Originally studied animation production. Wrote/directed 'Ice Cream and Jelly and a Punch in the Belly' for CH4s Formations series, and worked on commercials, short films and title sequences including the BBC programme 'What makes us tick?'.

Now more involved in documentary film production. My film 'Beautiful Sentence’ about an inspirational poet working with female prisoners has been screened at the House of Commons as well as festivals and conferences about arts and education in prisons. A separate animated film made with women in the prison 'You can be my Friend' won a Koestler Trust Platinum Award in 2009.

I am interested in making films which are either about poetry or which have a poetic sensibility (see ‘Out of Time’ and’ Cold Day in Kennington’).

Over the past two years I have been commissioned by Camden Council to make several short films challenging perceptions of young people including the participatory documentary ‘The Usual Teen Suspects’.

My latest film 'Why I had an FGC' commissioned by the social services is an animated documentary using the audio from real interviews with vulnerable young people.

Apart from film production I run numerous animation and film workshops in colleges, universities, community centres and at the British Museum.

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