WRITER OF FILM, TV & RADIO.

The greatest challenge in life is not punching people who talk in cinemas in the back of the head.

CURRENT PROJECTS

IN DRAFT OR DEVELOPMENT

TV

The Bucca

A comedy-drama about immigrants finding a place to belong. Rudi is a South African immigrant at the tail-end of a messy break-up with his Cornish partner Kensa. Just as he is poised to return home, Kensa is diagnosed with bowel cancer and Rudi steps in to care for her, their son Ruan, and to keep her family’s business, the local cinema ‘The Bucca’ afloat.

Kill the Cuckoo

A dark comedy thriller about Rhona and Dougie Mackay, drifting thirty-something twins dragged home to Inverness to run their mother Anne’s funeral director shortly before her death only to discover that local gangster Curtis Conan has exploited their mother’s vulnerability and infiltrated her business as part of a black market organ stealing racket.

Sleeper

66-year-old Russian widow Yana’s quaint home counties retirement is upturned when her chemotherapy triggers dormant cold war post-hypnotic training as a Soviet sleeper agent.

The Russians Are Coming

The Gwynns, a destitute working class couple, fake their own deaths to escape their debt and impersonate oil oligarchs the Kolosovs, whose palatial abandoned Cornish summer retreat Wenna once cleaned.

Give You Up

Teenage control freak Tracy Rodda escapes her Cornish foster home and travels back to 1988 to put her birth parents on a track away from petty crime, drugs and alcohol abuse.

SHORT FILM

The Child

A psychological horror following Rick and Jodie, a grieving couple who escape on a roadtrip to Iceland to process their grief after Jodie suffers a miscarriage with their first child. They become trapped in the fog on a desolate gravel mountain F-road and are haunted by a spectral demon in the shape of a bald child with burned skin who follows them through the mist.

Monster Next Door

A dark comedy fantasy homage to Rear Window. The Tudor family are ethical human-friendly vampires hiding in suburbia who discover that their neighbour is a serial killer, and risk exposing their secrets to bring him to justice.

F*ck Cancer

A semi-autobiographical comedy short about the surreal experience of going through cancer diagnosis and surgery, stuck in the hospital in the run up to Christmas.

FEATURE FILM

Great White

Durban, South Africa. 1985. Musa Maduma, an apartheid activist battles a gigantic shark killing locals at a black-only beach, in spite of a bigoted government who refuse to acknowledge the problem.

Kill the Rabbit

Mary Poppins with more gun fights. An adventure about Gidgit, a cartoon-obsessed girl whose parents hires a trio of drifter ex-soldiers to protect their Cornish pub from extortionate criminals.