Limelight Film Awards