Self taught, early credits include diverse, dirty music videos, work for the Oil Factory and Sony Records, knock-it-out fast and furious television, health and safety videos for and about randy sailors and ultra low budget satirical shorts, such as SKIP LIFE (about a family re-housed into a skip) starring Jane Asher and funded by Simon Relph.
Followed by work directing drama MY FATHER WAS A RUSSIAN SPY (nomination for best newcomer at Bradford International Film Festival) and shorts such as 35mm film DELILAH, funded by Working Title, London Production Fund and the Lottery (scooped a commendation from Kodak at Cannes) and starring Archie Punjabi. This was followed by musical hybrid, BE MINE for BBC4 with Maxine Peake, POPPY shot on a shoestring in India with funding from South West Screen and the UK Film Council, and finally PTIM commission, CHARLEY HARRY’S WONDROUS NOTHING, the proud winner of Soho Blue Award. More recently I wrote and directed a TRIPTYCH of super short shorts for BBC on-line.
I direct drama serials for the BBC and Channel 4, act as mentor and executive producer to projects that capture my heart, make hard hitting sex ed films in South Wales and document all girls football teams in Bristol’s Southmead Estate (GIRL TACTICS)- and have recently been selected for Women In Film mentoring award.
After being short-listed by BBC New Music Talent Award with Warp Films, pet project MOTOMARVIN, has been selected by the UK Film Council’s Cinema Extreme and her original dance film THE BARGAINS has also just secured funding with Whirlwind Media.
Placed firmly in independent film, I’m in development with two screenplays, GADDIBLEDAH and THE NUMBER 9, with APT films. My aim; to keep creating a unique cinematic vision, pushing formal cinematic boundaries and bringing my own take on contemporary characters and landscapes.
