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KILL has won her first award for Best Experimental Short at Five Continents International Film Festival.
It's still early days, but the short has already had an Honourable Mention at East Village New York Film Festival 2025 and Athens International Art Film Festival 2025, and has been Officially Selected for Liverpool International Film Festival 2025; Golden Bridge Istanbul Short Film Festival 2025; Short To The Point Film Festival 2025; Barcelona Indie Filmmakers Festival 2025; Anatolia International Film Festival 2025; Monocle Short Film Festival 2025; London Frames Film Festival 2025 and Global Indie Filmmaker Awards 2025.
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I directed and edited this lovely little promo for Choose Love, voiced by screen legend Olivia Coleman with a soundtrack from Coldplay. Produced by Don't Panic London, the emotive script had the lot of us in tears and has had over 1m views on Instagram alone!
My first ever outdoor campaign went live today one the big screen at Piccadilly Circus. I directed, shot and edited this outdoor ad for Choose Love's Charity Department Store on Regent Street - open through December to raise money for refugees and displaced people across the world. An absolute honour to work with them. And I now know what a .HAP file is. Whoop!
I've been working on a big old feature documentary set in a tropical paradise for the past 6 weeks and we are currently in the edit. Here's a bit about the film: OCEAN STAR is a feature documentary about young people in Mauritius, a beautiful tropical island known as the star of the Indian Ocean. Focusing on people between the ages of 16 and 25, with input from their mentors and senior educational, political, sporting and business leaders, OCEAN STAR explores the challenges and opportunities open to young people in the 21st century. Click the pic for the official website, including some slightly cringe BTS of me presenting to camera (I am not a natural presenter). And, why not, some behind the scenes photos from one of the shoot days last week with Nathaniel and our lovely crew. More info coming soon!
Spent a delightful day filming with wonderful weirdoes at Yungblud's first ever music festival today. Me and Lea Emmery designed and decorated a fun kitchen set for Tilly Ramsay's new cooking show this month.
We transformed a very tasteful kitchen in muted Farrow and Ball into a very loud and youthful space which Gordon Ramsay said was "brilliant". High praise from the big man himself. Here's a little glimpse into the process... Coppafeel! (the breast cancer awareness charity) have had a sexy new rebrand and I have them a hand with getting their old assets updated and a put together a new recruitment video for their hugely successful youth outreach program. I've worked with Coppafeel! for years and they are the most amazing charity with the most important message - sign up to their text alerts and check your chest!
For the last 6 months I have worked with Peckham Platform to document several works of public art and multiple talks and events.
Rye Lane Reconnected is a community-led creative programme supporting engagement and collaboration between leading social artists, residents and frontline community groups to collaboratively commission and create artworks for Peckham’s historic and iconic Rye Lane. Over the course of a year young people from South London Refugee Association, Southwark’s Youth Justice Service and Inspire Walworth collaborated with artists including Lesley Asare, Tyreis Holder, Meera Shakti Osborne and Koby Martin. Together, they explored community, heritage and identity to reconnect to public spaces on their own terms. I worked with Charlie Stanfield from Starling to make this series of films explaining the medical and societal benefits of the 6-in-1 Infanrix Hexa vaccine.
Dr. Anita Raja fronted the Ask Me Anything concept, answering questions about the efficacy and history of the treatment. The films will be used by heath care practitioners all over the world to gain a better understanding of how to present the vaccine to parents. We had a great creative concept, with the questions in envelopes hanging from the ceiling, which added colour and movement to the frame. With vaccine hesitancy on the rise, this felt like a really worthwhile film to make. It's not often you can say a film you made will literally save lives! |
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