Biography

I have directed award winning Short films, directed 30 broadcast documentaries,  and produced and co–wrote the BBC/Warp/Pathe feature film Grow your Own staring Oscar winning actress Olivia Coleman.
I recently Directed the Bill Nighy feature film, Sometimes Always Never that premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and has received critical acclaim and releases in the UK Australia, and the USA picking up rave reviews in the LA Times, Variety, Washington Post and the New Yorker.

Credits

More Than Time 1 episode View
Series   Role Year
-   Director 2020
Sometimes Always Never 1 episode View
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-   Director 2018
Day In The Life, A 1 episode View
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-   Director 2017
Winter's Tale, A 1 episode View
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-   Director 2016
3 Minute Wonder 3 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Episode 1   Director 2005
Episode 2   Director 2005
Episode 3   Director 2005

Other Credits

Grow Your Own. ( Co - Writer and Producer) FEATURE FILM View
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British gardeners at a Merseyside allotment feel resentment when some refugees are given plots of land at their site. BBC Films/Warp Films/Pathe Starring Eddie Marsan, Benedict Wong, Omid Djalili, Alan Williams, Olivia Coleman, Diveen Henry, Phil Jackson, John Henshaw, Sara Hadland. 2009
More Than Time (Director) Documentary View
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During Lockdown in Liverpool, anonymous messages about 'missing and memory' were left on an answer machine. These ghostly messages float above still photographs of an empty Liverpool. A poetic response to the COVID pandemic. The film was produced for Edge Hill's Institute for Creative Enterprise (I.C.E) Featured on Director's UK site 2020
A Winter’s Tale (Director) drama View
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Adapted by Frank Cottrell Boyce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fGD_mH0ZAM The film was commissioned by the British Council. as part of Shakespeare Lives 2016; an unprecedented global programme celebrating William Shakespeare’s work and his influence on culture, education and society on the 400th anniversary of his death. 2016
A Day In The Life (Director) 2017 View
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Short film – visual adaptation of a Beatle song. Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4xI_Xeowdo Won 1st prize at London Labour Film Festival Official selection Liverpool Short Film Festival 13 artists globally were approached to reimagine a track from the Beatles Sgt Pepper Album. The film was picked up by The Beatles and housed on their website and twitter account. The first time The Beatles have sanctioned a 3rd party project. 2017
Kiss Of Frost (writer director) drama View
Description Year
A treasure hunter and a bird watcher meet on a beach both in search of something from the past. 2020
Unloveable (Director) drama View
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A Morrisey look a like takes obbsesive Smith's fans on a guided tour of Morrisey's Manchester. But all is not as it seems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKEL8KLCxo 1998
Mersey Moments (producer / director) Documentary View
Description Year
Channel 4 Seeing the Beatles The Dock strike shirt worn by Robbie Fowler Memories of Racism in the 1950's 1996
Bloodsports For All (Producer/Director) Documentary View
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Channel 4 Two boys go hunting fro rats with terriers. 1995
Coast Of Soap Ships (Director) Documentary View
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Young people from Barrow, Cumbria make a poetic write to reply in response to channel 4\s The Secret Millionaire. https://vimeo.com/12014741 2010
Accelerate Director drama View
Description Year
A short film made from stills Accelerate – by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It’s a sci-fi yarn about a single Mum who shops at Lidl. Imagine Doctor Who working for the NHS. Its premise is that the woman finds away of making time pass more quickly, by selling some seconds out of every minute so that her days become “the edited highlights of themselves”. It was the perfect marriage of subject and medium – after all, what is a still photograph but a moment pulled out of the stream of time. 2009
In The Club (Producer/Director) Documentary View
Description Year
GRANADA– 5 part series about The Cavern, Wigan Casino, Erics, Cream 1999
The Beautiful North. (Producer/Director) Documentary View
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GRANADA- 5 part series about the works of ‘northern artists’ 1998
Tales From The Riverbank (producer/Director) Documentary View
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GRANADA– 5 part series with a bottom up look at Liverpool since the 60’s 1998
Cover Stories (Producer/Director) Documentary View
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GRANADA– 5 part series about the significant history of northwest record sleeve design. 1999
The World Of The End (Producer/Director) Documentary View
Description Year
GRANADA 30 minute film about the highly influencial fanzine The End. 1997
The Life Of Wylie (Producer/Director) Documentary View
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GRANADA A film about Liverpool Wah front man Pete Wylie Nominated for an RTS Award 1998
Cottage Cheese (Producer/Director) Documentary View
Description Year
Channel 4 Film about the practice of ‘Cottaging’ 1996

Skills

  • Arts
  • Music
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