Recent Work

I don’t feel that a showreel in the form of a montage of clips from programmes I have edited is going to tell you too much about the way I tell stories. I want to show you that I can create a narrative that is inthralling, interesting, entertaining and addictive to watch.

My favorite programmes to work on mix human behavior with animal behavior, humour with fascinating science & edge of your seat excitement with beautiful epic serenity.

Attached to each heading below are short clips around 10 minutes long from each of the programmes.

The mystery of how animals navigate over thousands of miles is something that has baffled scientists since ancient times. Today there are several contending theories, but none have a conclusive answer.

SHORTLISTED FOR BEST HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY AT GRIERSON 2007

Few today will have heard of Tom Harrisson but in a remarkable life, as adventurous as it was controversial, he was an explorer, pioneering anthropologist, guerrilla fighter, award-winning documentary film-maker and conservationist. He was also a public school rebel and Cambridge drop-out who could be arrogant, belligerent, egocentric, often drunk, and nearly always deliberately outrageous.

A fun film to work on. A lot of archive to bring to life. A huge life crammed into 60 minutes.

RIVER MONSTERS travels worldwide with host, biologist and extreme angler Jeremy Wade to solve freshwater mysteries, debunk these myths and track down these harrowing tales.

reeled in an average of more than a million households (1.05M) across its seven premiere episodes, making it the best-performing series in ANIMAL PLANET’s network history.

A spectacular journey across snowbound Eastern Russia in search of Amba the Russian Tiger. Russia colonized its wild east at the same time America colonized its wild west. But there was no gold rush here - the people came for furs. It’s hard to believe this part of Asia holds the largest contiguous population of tigers in the world - at least that's what they say.

WINNER best use of music and MERIT for Editing at IWFF 09

WINNER for Best Newcomer at Durban Wildtalk 09

Blending more traditional animal documentary style footage with dramatic narration, the series tells the story of the Whiskers, one of over a dozen families of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert being studied as part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, a long-term field study into the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of the cooperative nature of meerkats.

BEST IN SHOW Grand Trophy at New York Festivals 09

Nominated for Best Wildlife Programme at Banff 09

Short documentary Christmas with Dad follows 23-year-old AJ as he and his family prepare for the festive season and the arrival of an eighth child. With remarkable access and insight the film reveals a young man struggling to define his role as a father, haunted by his own childhood and facing an uncertain future.

WINNER of Best Scottish Short Documentary Edinburgh Film Festival 2008

Children’s programme made from BBC archive footage, twisted into a rollercoaster of information. Online voting took place to choose the favorite ‘Extreme Animal’.

WINNER for Best Children's Programme at Jackson Hole 07

Winner Best Children’s Programme at IWFF 08

Nick Baker’s back with an even stranger menagerie of bizarre and wonderful beasts for his second series of Weird Creatures. This time around Natural History’s dashing poster boy excels himself as he travels to the far flung reaches of the planet on his mission to reveal a selection of animals so unique you couldn’t make them up.

WINNER for Best Presenter lead Programme at The International Wildlife Film Festival 07

WINNER FOR BEST EDITOR AT JACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FILM FESTIVAL 07 & NOMINATED FOR BEST EDITOR AT WILDSCREEN 06

I was asked to create a promo for the new series ‘Life’. It was a great opportunity to cut stunning, groundbreaking photography in a creative and epic scale. A 7 minute journey into all aspects of ‘Life’.

New Bluechip natural history series from the bbc.