From semi-finalist a month or two back, “Florian’s Last Climb” has been awarded a laurel for Official Selection at the Minikino Film Week 5, Bali International Film Festival, Indonesia which takes place this October. Many thanks to the festival for accepting the film and for inviting me out to attend. go to story

Some great news in – “Florian’s Last Climb” has received a Special Festival Mention at the 8th Bangalore Short Film Festival, India. Thank you so much to the festival for selecting our humble offering, and for the judges for further acknowledging the work. The great Werner Herzog may have once said that “prizes are for dogs and horses”, but it’s certainly no bad thing to be occasionally recognised, especially for the creative punt “FLC” was.

End of May on the set of “Epic” at the soon to be demolished Bedford Community Hall in Central London. Directing from Matt Zarb’s wonderfully deadpan script, I had a dream cast and crew. Amongst the customary head scratching and nail biting were moments of pure joy and stifled laughter behind the monitor as the actors delivered it with knobs on…

I’m thrilled to announce that “Florian’s Last Climb” has been accepted to screen at the 8th Bangalore Shorts Film Festival in the southern Indian state of Karnataka later this month. With its recent acceptance at Pune, it is heartening to discover that a story of an Austrian mountaineer disappearing in Corsica a hundred years ago makes for entertaining fodder for the good people of the India.go to story

Last night at the “Florian’s Last Climb” first UK screening – a cast and crew at BAFTA, Piccadilly. A magnificent night in the Princess Anne Theatre with 5.1 sound, surrounded by wonderful friends and family. A huge thanks to all of you who made the film possible and to all of you who came in support of it last night on a wet night in May. To those of you I missed in conversation, my apologies and sincerest thanks. Bravo!