I am a screen writer and film maker. I have been working in this field for about three years. I did a Screen writing MA on a scholarship from the British film council who have funded various of my projects. I do a lot of community film work, with young offenders and in prisons as well as in areas of social deprivation. I am working on this project with Stampede who produced my first T.V documentary which was about Iraqi asylum seekers living in Great Yarmouth and did very well. Until recently I have been running a community TV station in Great Yarmouth whose philosophy was to give ownership back to the people and empower them by allowing them to make their own content.
I recently wrote and directed a short drama for TV about a boy who wants to be a pirate (and runs away to sea to join a band of pirates) this is being developed as a 13 part series. I am currently working as a writer on a UK TV series as well as developing a feature with the UK Film council, and several documentaries including the Malaria one I bring to you, a mini series about blind pilots and a piece about coastal erosion in the U.K
I have just finished a film called ‘Playing the Game’ a half hour documentary, commissioned by the prison service in which seasoned prisoners explain to new inmates how to get by in jail.
I also run a production company which specializes in commercials and promotional video. My passion in for the story of the underdog, to use film to get close to lives usually ignored or brushed aside or stories which would otherwise go untold.
