I was excited to find out that Blank Canvas, my short film script containing dialogue in verse – along with its accompanying production plan - was selected as a quarter-finalist in the ScreenCraft Film Fund Spring 2025. This year’s fund had 1100 submissions....
I've written a comedy musical which will be performed at the Brighton Fringe by LGBT+ theatre group Out Cast.
As my next short film Blank Canvas goes into pre-production, here’s a look back at the reading of the script at Rising Phoenix, an arts collective holding a monthly new writing night in the atmospheric Net Loft venue at Brighton Fishing Museum. I knew the founder...
I had great fun writing Camp Fear – a light-hearted Halloween musical - for exciting new theatre company Out Cast. Founded by Elliot Toms, Out Cast has a mission to create a safe space to access the world of theatre in all its forms for the LGBTQ+ community and...
Short film trilogy Time and Tide has been selected for the North East International Film Festival (NEIFF), which takes place at venues across Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 18th-20th November 2022. NEIFF is a British Independent Film Award (BIFA) qualifying festival,...
I greatly enjoyed attending several entertaining sessions at the Romford Film Festival, where Time and Tide was nominated for Best Short Film. The event – which shows over 180 films annually – is held at the Premiere Cinema multiplex. I was involved in a Q&A...
Editing is now complete for the 360 version of MPT film The Mirror, which stars Isabella McCarthy Sommerville performing at the historic Preston Park Manor, Brighton. The short film – viewable with a VR headset – is a literal reflection of the passing of time, in...
Time and Tide has won Best UK Short at the London Independent Film Festival (LIFF). A week after the film’s screening at the Genesis Cinema in Whitechapel, the awards ceremony was presented by the actor Cathy Tyson. After all the work on the films, it was...
Further to the exciting announcement that Time and Tide was nominated for no less than 9 awards at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (IIFC), comes the news that the trilogy has won the IDY Award for Best International Short Film and the Vanguard Award...
Time and Tide has been nominated for awards in nine categories at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (IIFC), which takes place from 8th-13th March in Idyllwild, California. The festival – which Hollywood Insider calls ‘The Greatest Little Film...