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Feature film / In development

Writer / Director

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

Shortlisted for Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab.

Selected for Cannes Film Festival / Frontieres Co-Production Market.

Short film funded by Creative England and BFI Network.

Writer / Director

She'd rather not speak and prefers life as a horse, but the girls at school just won't leave her alone. Based on a true story. 

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.

With over 150,000k views on award winning short film platform Omeleto: http://omeleto.com/254004

“Inspired by the director’s own personal experiences, TRIGGA is notable for its thoughtfulness, delicacy of touch and bucolic visual beauty. It never veers into melodrama, instead, trusting that its audience will float with its images and sounds into Mae's inner world. Her triumph is that she doesn't have to change her fundamental nature to stand up to her tormentors, and she refuses to stoop to their level. Instead, she stands up for herself on her own terms, in the fullness of who she is and what she values -- and commanding her own self-respect, as well as the respect of others, as she does so.” Omeleto

Selected by IntoFilm educational charity, TRiGGA screens in schools throughout the UK.

Feature Film / In development

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

Developed through Creative England, BFI and BBC Films I –Features scheme.

Commissioned by Screen Yorkshire.

Writer / Director

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

Inspired by Planet of the Blind, by Stephen Kuusisto.

Featuring Rebecca Palmer and Jerry Killick.

Produced by Jules Hussey and lensed by Rob Hardy (Ex-Machina, Annihilation, Civil War)

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

Short film - Commissioned by Film4

Writer / Director

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) and lensed by Seamus McGarvey (Die My Love, Atonement, We Need to Talk about Kevin)

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

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