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About Me

After being sidetracked for twenty years I sold my flat in December 2004 and started acting and making films full-time.

This is my acting showreel.My short 'The Liberator' starred Mel Stephenson and Ben Shockley. It's a tongue-in-cheek martial arts actioner in which rival factions compete for possession of an advanced handgun. The core of the film is a four minute fight sequence choreographed by Independent Stunts and featuring Mel's amazing martial arts skills - currently doing fairly well on YouTube.My first feature 'Bloodmyth' stars Shelley Halstead as Juliet Corman, instructor for a survival training company, who invites her sister Holly (Natalie Clayton) along to the first course in a new centre in woodland in Kent, not knowing that waiting for them is a killer experimenting with ancient Celtic methods of human sacrifice. One by one, their companions are killed and Jules and Holly left to deal with the killer alone. It's been described by its editor Ross Boyask as 'Deliverance meets Halloween'. It was shot over two weeks in Kent woodland, and at the bottom of a garden. There's a terrific ensemble cast who also doubled as crew during the shoot. Here's the trailerCurrently working on action horror screenplay Blood for the Hunter. Supernatural western script Mystery Arizona is in the pipeline as well as martial arts actioner Storm in a Quiet Place. Two much bigger projects biding their time. Anyone want to give me money?I'm playing Axel in action thriller Ten Dead Men from Modern Life? and Alan in Ken Colley's feature directing debut Greetings, which should both get industry screenings this year.I also write for theatre, winning a Best of the San Francisco Fringe Festival award in 2006 for my fifth show there since 2001.

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Power to the Pixel

On October 26 I attended the Power to the Pixel forum on digital distribution at the BFI.   To be honest, I expected to be a bit bored.  I wasn't.  Far from it, in fact.  ...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:25:00 GMT

I finally got to be one of the Ten Dead Men

I went down to Brighton the other week and spent some time in Ross Boyask's garden falling over plantpots and some more in a barn next to the A23 doing various scenes including Axel's death.I had lots...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:46:00 GMT

Comedy mockumentary trailer on YouTube now

The new re-edit of my gangster mockumentary trailer, set amongst San Francisco's Russian mob, is now on YouTube. With Ben Shockley as Little Tony Petrovski.The Petrovski Inheritance
Posted by on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:22:00 GMT

I love you more than Tony Soprano

I've pretty much run out of money. Cue desperate search for work. I've been to a couple of castings recently, one for a sad Muller yoghurt commercial and one for a short film. I didn't get either. ...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:17:00 GMT

Bloodmyth

After good responses at the test screening, despite technical problems which nearly drove me insane, I'm now fixing up the grading and the sound. I have two small European festivals interested in see...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:55:00 GMT

Bloodmyth

At the moment I'm rushing to finish a version of my feature film 'Bloodmyth' for a test screening at The Chambers bar in Folkestone on Monday.  It's time to find out if the film works and if the ...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 02:17:00 GMT