Sunflowers
Born in the year of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, ten-year-old Eri has grown up in the shadow of the event that defined her hometown, despite having no recollection of it herself. When her family joins a local sunflower planting group who are hoping to rid the soil of toxins, she begins to learn more about the memories of those around her. Shortlisted for Best Short at Big Sky festival, official selection for Rising Sun Festival.
Documentary film | Creative Producer | Made with Whalebone Films for Topic
A Vision of Justice
A Vision of Justice tells the story of Fabiola Campillai, who was brutally blinded by police on the way to her factory job during Chile's 2019 uprising. Indigenous, working class, disabled and a mother of three, she is an unlikely candidate for the Chilean senate; yet encouraged by her community she fought fiercely to gain a seat, winning by a landslide vote. The film captures her first year in senate, bringing the voices of Chile’s marginalised to be heard by the country’s notoriously elitist political classes.
Documentary film | Producer | Made with Whalebone Films for Al Jazeera Witness, supported by Pulitzer
Land of Fires
In a town in Naples, Italy, a band of local residents have formed a vigilante justice group in the face of a rising death toll attributed to the illegal dumping of toxic waste. Can this unlikely group of ill-equipped grassroots activists make a difference in the face of the infamous ‘Camorra’ (an Italian criminal organisation) and industrial corporations who are poisoning their land? Official selection for British Shorts festival, Berlin.
Documentary Film | Creative Producer | Made with Whalebone Films for Topic
The Stimming Pool
A pub bathroom where you change your mask, a shapeshifting drifter, a dinner scene full of bizarre and unfathomable rituals… The Stimming Pool is an experimental - at times fantastical - hybrid feature film, co-created by a collective of autistic artists who invite you into a neurodiverse world within the undulating logic of neurotypical environments.
Supported by The Welcome Trust, Queen Mary University and Film London, this feature film is the first of its kind. Where before in any cinema concerning autism, autistic people are the subjects, here they are the drivers of the entire production and as a result we are taken on a visceral journey through the world as experienced - literally and metaphorically, consciously and subconsciously - by them.
Winner of Best Documentary at Ice Docs (Iceland). Official selection at BFI London Flim Festival (UK), CPH:DOX (Denmark), Camden IFF (US), Melbourne IFF (Australai), Sydneyy IFF (Australia), DOXA FF (Canada), DMZ IFF (South Korea), Folkestone Documentary FF (UK), Pravin Ljudski FF (Bosnia), Popli FF (Italy), Verzio FF (Hungary), Cambridge FF (UK), Leeds FF (UK).
Hybrid documentary feature film | Production Manager | Made with Whalebone Films
Captives on the Frontline
Shot in Northern Iraq, this film explores the unbreakable brotherhood that grew between two Yezidi boys while they were kept as child soldiers under ISIS. Now, in a rare insight, they come together to discuss all that was unspeakable during their captivity, and to try to figure out what the future holds for them in a country that refuses to acknowledge their ongoing plight. This film won Best Short Documentary at the Best Shorts awards and was a vimeo staff pick.
Documentary Film | Creative Producer | Made with Fat Rat Films for Amnesty International
The Last Taboo
A father who chooses not to live with his children is still a father. But, in the eyes of many, a mother who chooses not to live with her kids is a monster. Three women who made the decision to mother from afar tell their stories. At a time when there’s growing acceptance for alternative family models, why does the idea of non-custodial motherhood still have the power to shock and appall? This film was screened at the BFI and a Vimeo staff pick, it went viral with over a million views.
Documentary film | Creative Producer | Made with Whalebone Films for Topic
Canary
Roxanne and Rachel have been forced to leave their homes, children and jobs due to what they believe are severe allergies to wifi and other electronics. As they each seek refuge in increasingly remote areas of the UK and beyond, they wait in fear for the impending roll out of 5G, which they believe will alter their lives immeasurably.
Documentary Film | Creative Producer | Made with Whalebone Films for Topic
After Asbestos
After Asbestos follows three octogenarians as their beloved town, Asbestos, Canada, teeters on the brink of huge change. Each still has their heart in the mine that brought their town so much prosperity and defined each of their lives, but now the reputation of asbestos as a toxic substance is causing the town to vote on changing its name. An intimate portrait of how it feels to watch everything you’ve known and loved change as you enter life’s final chapter.
Documentary Film | Creative Producer | Made with Whalebone Films for Topic
Japan’s Wartime Sex Slaves
An Unreported World episode following Grandma Lee, one of the last survivors of the so-called “comfort stations” in wartime Asia, where hundreds of thousands of women were forced into sexual slavery and exploitation by the Japanese military. Now the 92-year-old campaigner wants justice before it’s too late. Presented by Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
Documentary Films | Producer | Made with Whalebone Films & ITN for Channel 4
The Business of Death
Gary is a showman, a joker, and an expert in death. At 15 he left school and the council estate he grew up on to become an undertaker. Across six years The Business of Death, follows Gary as he builds a funeral business with his best friend Wayne, overcoming the odds to become the heart of his multi-faith community in South London. Then COVID-19 hits. As the bodies pile up around them, Gary and Wayne are forced to question how they - and the rest of the world - will cope with the business of death in this brutal new reality. In turns shocking, funny and heartbreaking, The Business of Death exposes the hidden frontline of undertakers during the pandemic, and mines the rich humanity of grief, from a very personal perspective. A short version of this feature film was produced for Channel 4 news.
Documentary Films | Creative Producer | Made with Fat Rat Films & ITN for Channel 4
Killer Robots
A collection of AI experts, humanitarians, former soldiers and recent targets explore the grave dangers humanity is facing in the rapid development of autonomous weapons systems.
Documentary Film | Director/ Producer | Made with Fat Rat Films for Amnesty International
On Our Doorstep
On Our Doorstep delves deep into a side of the refugee crisis that rarely reached the press. With NGOs blocked by red tape and with the absence of any positive action by French or British authorities, the film is a behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary grassroots movement that rose up to aid the refugees in the Calais Jungle, and the community that sprang up there, before it was forcefully demolished.
This is the story of what happens when young and inexperienced citizens are forced to devise systems and structures to support 10,000 refugees; and are left unguided to face the moral and emotional conflicts, blurred lines and frequent grey areas of giving aid to vulnerable people. www.onourdoorstepdoc.com
Documentary Film | Producer | Made with SE15 Productions, distributed by Dartmouth Films
The Bold Fishermen
The Hastings fish market has closed, the lorries from France that would normally fill up with fresh fish every morning have stopped coming. The local pubs and restaurants are shut. The world is on coronavirus lockdown. But for Europe’s largest beach-launched fishing fleet, there is no stopping them.
Filmed during lockdown using a mixture of multiple fixed go-pro cameras and evocative shots of the boats going out to sea, an elderly fisherman reflects on the adaptable nature of the Hastings fishing industry in light of Covid-19.
Documentary Film | Producer | Made with Whalebone Films for BBC Arts