I am a 24 years old emerging documentary filmmaker.

I graduated from the University of Manchester in 2024, with a first class BA in Social Anthropology, where I was awarded the annual dissertation award for the most Socially Engaged Dissertation Prize for my research ‘Exploring the UK state’s use of anti-terror laws to targe... Read More

I am a 24 years old emerging documentary filmmaker.

I graduated from the University of Manchester in 2024, with a first class BA in Social Anthropology, where I was awarded the annual dissertation award for the most Socially Engaged Dissertation Prize for my research ‘Exploring the UK state’s use of anti-terror laws to target “anti-citizens”.’ It was a wonderful course and it introduced me to the power of documentary film making.

I have spent the past year doing a training programme in documentary film with Barcelona based production company ‘OTOXO’. During the year we co-created a feature length documentary, LifeClub, about socially excluded young men in Barcelona, who are training in MMA fighting. The film explores how they are often battling against a system that has failed them but learning how to love through fighting. Following this, I then filmed my own short documentary, 'La Pastora', about a young female shepherdess in the Pyrenees, who rejected the capitalistic life of over-consumption that our modern day pushes onto young women. The film explores her relationship to the mountains, isolation, feminism and the animals.

I want to document the outliers of society - those forgotten, disregarded or silenced, those challenging societal norms, those struggling to produce new worlds. Having experienced the combined power of ethnography and film as a way of documenting human connection and intimacies, my anthropological lens puts an emphasis on using collaborative methods for ethical interpretation and representation of people. I hope to tell compelling stories that demand change through the power of the people. Read Less