X Anniversary is Female Voices Rock Film Festival 'Short of the Week' w/c 6 July + will be posted on their website alongside an interview I gave about making the film

X Anniversary has it's Australian premiere screening online 18 July 3:00pm ET at Geelong International Film Festival followed by prerecorded Q&A

.Original TV drama 60min pilot NETTLES + UK treatment + US pitch. Now writing ep2
.Short film X ANNIVERSARY feat Keeley Forsyth on international festival circuit.
.Developing script for next short film JOY with Ryffin Phoenix
.Developing original supernatural-psychological thriller idea VITA into feature script

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 18 July
'Short of the Week' Female Voices Rock Film Festival New York, USA Online 6 July with Interview I gave about making the film

Screenskills Covid-19 Awareness On Production Certificate
Safe Sets Covid-19 Level A Certificate (International)

Completed Masterclass Writing for TV course by Shonda Rhimes
Joined Page Craft web workshop Demystifying the TV Writer's Room with Liz Hara
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
Joined WFTV webinar Directing Intimate Scenes with Intimacy Co-ordinator Lizzy Talbot
Joined Sundance Collab webinar Telling Your Story With Sound with Alma Har'el + Benh Zeitlin
Joined WFTV webinar Post Sound in Film/TV with Nina Hartstone
Joined WFTV webinar VFX & Animation in Film/TV with Lucy Ainsworth Taylor

Attended Young Vic Theatre workshop A Designer's Process - Nora: A Doll's House with Tom Piper

Collaborating with actress Ryffin Phoenix on my next short film project JOY
developing the Indigenous American title character's story with Ryffin + with guidance from her Utah-based Navajo community

In Los Angeles Nov + Dec for AFI Festival + to see 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

Little Black Book online article

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

DRIVEN short has been 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) 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 will introduce the film.

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

Promo News
+ selected for Videostatic's WATCH IT list

Promo News
+ selected for Videostatic's WATCH IT list

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

DRIVEN has been selected for Supershorts broadcasts (SKY 219)

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