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IN PRODUCTION

Documentary

Director / Producer

Commissioned by Arts Council of England.

Reimagining archive footage shot at my father's pit, Annesley Bentinck 25 years ago when it was announced it would close. On the eve of a new millennium a new life was promised. But as my father was dying from coal dust and the mine shaft was sunk into a black hole, the men are now ghosts. A poetic, visceral portrait of what coal has come to mean today in a world hurtling towards a bigger black hole.

Feature film / In development

A young female vampire travels across England in search of her sex-trafficked sister, leaving a bloody trail of vengeance in her wake.

Selected for Cannes Film Festival / Frontieres Co-Production Market and shortlisted for Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab.

Short film funded by Creative England and BFI Network.

A young girl confronts her bullies with the help of her horse. Based on a true story of the filmmaker taking her pony into school for Show and Tell.

TRIGGA screened to critical acclaim at over 40 international film festivals, winning awards around the globe: Grand Prize for Live Action at the Oscar Qualifying Rhodes Island and Best Directing prize at Women’s Independent Film Festival.

150,000k views you can see the film on award winning short film platform Omeleto: http://omeleto.com/254004

Selected for IntoFilm educational charity, screens in schools nationally.

FEATURE / IN DEVELOPMENT

A modern day ‘Thelma and Louise’ about the dangerous places love takes you.

First round of development through Creative England, BFI and BBC Films I –Features scheme.

A tender love story between a lap-dancer and a stranger she meets one rainy night.

Commissioned by Screen Yorkshire.

Screened in competition at Encounters, Melbourne, Leeds and London International Film Festivals.

Writer / Director

Commissioned by Film4

Can she have her cake and eat him? Two strangers meet and a night of strange passion unfolds.

Featuring Jodhi May (Last of the Mohicans, Ginger and Rosie, The House of Mirth) and Enzo Cilenti (Free Fire, High Rise, Game of Thrones)

Screened in competition at Rotterdam, Brest, Sitges, Oberhausen, Leeds and London International Film Festivals.

Documentary - 45 minute

Commissioned by Arts Council of England.

Director / Producer

It is 25 years since my father's pit, Annesley Bentinck closed and he died from coalminers lung. As his ailing body closed down, it was announced his pit would close. The film follows the footsteps he took to get to the coalface. Meets miners' he worked with and hears their thoughts about what a new life might mean in a new millennium. Pit closures are not a new story, but the miners' testimonies of friendship, family, masculinity and loss speak of more personal experiences than the usual black & white stereotypes.

Screened at the gates of Annesley Bentinck Colliery after its closure. Published essay in Small Acts, Performance, the Millennium and the Marking of Time, by Black Dog Publishing. Edited by Adrian Heathfield.

Documentary portrait of  my father an ex-coalminer turned inventor of the horse jaquzzi and Morrissey fanatic.

Commissioned by BFI and Channel 4.

Produced by Laura Hastings-Smith ( HUNGER/ MACBETH)

The film was selected by BFI for their 100 British Films reflecting ‘Britishness.’

Streaming on: https://vimeo.com/69007661