current work details
Roles:
Editor - Offline, Writer, Director
Website:
http://ukscreen.com/crew/faq
Where I work:
I am just me
Technical Skills:
Final Cut Pro, Avid, Adobe Premiere
Resources/ Expertise:
My varied experience, Final Cut Pro set-up
Availability:
Paid Work or Collaboration
training
2002 MA Film Production (screenwriting) Northern Film School Leeds
1999 PGDip Film Production (Editing & Sound Design) Northern Film School Leeds
1997 BSc (Hons) Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Leeds University
personal info
Films I wish I had made:
The Battle of Algiers, Macbeth (Orson Welles version), In this World, The War Game, Dune, Letter from an unknown woman, Paths of Glory, Andrei Rubilov, The Third Man, Point Blank, There's Something About Mary, Ran, Barry Lyndon, Ikuru, Modern Times, Days of Heaven, Odd Man Out, Quiemada (Burn), Mishima, Stalker, Touch of Evil, Dr Strangelove, 2001 and many more.
I cried watching:
None of your business.
I left the cinema during:
I still regret not doing so during East is East. Fifth Element is another movie I despised whilst The League of Extraordinary Gentleman should have been buried as toxic waste. A Swedish movie, Fragmentation, was just a criminal waste of celluloid from someone who thought they were Alain Renais but had neither the brains or his talent. I had the misfortune to be trapped in the middle seat of the middle aisle but luckily was carrying a good book.
The worst experience was with a South African feature, Forgiveness, where the director was present. A self righteous pile of rubbish about how black people should learn to forgive white people for years of Apartheid (White policeman: "Sorry we oppressed you". Black victim: "Sorry we were so oppressing"). Moral of this story: Sit close to the aisle whenever possible and then when escaping, make it look like your going to the bathroom thus not offending any visiting filmmakers whom you might want work from afterwards.
Directors I love:
Stanley Kubrick, Gillo Pontecorvo, Orson Welles, Peter Watkins, Guru Dutt, Michael Mann, David Cronenberg, Akira Kurosawa, Terrence Malick and many others
Actors I admire:
Too many to list.
My desert island discs:
Here's a short sketch I directed, The Lift, now doing quite well on Atom Films.
Books I have given my friends:
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Devils of Loudon by Aldous Huxley
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Flicker by Theodore Roszack.
Brainwashing by Kathleen Taylor
Mr. Mike by Dennis Perrin
Who Paid the Piper? by Frances Stoner Saunders.
My death row meal:
Though many would wish it, I am delaying my departure
and therefore am not looking at the menu.
The best thing I own:
A persons belongings should never own them but I'm going to hurt you badly if you try and go for my laptop.
More:
Awards & Recognition
2006 - Selected for the Skillset/Lighthouse Guiding Light scheme.
2005 - Shortlisted for the Rushes Best Newcomer Award for Scribble.
2004 - Selected to develop feature script, Gods Lonely Man for First Film Foundation's First Development Scheme
2003 - Selected for Script Factory/Film Council Writers Group,
2003 - Selected for Flicks on 66 for short script Lifters,
2003 - Shortlisted for Sundance Screenwriters Lab for Slow Burn
2003 - Shortlisted for North West Visions Digital Short Script Competition for The Ninety Second Minute
2003 - Finalist in Slamdance/Xeolux Slam Fi short script contest for Rewind to the Resurection
2003 - Finalist in Moviepoets short script contest for The Practical
2003 - Semi-finalist in Kaos Films British Short Script Competition for The Ninety Second Minute
2003 - Quarterfinalist in Cinestory short screenwriting awards for Honeytrap
2002 - Top 50 Finalist in Paramount Studios/Chesterfield Writers Film Project,
2002 - Winner in the Words From Here/Group 101 Nick of Time script contest for Boxed In (shot as Cold Call)
2002 - Winner in the Moviepoets short script contest for The Ninety Second Minute
2002 - Selected for BBC Cyber City to develop Sleep Easy
2002 - Selected for BBC New writers Comedy scheme to develop TV sitcom Cabbies
2002 - Quarterfinalist in Cinestory Screenwriting Awards for the script Slow Burn
2002 - Quarterfinalist in Kaos Films British Short Screenplay competition for Honeytrap
2001 - Semi-finalist in Paramount Studios/Chesterfield Writers Film Project
2000 - Winner of the Kodak Student Commercial Film Award Best Editing for Madame Perrier
2000 - Runner up
In-Movies.co.uk short script competition for Boxed In
2000 - Selected for Euroscript Screen story award to develop feature script In Bright Darkness
2000 - Selected for Black Coral/DNA Films Focus on Talent 3 Award to develop feature script Slow Burn
1999 - Selected for TAPS/Yorkshire TV Writers Workshop for the script Pequods Fury
1998 - Finalist in Working Title Films Ltd/Jerwood Film Prize for the script Pequods Fury
1995 - Selected for BBC Radio 4 workshop as part of First Bite for the short story Breaking Dreams
1995 - Winner of The Lloyds Bank/Channel 4 Film Challenge for Movin As A Massive
1994 - Runner up in the Lufthansa/Royal Mail Young Travel Writer Of The Year Competition.
