Jimmy – Up and Down
The final part of the Jimmy Film Trilogy is now complete.
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Freelance filmmaker, graphic designer and community worker, based and working primarily in London. Committed to the arts as a way of articulating social, political, environmental and personal concerns, as well as offering entertainment, personal development, fulfilment and paid employment through their production.
Euroart Open Studios 2017
My studio space will be open the whole weekend at Euroart in Tottenham. I will be showing the final part of the Jimmy Film Trilogy that I have been working on with Jimmy Watkins since March 2014. Below is a short video I made to promote this event.
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For November 2016 to April I worked with Tower Hamlets Youth Council on a Youth Information Film about Nude Selfies. We developed the film by first looking at how other agencies and organisations had tackled this subject. The youth council members also met with a Police Officer who explained the legal side of this phenomenon to them. At…
Continue reading →Medea Award Winner 2017
Somme Tales has just won the user-generated media prize at the Medea Awards 2017 You can watch the ceremony here: http://www.medea-awards.com/home – the announcement is at about 22 minutes 30 seconds. Fantastic news!
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I first met with Education Manager Rachel Hillman and her team in February 2016. At the meeting they set out that they wanted to make a film about the Battle of the Somme with young people in schools. After spending a few weeks thinking over the project. Which included looking at videos on You Tube,…
Continue reading →The Photographers Gallery
During the summer I met with Jai Tyler, education manager at The Photographers Gallery. We met at the gallery which is situated in a great position just behind Oxford Street, in Ramilies Street. Jai asked me if I could devise a workshop for young people interested in using their DSLRs for film making. My approach was to keep down the…
Continue reading →Great night for Hidden Heroes at the Troxy
Last night the Hidden Heroes film makers went to the 2015 Limelight Awards. The event took place at The Troxy, a beautiful Art Deco cinema a short walk from Limehouse DLR. Secret Cinema has used it for many of their screenings, for Casablanca they recreated Rick’s Bar. I do wish I could have seen that. On…
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