The little white attic

https://twitter.com/RTSYorkshire1/status/1100865284779450368 My experimental film Footfalls has just won RTS Yorkshire St...

I’ve just read a very sad chapter in The Soul of an Octopus .  Female octopuses die a few months after laying their eggs—they spend all ene...

Before going to the main point, I’d like to say that The Soul of an Octopus is a very good book. It is less about octopus facts than about ...

Last year I didn’t write a word about the Oscars.  It was a bad year. Of the 9 films that were nominated for Best Picture, I haven’t seen C...

I’m on a break, after finishing filming on Monday night 18/2.  Currently reading The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery. There are lots...

1/ This is a scene I did last year for Directing Workshop: I wrote, directed, and edited it. Cinematographer was my classmate Frances Fa...

North and South is, I think, a rather bland book. Elizabeth Gaskell’s main strength is in the individual scenes—I’m near the end, and the b...

Do lots of characters die in Victorian literature because people died easily, for numerous reasons, in Victorian times? Or because it’s a co...

“But he resented those words bitterly. They rung in his ears; and he was proud of the sense of justice which made him go on in every kindne...

This is a short film I made on the side, filmed in September and just completed now.  1-woman crew.  Colours of Her Mind from Hai Di...