Playtopia
Written and directed with Agustina Figueras, Playtopia is a short film set in a children’s soft play centre and is currently in post-production. Photo by Adam Bowler.
Iniquity
Iniquity (2021) was written together with the director, Oliver Goodrum, as a follow-up to our previous short, This Is Vanity (2013, see below), with the central focus of the narrative trained on how the life of the antagonist from This Is Vanity had evolved across the ten years since the events of the earlier film. Alongside its strong festival run, Iniquity also featured in numerous media outlets on its release — including Short of the Week, Film Shortage and Directors Notes — and has continued to attract a sizeable audience on both on its original and sister release platforms, Vimeo and Omeleto YouTube.
Unmourned
After studying under her on the part-time MA Screenwriting course at London College of Communication (University of the Arts London), I was invited by Tessa Sheridan to collaborate on the development and writing of an original feature narrative, resulting in the first-stage short film Unmourned (2020). Though the film was never released, the promise of the work was clear — its newcomer lead, Isla Johnston, was subsequently cast in the starring child role on the Netflix production, The Queen’s Gambit — and so planning for progression onto the feature-length version of Unmourned remains under discussion.
This Is Vanity
A first collaboration in film, with Oliver Goodrum, produced This Is Vanity (2013), our response to the shocking news of the deaths in 2007 of Fiona Pilkington and her daughter, Francesca Hardwick. The film has provoked a profound reaction in its varying audiences, as highlighted most clearly on Omeleto YouTube, where it has clocked nearly fifteen million views since uploading in 2017. Fierce debate continues to roll constantly through the tens of thousands of comments left by viewers, acting as a continual reminder of the responsibility of this industry to probe and to fight and to platform: the work really can make a difference.