I am an award-winning writer/director who has worked for over a decade as a writer/director and producer, making short films, commercials and documentaries for brands, charities and museums across the UK. I am also a part-time lecturer in Film Production at Staffordshire University.
As a teenager, I moved from the sunny isles of South Florida to a council estate in Stoke on Trent in the early 2000s. My American and British dual heritage gives me a unique perspective. It has influenced how I approach my stories, many of which touch on cultural identity and belonging.
I have a multi-genre approach to storytelling, and my 2016 short film Diembe was about a young Kenyan boy migrating to the UK. This was an award-nominated and internationally screened short. My previous short films, Family Ties (2022) and The Book of Love (2023) are currently in festivals. The Book of Love won Best Film and Best Screenplay at the Black River Film Festival in June 2024. Family Ties is about a father and son who suffer a deadly accident while hiking. The Book of Love is a Romantic Comedy about a guy pretending to like books to impress a librarian he fancies, only to find himself falling in love with books himself.
My latest film, 7x7x7 (A Pitch Film Fund Finalist in 2023), is about three strangers stranded on a nighttime countryside bus that are unknowingly connected by a tragic hit-and-run that occurred months previously. The film is due to premiere in October 2024.
I have also co-wrote and developed Dante’s Inferno, a Sofian Francis-directed short film, which will be released in late 2024 as a proof of concept for a television series. I am a three-time finalist of the Pitch Film Fund www.enterthepitch.com (Final 10 in 2019,2023 and Runners Up in 2020). I am also developing a feature-length film about the 1919 Liverpool race riots, The Motherland, my 2020 Runner-up in the Pitch UK.
I am a Staffordshire Arts Collective Kwanzaa Collective UK member and co-founder of the Staffordshire Film Collective.