WRITER OF FILM, TV & RADIO.

The greatest challenge in life is not punching people who talk in cinemas in the back of the head.

CURRENT PROJECTS

IN DRAFT OR DEVELOPMENT

TV

The Russians Are Coming

The Gwynns, a destitute working class couple, fake their own deaths to escape their debt and impersonate oil oligarchs the Kolosovs, whose palatial abandoned Cornish summer retreat Wenna once cleaned.

Give You Up

Teenage control freak Tracy Rodda escapes her Cornish foster home and travels back to 1988 to put her birth parents on a track away from petty crime, drugs and alcohol abuse.

Sleeper

66-year-old Russian widow Yana’s quaint home counties retirement is upturned when her chemotherapy triggers dormant cold war post-hypnotic training as a Soviet sleeper agent.

SHORT FILM

F*ck Cancer

A semi-autobiographical comedy short about the surreal experience of going through cancer diagnosis and surgery, stuck in the hospital in the run up to Christmas.

Time Blind

Archie is an eight-year-old time traveller. A comedy-drama about a boy with undiagnosed ADHD and his parents struggles to understand his blindness to time.

Monster Next Door

A dark comedy fantasy homage to Rear Window. The Tudor family are ethical human-friendly vampires hiding in suburbia who discover that their neighbour is a serial killer, and risk exposing their secrets to bring him to justice.

Ladron (Thieves)

After a huge heist, Ruan and Dale are laying low in a remote Cornish fishing loft, waiting for their escape boat. Dale trusts his cunning friend with his life, but Ruan is plotting murder.

FEATURE FILM

Great White

Durban, South Africa. 1985. Musa Maduma, an apartheid activist battles a gigantic shark killing locals at a black-only beach, in spite of a bigoted government who refuse to acknowledge the problem.

Kill the Rabbit

Mary Poppins with more gun fights. An adventure about Gidgit, a cartoon-obsessed girl whose parents hires a trio of drifter ex-soldiers to protect their Cornish pub from extortionate criminals.