I am a professional writer, artist and documentary filmmaker based in London who has produced and directed films for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and the Arts Council of England, as well as making films and consulting for various NGOs and arts organisations (PhotoVoice, Barnardos, Cancer Research UK, SPACE). I work through OpenCircuit, the network of creative collaborators I founded in 2004, which is committed to developing ways of making socially engaged creative work effective on an international basis. I spent my 20s studying (economics, anthropology, sociology, communications, cultural theory), travelling (South and North America, Africa, South and South-East Asia, Europe) and involved in various forms of activism (environmental, social justice, debt relief). I have previously worked professionally as a radio journalist, publisher and university tutor (and as a chef in Italy when I was 18). My work is concerned with bridging cultural divides and attempting to forumulate creatively-based vernaculars and forms of address that enable the development of post-national modes of identification and communication.
