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FILM FESTIVALS

My films have been Official Selections and screened at the following film festivals…

• Kinoskop International Festival of Analog Experimental Cinema // Live Soundtrack national tour and film festival event // Serbia 2023

• Kent Filmmakers Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival // UK 2023

• Gaumont-British Films Screening Event // Empire Cinema, Sandwich // UK 2022

• Folkestone Triennial 2021 // Folkestone Fringe Artist Film Screenings, Harbour Screen // UK 2021

• Strangelove Festival // UK 2020

• Folkestone Reads: Modern Nature // Creative Folkestone // UK 2020

• Following the Light // Lizard Lighthouse, Cornwall // UK 2020

• Dresdner Schmalfilmtage // Germany 2019 // Nominated: International Super 8/16 Film Award.

• Strangelove Time-based Media Festival // ‘Kent in Focus’ programme // UK 2019

• Deptford Cinema Film Festival // UK 2019

• Exploding Cinema // The Cinema Museum, London // UK 2019

• Hyperdrive Sc-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival // UK 2018 // Winner: Best Visual Effects. Nominated: Best Music.

• Swale Film Festival // UK 2018

• Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival // UK 2018

• Newcastle Film Festival // UK 2018

• Gulbenkian Canterbury film programme // UK 2018

• Art Walk Porty / At the Fair // UK 2018

• Hermetic International Film Festival // Italy 2018 // Nominated: Best Experimental Film, Best Music.

• Folkestone Quarterhouse film programme // UK 2018

• Hythe Festival // UK 2018

• Festival Alto Vicentino // Italy 2018

• Dorking Film Festival // UK 2018

• Cefalu Film Festival // Italy 2018

• Cheriton Light Festival // UK 2018

• Cannes Film Festival // France 2017

• Kent Film Festival // UK 2017 // Winner: Best Experimental Film; Best Sound.

• 51zero Festival // UK 2017

• Berlin Experimental Film Festival // Germany 2017

• Folkestone Fringe // UK 2017

• London Experimental // UK 2017

• Strangelove Festival // UK 2017

• Hellfire Film Festival // UK 2017

• Drunken Film Festival // UK 2017

• Regard Independant // France 2017

• Experimental Superstars // Serbia 2017

• Whitstable Biennale // UK 2016

• Hellfire Film Festival // UK 2016

• Fear in the Fens // UK 2016

• Coastal Currents Arts Festival // UK 2015

• Brighton Pride Arts & Film Festival // UK 2015

• InHOUSE Festival // UK 2015

• Hrizantema Horror Film Festival // Serbia 2014

• Nightpiece Film Festival // Edinburgh Fringe // UK 2014

• Canterbury Festival // UK 2013

• Portobello Film Festival // UK 2011

• Shorts Festival, Stratford Picturehouse // UK 2011

• Berwick Film & Art Media Festival // UK 2011

• British Shorts Berlin // Germany 2011

• Art Monastery Short Film Festival // USA 2011

• Whitley Bay Film Festival // UK 2011

• London Independent Film Festival / UK 2010

• Lancashire Film Festival // UK 2010

• Saltburn Film Festival // UK 2010

• InCINEracion Film Festival // Spain 2010

• Electric Shadows Beijing // China 2010

• Szeged Super 8 Film Festival // Hungary 2009

• Quickflick Film Festival // UK 2009

• Workhouse Festival Cinema // UK 2009

• British Shorts Berlin // Germany 2009

• British Shorts Budapest // Hungary 2009

• Euroshorts Festival // Poland 2009

• B:Fest Luton Festival // UK 2009

• Bang Short Film Festival // UK 2009

• Strawberry Fair Film Festival // UK 2009

• Windsor Festival // UK 2009

• Workhouse Festival // UK 2009

• Kinofilm Festival // UK 2009

• Collision Festival // UK 2008

• Salford Film Festival // UK 2008

• Videophile Festival // UK 2008

• Flicker Festival // USA 2008

• Curta 8 Super 8 Film Festival // Brazil 2008

• Szeged Super 8 Film Festival // Hungary 2008

• Canterbury Festival // UK 2008

CINEMA ON THE MOVE

• Sol Cinema // UK 2013

• Vintage Mobile Cinema // UK 2011

• Cannes in a Van // France 2010

FILM NIGHTS

My films have also screened at the following film nights and events…

• Alt. Shorts, Artsfest Birmingham, Bacon Street Project, Braine Hownd, Cabaret Sorbet, Caligari's Movie Extravangaza, Chapter Moviemaker, Cinema Rivalry, Cinematheque Avec, Cinematopia, Cinema Variete, Cinesaurus Film Society, Discussions on Film, Eat My Short Shorts, Experimental Film Fest Middlesbrough, Film Bohemia, Film Chess, Film Den, The Film Lab, Final Cut Brighton, The Forest Screenings, Gurning in Slow Motion, Halloween Happening Huddersfield, Imagination Collaborations, Intimate Queer Cinema @ Folkestone Pride, KinoKulture, Kino Shorts, Low-Def Film Night Edinburgh, Magic Cinema, Making Tracks, Mini Cine Picture Show, Moviebar Brighton, Near/Far, New Volta Film Club, Oblong Screenings, The Pictures, Phoenix Cinema, Pink Flamingo Cabaret Club, Plunge, Rotoreliefs, Secret Shorts, Secret Movie Night, Shorts Showcase Norwich, Son of Moviebar, Showroom Shorts, Soup & Cinema, Striplite, Tea, Toast and Ghosts, Threads, 24:7 Manchester, Underground Cinema Ireland, Urban Forest Screenings, Video Art Film Club, Walthamstow Short Film Club, Wolstenholme Screenings, Whirlygig Cinema.

