I am an experienced producer/director with the ability to distil complex subject matter into accessible narratives, creating gripping films that emotionally resonate with audiences. I pride myself in my ability to build trusting relationships with people from all walks of life, motivated by my insatiable curiosity in the diversity & complexity ... Read More

I am an experienced producer/director with the ability to distil complex subject matter into accessible narratives, creating gripping films that emotionally resonate with audiences. I pride myself in my ability to build trusting relationships with people from all walks of life, motivated by my insatiable curiosity in the diversity & complexity of human experience.

I am very interested in developing stories from a seed of an idea through the narrative building, production, and post-production processes, owning a film from start to finish. I pride myself in my ability to connect with contributors from across broad spectrum of humanity, from NASA astronauts to African activists, able to draw out authentic and honest insights, whether engaging experts during interview or capturing intimate actuality footage with vulnerable people in sensitive environments. I am a first-rate self-shooter, comfortable behind the lens whether lighting and conducting formal interviews or covering frenetic action in extreme locations. I also delight in projects where there is budget to collaborate with camera and lighting crews shooting on cinema lenses. I am very creative in the edit, comfortable working alongside experienced editors, or cutting myself on Adobe Creative Suite. Either way, I interrogate the emotional response I want to illicit from each sequence, before building the story with layers of engaging first-person testimony, sound design and music, alongside a selection of meticulously researched archive, self-shot actuality, confessional insights from presenter-talent and dramatic narrative sequences with actors. I am particularly interested in more projects where I can tell retrospective stories with a present-day through-line.

• Self-Shooter on cameras inc Sony FX9/FX6/FS7/F5/A7s/BRC, Canon C700/500/300/705
• Experienced edit producer who creatively uses archive, drama recon & sound design
• Building trusting relationships with complex and sensitive contributors
• Unearthing extraordinary stories and developing their narrative structure
• Getting the very best from both A-list & emerging talent
• Conducting emotionally engaging first-person testimony interviews
• Directing single camera & multi-cam crews inc producing/directing drama
• Offline editing on Adobe Creative Suite / Avid / FCP
• Producing development decks/treatments and shooting/cutting taster tapes Read Less