“Florian’s Last Climb” selected to screen at the Noida International Film Festival, India
Jan 2021 22

“Florian’s Last Climb has been selected to screen at the Noida International Film Festival in India. The festival, like most in the world during these difficult times, has moved on-line and will play this weekend with awards held on Sunday the 24th. Good luck to all my fellow film makers!

“Florian’s Last Climb” selected to screen at the London International Documentary Festival
Jan 2021 08

“Florian’s Last Climb” has been selected to screen at the London International Documentary Festival. A BAFTA recognised festival, LIDF is London’s oldest and largest documentary festival and has been described by documentarian Brigitte Berman as “one of the most important film festivals in the world”. This is exciting news for me both because it marks “FLC’s” UK premiere and because I had the honour of screening here before with my documentary “Sweep”. I remember seeing Martin Scorsese’s simple but masterful documentary there, “Letter to Elia” about his childhood hero Elia Kazan, and sharing drinks at an after party with David Cronenberg’s producer. Like most other festivals, LIDF has had to go on-line this year but expect a challenging line-up.go to story

Jan 2021 03

Not especially Christmassy, not particularly pertinent to the new year, here’s a recent music video I designed for the British-German DJ duo “M-22” – “Think About Us”. The great thing about it is that 90% of the effects in it are in-camera. Yes, we actually chopped the car in half and yes that mad explosion of goo at the end actually happened; it’s called “elephant toothpaste” in common parlance and is a mixture of 35% proof Hydrogen peroxide, liquid soap, food dye and a yeast catalyst. Along with the director, I was the only one on set when we chucked the catalyst in and had about 10 seconds to clear before being carried away in a molten tide of chemical effluence…