TELEVISION SCREENINGS

• The Short Film Show // Sky television // UK 2019

• Movie Nightmares // Showcase, Sky television // UK 2016-17

• Ronke // Showcase, Sky television // UK 2011-16

• Super Shorts Light // My Channel, Sky television // UK 2012

• Super Shorts // My Channel, Sky television // UK 2011-12

• Short & Sweet // Propeller, Sky television // UK 2011

• Transfera TV // Canal Autor // Spain 2009

• 'No One Reads Poetry' // Video Nation, BBC // UK 2004

radIO INTERVIEWS

• BBC Georgey Tonight (national radio), Talk Radio, BBC Radio Kent, Academy FM, Kent Creative radio show, Channel Radio // UK 2017-18

WRITING...

POETRY COLLECTIONS

• The Hospital // Cultured Llama // 2018

• Drop Anchor // Erbacce Press // 2008

• The Red Book // Leaf Books // 2007

MAGAZINES // SMALL PRESS

• Poems have been published in: Acorn, Awen, Bard, Caduta, The Cannon's Mouth, Chroma, The Coffee House, Concrete Meat Sheet, Conversation Poetry Quarterly, Decanto, The Delinquent, Dwell Time, erbacce, Gloom Cupboard, Inside Out, Iota, Isibongo, Harlequin, The Journal, The Measure, Neon Highway, Nthposition, Open Wide Magazine, Parameter, Poetry Greece, Poetry Monthly, Pulsar, Pyramid, Sarasvati, Secret Attic, South, Steep Street Journal, Time Haiku, The Ugly Tree, Upstairs At Duroc, Writers’ Forum, Writers’ News, Writing Magazine, X Magazine.

• Poems have also appeared online at: The Cadaverine, Poetry Kit, Snakeskin, Zygote in my Coffee.

POETRY PRIZES

• Erbacce Prize // Final short list // 2011

• Canterbury Poet of the Year // Final short list // 2009

• Ottakars/Faber & Faber Kent Poet of the Year // Winner // 1998

• Ottakars/Faber & Faber National Poet of the Year // Final short list // 1998

• Streetlevel Poet of the Year // Nominated // 1998

• Ottakars/Faber & Faber Kent Poet of the Year // Winner // 1997

LITERARY FESTIVALS

• Readings and signings at: Canterbury Festival, Dead Hoarse Festival, Faversham Literary Festival, Folkestone Book Festival, Words on Waves Whitstable.

PUBLISHED INTERVIEWS

• Folkestone Status, Hellfire Film Festival, Kent Online, Kent Live, Kent Messenger, The Looker, Folkestone Herald, Hastings Observer, Poetry Kit, Hastings Online Times, Writers' Forum, Writers' News, Writing Magazine, e-poets.

JOURNALISM

• Articles published in: Astronomy Now, Daily Telegraph, Telegraph Online, Cruise International, World of Cruising, Cruise Ports & Destinations, Cruise Planner, Cruise News, Kent Online, Folkestone Foghorn, Saga Magazine, Seoul Times, Sky At Night, Travellers News, Navigator online, Work Boat World.

• Lead Copywriter for Saga Cruises. Editor of Cruise News magazine and Britannia Club Newsletter, copywriter of brochures, press advertisements, emails, websites and social media.

art exhibitions

• Dead Hoarse Festival // Pie Factory Margate // UK 2018

• Cheriton Light Festival // UK 2018

• Open // New London Gallery // UK 2011

• London Word Festival // UK 2009

• Prospect // Ashford Gallery // UK 2006

ARTS FUNDING

• Filmmaking grant: seed funding // Shepway Council // 2011

• Prospect/Vanishing Shores // Arts Council England // 2006

PHYSICAL MEDIA

• Limited blu ray release of Stella Erratica // Roundeye // 50 numbered signed steelbooks // UK 2020

• Limited DVD release of five short films // Bagazine // 100 handmade, numbered signed editions // USA 2015

FILM AWARDS

• NOMINATED International Super 8/16 Film Award // Dresdner Schmalfilmtage 2019

• NOMINATED The Short Film Show Awards 2019

• WINNER Best Visual Effects // Hyperdrive Film Festival 2018

• NOMINATED Best Music // Hyperdrive Film Festival 2018

• NOMINATED Best Experimental Film // Hermetic Film Festival 2018

• NOMINATED Best Music // Hermetic Film Festival 2018

• WINNER Best Experimental Film // Kent Film Festival 2017

• WINNER Best Sound // Kent Film Festival 2017

outdoor projections

• Pop Up Brighton // UK 2017

• BBC 'Big Screens' // BBC // set up in 21 locations nationwide UK 2010-11

• Light Night Leeds // Lumen // UK 2009

• Synch Festival @ the Technopolis, Athens // Greece 2009

STREAMING

• The Short Film Show on Amazon Prime • Deptford Cinema On Demand • Strange Love Online 2020

Film JUDGING

• Folkestone Independent Film Festival 2025, Executive Director

• Folkestone Independent Film Festival 2023-2024, Executive Director

• Folkestone International Film & TV Festival 2022, Festival Director

• Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival 2021, Selection Committee and Short Films Official Juror

• Hellfire Film Festival 2018, Official Judge

Film CURATING

• Folkestone Independent Film Awards 2023-2024 // Executive Director

• Strangelove Festival // 2020

• Folkestone Pride // 2019

• Strangelove Festival // 2017

• Whitstable Biennale // 2016

• Canterbury Festival // 2013