Biography
Born and raised in South East London I spent my youth playing a lot of football, listening to a lot of music and spending a lot of time “at the pictures” in the local ABC Cinema where I fell in love with film. After university I tried my hand as an actor and stand up comedian but ended up being a motorcycle courier. Realizing this would end in tears I headed out to Hong Kong to land a dream job as a writer-presenter-director on a music show. When the show ended I was snapped up by MTV as a promos director and fell in love with directing on locations all over the world. Next up Mumbai where I joined the creative team that set up India’s mega successful youth network Channel [v] for Star TV now Disney. My hugely talented team was arguably, responsible for inventing Indian youth culture, winning numerous Promax awards along the way. After a stint as Creative Director and Executive Producer I went back to my first love, directing and did an award winning urban travel series called Outhere and a national awareness series for U.N.AIDS.
Having fallen in love with all things Bollywood the obvious next step was to direct a feature. Eventually UTV Motion Pictures coughed up the money for The Goa Run and in 2014 we had rave reviews at Raindance in London. I became the first Brit to direct a Bollywood movie. But after an aggressive buyout of UTV by Disney, The Goa Run fell victim to corporate politics and shady accounting shenanigans. I am to this day embroiled in a David and Goliath battle with Disney for the right to gain access to my work, a situation described by a colleague as “a whole world of pain”. True dat.
