I’m a documentary maker and community filmmaker with a background as the Head of Media and Sociology in an inner London college. I recently graduated with Distinction for an MA Digital Documentary at the University of Sussex.  As co-founding director of Postcode Films, I’m now working with various arts organisations and museums to develop creative film projects with young people and marginalised communities, including for the Cultural Olympiad.

My films, including Mr Punch’s Comeback, about obsessive Punch and Judy ‘professors’ and Numbered Days, about a struggling bingo hall in Eastbourne, have been screened at festivals across the UK, including most recently at London Short Film Festival and Brighton See Festival. The award-winning work of Postcode Films has gained international recognition, with festival screenings including the International Human Rights Watch Festival and the Times BFI London Film Festival.

As a filmmaker I’m especially drawn to the stories of ordinary people and the poetry in their everyday lives.  Hence my current documentary project, A Very British Coop, explores the lives of pigeon fanciers in post-industrial British towns; a group of men with traditional values in world that’s rapidly changing around them, and consequently leaving them behind. 

Crossover has been an exhilarating experience so far and has really opened my mind in terms of future possibilities for my documentary career. I’m really excited to be gaining contact with people at the cutting edge of media practice, which is exactly what I hoped for after my MA.