A little bit about me..
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Since graduating from Newport Film School Wales in 1999 I have successfully set up and ran a production company ‘Those People Productions‘ and a community interest company Hearthstone Ways. I have produced a number of short films with funding from the Arts Council Wales. Many of the films were nominated for a number of awards including shortlisted for a Bafta Cymru.
I have directed several lottery funded Short Films that have been broadcast and screened on TV and cinemas around the world. I was awarded a large sum of money to write my first feature film and went on to be selected to attend the ‘Berlin Talent campus‘ as one of the best “Up and Coming” filmmakers of the world. I was selected as one of twenty-five UK filmmakers to be awarded a professional mentor, as part of the ‘Guiding Lights‘ scheme. My mentor was Christopher Hampton who still guides me. Currently I work as a freelance filmmaker and photographer working with local companies and art organisations, providing promotional and training films. |
“Make visible what without you might never have been seen.” |
I wrote and directed my first feature ‘Bad Company‘ which was screened at a number of international festivals and won two awards at the Crystal Palace film festival – ‘Best Feature Film’ & ‘Best in Festival’
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"I really enjoyed BAD COMPANY. It doesn’t at all have the air of something written to be affordable, the plot centres quite naturally on the two houses. It’s gripping, has an original tone of voice, pulls no punches and is equally uncomfortably amusing and disturbing, all good characteristics in my book."
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton
CV
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As Writer & Director
Strange and Sometimes Troubled Memories: 4K Documentary Bad Company: HD feature (Produced by Sparkler and Plastic Buddha Productions) Angry Positions: Super 16mm short (Produced by Those People) All my Mum’s Friends are Dead: Super 16mm (Broadcast on ITV1 and Short-listed for DM Davies Award 2002 at the International Film Festival Wales) Buzzing Noises: DV Short (Broadcast on ITV1) CF5 24/6: DV Documentary (pilot) Moves (Reprise): DV Short (Screened at Chapter Arts Centre as part of Experementica) Something to do with the genes: DV Short (Broadcast on ITV under the title Be True to yourself) Closed Pit: DV Short (Broadcast on ITV) D48 NNY: DV Short 185 Cubic Meters: DV Short Missing You: DV Short (Broadcast on ITV) Back: DV Short (Broadcast on ITV) Flying Solo: DV Short (Broadcast on ITV) Morning Sickness: DV Short (Broadcast on ITV) As Director
Paladin: HD Short The life & Life of Horace: Digi-Beta Short / 35mm print (With production fund from the Arts Council of Wales) Tarot Mechanic : High Definition / 35mm print (Commissioned by Sgrin – Screen Gems 3) (Broadcast on ITV1) |
As Producer
Screen Gems 5: Five short films shot on HD / 35mm print Day at the Beach (Nominated for Bafta Cymru 2005) Re:Run They Walk by Day Two Dragons To the Wall (All 5 films fully financed by Sgrîn, ITV 1 Wales, The Welsh Development Agency and the Arts Council of Wales.) The Main Event: DVCam short (Lottery / UK Film Council's First Light initiative As Executive Producer Scratching: 35mm Short (With Production fund from The Arts Council of Wales) As an Associate Producer Penny Collectors: Super 16mm short (With Production fund from The Arts Council) EDUCATION AND TRAINING 2006 - 2007 Guiding Lights Scheme
One of the twenty-five filmmakers participating in the scheme. Mentored by CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON. 2004 Adept 2 Arista Development (As a Writer / Director on feature script – Hope for Jody) 2003 Development Skills for Producers Arista Development & Sgrin 2002 Designing and Writing Treatments Workshop Arista Development & Cyfle 2000 Trainee Producer course Sgrin - Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales 1996-1999 Film + Video B.A (HONS) 2:1 Newport Film School, Wales |
As Writer
Feature Film Script ‘Child of War’
Feature Film Script ‘Light & Dark’
Feature Film Script ‘Brotherly Love’
One hour TV Pilot ‘Enterprises’
One hour TV Pilot ‘Coach C’
Feature Film Script ‘Life Balancers’
Feature Film Script ‘Foot Soldiers’
Feature Film Script ‘Hope for Jody’
(With Script Development from The Arts Council of Wales)
Feature Film Script ‘Child of War’
Feature Film Script ‘Light & Dark’
Feature Film Script ‘Brotherly Love’
One hour TV Pilot ‘Enterprises’
One hour TV Pilot ‘Coach C’
Feature Film Script ‘Life Balancers’
Feature Film Script ‘Foot Soldiers’
Feature Film Script ‘Hope for Jody’
(With Script Development from The Arts Council of Wales)
