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I began making films as soon as my family got a camcorder around 1995, these ranged from a one man soap opera called Owain Street to stop-motion animation films made with my Robin Hood lego, only the former survives to this day and hopefully shall never be seen by anyone ever again…

Through the late 90s I started to collaborate on some very silly short films with my school friend Carl Morris, including spoofs such as Mission: Improbable and The Unthinkables (as well as the sadly unfinished, Back To The Fruit Shop).  This creative partnership lead to our Media Studies A-Level film Turnip (1999); an off-beat comedy about a killing spree that occurs in a house full of hippies after one wins a million pounds on a tv show called Get Rich Quickly.

In 2005 Morris and I shot an Arthurian epic, a ridiculously ambitious and simultaneously low-brow adventure called Basements & Bastards, which was the sequel to a film we’d made earlier called, um, Basements & Bastards, and not to be confused with the prequel we had made to that film which was called, er, Basements & Bastards 2.

Whislt studying at the University Of Wales, Aberyswyth I made a few films for their 48 Hour Film Competitions, winning in 2005 with my short film The Other Side, and once I graduated I animated a music video for the Cardiff band Attack + Defend.  This animation led to a commission for Channel 4’s Big Brother’s Little Brother in which I animated a one minute overview of A Week In The Big Brother House, and Dermot O’Leary pronounced my name incorrectly and, the following day, had to apologise because my mum phoned up to tell him off.

I then directed a couple more videos for Attack + Defend which were screened on ITV Wales, the BBC Cymru website and at the Swn Festival in 2007.  A couple of years later I also shot the Los Campesinos! video The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future.

In 2009 I experimented with the idea of doing a green screen film, using a blue bed sheet taped to a kitchen wall, I made a rather shoddy sci-fi centred around a cocksure idiot called Captain Neon.  A short while later I purchased a proper green screen and a massive workman’s light and made a still shoddy  but assuredly so, new episode of Captain Neon which ultimately lead to me convincing three proper actors to come in and play some roles in the increasingly bizarre web series (which remains – like many an online show – incomplete).

From 2010 to 2016 I worked full time as a video editor for a marketing company in South West London.

In 2016 I went freelance, using my redundancy pay to finance the short film Adam Meet Eve in 2017.

After moving to Derbyshire in 2019 – and following lockdown – I directed the short films Revenger (2024), My Place (2024) and North Western Blood (2024).

At the end of 2024 I was accepted onto BFI Film Hub Midlands ‘Stories To Shorts’ writers cohort, where I developed my short screenplay Ellipsis.

I have also directed music videos for Oxygen Thief, Non Canon, and Aidan Smith & His Indulgent Friends, alongside my own bands Giant Burger and Magic Mist.