THE BOXING BISHOP
Director, Producer | 19', 2022
When youth violence in the North London town of Edmonton escalated to a fatality a month, a local Archbishop made the bold suggestion that young people in the area throw more punches. Almost 20 years on, the boxing club he established and runs has become an iron-clad and iron-fisted community, where he’s turned lives around through his work both in and outside of the ring.
THE CURTAIN
Self-shooting Director, Editor | 7', 2022
Thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, three generations of Ukrainian women relay their memories of three distinct stages of the USSR, and the three decades since its fall. Filmed in the year before Ukraine would have to fight anew for independence, the women’s memories of bygone eras ring with devastating relevance, and their hopes for the future take on stinging new significance.
Festivals:
Manchester Film Festival
Festivals:
GlobalGirl Media Film Festival (Nominee: Best Documentary; Best International Film; Best Director)
FICIMAD (Winner: Best Documentary Editing)
Tampere Film Festival
EFN Short Film Festival
Sunday Shorts Film Festival
Little Wing Film Festival
Sunderland Shorts Film Festival
London Migration Film Festival
LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN'S AID
Director, Producer | 3', 2021
Short film for Latin American Women's Aid (LAWA), the only organisation and refuge for Latin American women in the UK. Highlighting, through the stories of the women they work with, how LAWA offers not only
a safe space and support, but a community and home away from home.
Commissioned and executive produced by Media Trust.
STRANGE SIGNS
Self-shooting Director-Producer, Editor | 23', 2021
Awards:
Finalist: Charity Film Awards 2023
Three deaf women with migrant backgrounds relate, in their own words and signs, their stories of identity, access and ability in the UK. Weaving their diverse, intersectional experiences, this short documentary offers three distinct accounts of what it means to be a deaf migrant woman in hearing, British society.
SKLEP
Self-shooting Director, Editor | 2', 2021
A short film charting the nostalgic memories and present day experiences of Eastern Europeans in East London, through the lens of Polish skleps [shops]. Commissioned by Satellite Films.
Sklep is an extract from H Is For Hostile Environment, an artists film by artist Edwin Mingard and researcher Dr Keren Weitzberg, produced by Elizabeth Benjamin, © Satellite Films
MISHA
Self-shooting Director, Editor | 2', 2021
Housebound amputee and former USSR sailor, Misha, laments his lot, reminisces over his past, and longs for a grandson-in-law. Shortlisted for Encounters Film Festival’s Depict! competition, receiving a special mention for the Royal Photographic Society Cinematography Award.