I'm currently directing across a 3 part series for Sky Documentaries, with social justice and anti-racism at its core. The project is looking to be announced and broadcast for early 2025.
I have shot and cut films for Sky Documentaries, BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, Channel 4 and ITV.
In 2019, I was selected as part of the prestigious BBC New Director's Initiative, which offered me a budget to develop and direct my first single. The film followed a young man who had recently lost his sister to an unknown cardiac condition, as he sought answers as to why young lives weren't being protected, despite so many young people dying unexpectedly each year. The sub-text to the film was Patrick's grief, and Patrick learning to talk about his loss for the first time. The project gifted me the opportunity to spend months embedding with the family; the trust and intimacy we shared is reflected in the film, it is this element that is testament to my personal style of filmmaking.
In 2021, the film was nominated for Best Science Documentary at The Grierson Awards, and saw me nominated as Debut Director in the New Voice Awards.
Projects since have included: Grierson nominated Parole BBC Two, a five part series which followed inmates across multiple prisons, their families and victims, through the complex process of a Parole Hearing; The Changemaker (Paramount+), a single film within a series about global activism. The film explored the oppression of Middle Eastern and Northern African refugees living in Denmark, through the lens of young female Syrian activists and The Plymouth Shootings (BBC Three), a fast turnaround single about the 2021 Plymouth mass shooting, which followed the rise of online misogyny through the digital legacy of the perpetrator.
I’ve spent my career making films largely in and around the criminal justice system and I’m committed to continuing work in this field - with special attention around the rights of children and women.
Outside of this space, I have a strong desire to explore the climate justice movement. Specifically, the fight against oppression within Global South communities, as well as the intersectionality between humans and animals, and how we attempt to adapt and survive in a world not built for this climate.
