Award winning director & writer.

Raised in Yorkshire.

Based in London.

Thanks for dropping by! I’m a 2 x BAFTA nominated director, primarily of tv documentaries, and now venturing into fiction. My second short as a writer/director, ‘Choked Up’ starring Maxine Peake & Adam James, is currently on the festival circuit. It screened at multiple BAFTA and Oscar qualifying festivals and now on Shorts TV, Omeleto and Samansa: You can watch here.

My first short ‘ARM’, is a comedy horror about pandemic isolation, co-created with Katherine Markwick of Hot Ice Theatre. It premiered at London’s Frightfest, screened at multiple film festivals & I won Best Director at the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival. It's now on https://www.arrow-player.com/, the home of cult cinema.

During covid lockdown I wrote 'Fred Gets Feedback', a short fiction to be filmed on Zoom, for a BBC Writersroom opportunity. Of 6800 scripts, mine was one of 8 chosen to be made. The film went on to win  a Rose D'Or for Best Multiplatform. You can watch it here on the BBC website.

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BBC Writersroom Producer & Director Angela Galvin and I with our Rose D’Or!

With a career spanning 20 years in the industry, I’ve directed and scripted a wide range of documentary & drama doc programmes for BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Amazon. I create a great rapport with contributors and performers, and have worked with high profile talent on location around the world. I’ve filmed primetime docs with wild animals, combining stunning footage with relatable conservation stories, and I’m known for creating compelling narrative arcs, and script writing for everything from serious crime to comic. I’ve just finished directing on Amazon Prime’s ‘007:Road to a Million’, filming epic challenges across the world.

In 2019 I was BAFTA nominated for feature documentary ‘School For Stammerers’. The press described it as ‘a remarkable documentary, told simply and respectfully’, and ‘an emotional journey, for the participant and for the viewer – there are tears all round. Practically drama’.

My latest short film ‘Where To?’ won Festival Director’s Choice at Unrestricted View Film Festival, was nominated for Best Director and Best Drama at Greenwich Film Festival. It’s now screening on Samansa.

Directing showreel.

A selection of scenes from films I’ve directed & edit produced.

Filming showreel.

Some examples of my filming from programmes I’ve also directed, scripted & edit produced. For the Paul O’Grady sequences I also had a second camera cross-shooting.

Links to view films.

School for Stammerers

I feel incredibly honoured to have had the chance to make this BAFTA nominated film. The McGuire Programme is an intensive 5 day course where former stammerers help and support stammerers to tackle their fear of speaking. It was truly inspirational to see the bravery of the new students, and the results were incredible - they all gave a speech in Trafalgar Square, and on the last day, spoke in front of all their family and friends without stammering. Not a dry eye in the house! You can watch it HERE.

Paul O’Grady’s Favourite Fairy Tales

Paul O’Grady travels through Germany, discovering the grim roots of his favourite fairy tales. We had a blast filming the comedy interstitial sequences of Paul recreating some of the lost elements of the most well known stories: Rapunzel getting pregnant in her tower, the evil stepmother attempting to eat Snow White’s heart, and Cinderella’s stepmother chopping off the stepsister’s toe, so she could fit in the shoe. You can watch it HERE.

Fred Gets Feedback

My first foray into writing. At the beginning of lockdown, the BBC Writersroom put out a call for short film scripts to be filmed entirely within a video call. I’d seen a headline about people reconnecting with their exes during lockdown, and I thought that would be fun to write. Of 6800 scripts submitted, mine was one of 8 chosen to be made. In November 2021 it won a Rose D’Or for best multiplatform.

You can watch it HERE.