I am a professional director, cameraman and editor. I have worked freelance for companies including Two Four Productions, National Geographic, Artificial Eye, and Tartan Films as well as producing films for Banyak, an independent documentary production company I founded in 2005. Banyak clients include BBC, Channel Four, Demos, FORWARD, UCL, Lancaster and Manchester University, ESRC, and the Environment Agency. With a background in anthropology at UCL and in film and anthropology at Manchester, I am now developing uses for film as both research and documentary for broadcast and development organisations. I am a founding member of PocketVisions a company set up to form links between the media and academia.