I am a filmmaker and poet. My work explores being between two worlds and searching for home - reflective of my experience growing up in a restrictive religious community, being bisexual, neurodivergent, and living within a chronically sick body that fluctuates between disabling stillness and gentle streams of energy. I approaches my work with ...
Read MoreI am a filmmaker and poet. My work explores being between two worlds and searching for home - reflective of my experience growing up in a restrictive religious community, being bisexual, neurodivergent, and living within a chronically sick body that fluctuates between disabling stillness and gentle streams of energy. I approaches my work with a poetic lens, looking for ways to express characters internal worlds through movement and the worlds that they inhabit, working creatively with editorial structure, sound design and music. My work consciously allows space for life’s realities and struggles to coexist with joyful and empowering moments, maintaining an authentic emotional balance.
My first produced work as a writer/producer, Dirty Laundry, won Best British Pilot at Pilot Light Festival in 2018, and my portfolio as a writer/director has screened at BAFTA and BIFA qualifying festivals such as London Short Film Festival, Bolton Film Festival, Cornwall Film Festival, Aesthetica and DepicT! Three of my films have been added to the BFI Archive; poetic short Period. (2018) and short documentaries, Chronically Locked Down (2020) and This is Football: Marcus x Jacob (2021).
I am a BAFTA Connect member and was awarded a place on the year long mentorship scheme Peckham Rise run by I Like Networking and Market Peckham.
I co-founded Faded Neon Films with my partner Toby Anthonisz. The production company creates work that challenges stigmas around ability, age and identity through the stories they tell and the people they collaborate with to tell them, and they are developing ways for productions to be accessible for people with time and energy limitations. We currently run the company part time.
I've built my portfolio alongside a long career in adminstrative roles within the industry, including as an Events Adminstrator and Coordinator (Fremantle, Indielab, A+E Networks), Personal/Executive Assistant (A+E Networks, Film4, Genesis Cinema). I've also worked as a Script Reader (Thousand Films) and Pre Selector (Cornwall Film Festival, Fragments Films Festival).
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