About
Training
Ba Hons in Film Studies, UKC
Fiction Direction Course at the NFTS
Acting on Camera with Mark Travis
Alexander Mackendrick on Film-making with Paul Cronin
Directing: Character & Thought with Sonia Fraser
The Director's Choices with Sonia Fraser
Hollywood Camerawork with Per Holmes
Please have a look around and feel free to drop me a line.
As you will see from the other pages on this site, I have directed 12 short films, plus countless other little parodies and sketches. These have won me four awards and been selected for screening at festivals throughout the world. In 2008 I was also nominated in the Best Newcomer category at the Rushes Soho Shorts festival.
Writing and Directing are my passion though I do some producing and editing as well. Between directing projects, I help pay the bills and get on-set experience by working as a focus puller. A tiny minority of my screen credits can be found on the IMDB here.
I've also written many short screenplays and am currently working on the first draft of a feature thriller.
I am a member of the DGGB (The Director's Guild of Great Britain)
Currently reading
On Screen Directing
by Edward Dmytryk
Last 5 film books I've read
Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews
by Gene D. Phillips and Rodney Hill
First Time Director: How to make your breakthrough movie
by Gil Bettman
The Film Director Prepares
by Myrl A. Schreibman
Directors Close Up: Interviews with Directors Nominated for Best Film by the Directors Guild of America
by Jeremy Kagan
David Lean
by Kevin Brownlow
Films watched in 2008
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Der Untergang (2004)
Open Water (2003)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Witchfinder General (1968)
Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001)
Scarface (1932)
The Seven Year Itch (1955))
No Country for Old Men (2007
The Others (2001)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Atonement (2007)
Broken Arrow (1950)
Juno (2007)
Black Magic (1944)
The Jade Mask (1945)
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
The Ladykillers (2004)
The Scarlet Clue (1945)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Repo Man (1984)
Happiness (1998)
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
The Shanghai Cobra (1945)
Son of Rambow (2008)
My Summer of Love (2004)
The Inside Man (2006)
Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Iron Man (2008)
We’re Not Married (1952)
River of No Return (1954)
The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
Millions (2004)
The Italian Job (1969)
Greetings (1968)
Hancock (2008)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Children of Men (2006)
Wall-E (2008)
Cronos (1993)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Following (1998)
La Cage Aux Folles (1978)
And Then There Were None (1945)
The Way To The Stars (1945)