Aged 18, I chose stability and certainty over creativity and impulse. I studied medicine, became a doctor. For years, I built a narrative. Facts and logic win over ambiguity and emotion. But there was always a niggling feeling. A way to express what was missing eluded me. I chased it through increasingly bold experiences. I lived in Antarctica for a year, I ran an Ebola hospital in Sierra Leone during the West African Ebola outbreak, I researched epidemics for the UK government - more Ebola, plague, other diseases, living and working in the DRC, Somaliland, Madagascar, and others. These experiences left their mark on me, made me question my choices, and, unexpectedly, also, my moral character. This moment of questioning brought things to a head and repeatedly drew me back to what I was in awe of as a child. Film. Telling stories through the visual and spoken medium as a way of making sense of the world. 

My first two shorts (CRASHING & MA) were both simple, stylised, and each filmed in one room over the course of one day. CRASHING was selected for multiple Oscar/BAFTA qualifying festivals and received a special mention for the Oscar qualifying Light in Motion Prize at Foyle Film Festival. MA was recently completed and is currently in submission.

I’m a winner of the 2024 BAFTA Rocliffe Writing Competition, one of six writer/directors selected for the inaugural UK National Film and Television School (NFTS) Sean Connery Talent Lab in 2024, as well as being part of the 2024 NFTS John Yorke Writers Academy. 

My stories often involve placing characters in intense situations that force them to confront their humanity and their moral decisions. My next short (MOTHERLAND) is set in near future Russia - as Russia sinks into totalitarianism, a woman is forced into committing a terrible act that will forever change her identity as a mother. 

Some of the writers and filmmakers whose work I admire include Tony Kushner, David Mamet, Clifford Odets, Alexander MacKendrick, Thelma Schoonmaker, Anne Coates, Denis Villeneuve, Billy Wilder, Polanski, Scorsese, and the Coen brothers. I'd love to hear from producers and other filmmakers who are interested in developing collaborations and working relationships based on trust, openness, passion, and fun. Coffee and a chat would be ace. I’m based in London.