CURRENT PROJECTS
“In Absence" Short Film: (Completed)
A quiet son on the cusp of adolescence becomes the fragile glue holding his shattered family together after his mother’s sudden death—until a heart-wrenching misunderstanding forces him to shoulder the blame in his grieving father’s existential standoff with a silent God.
A short film Starring Christopher James Baker (Ozark, True Detective, Boy Swallows Universe), Jack LaTorre (The Lost Flowers of Alice Heart, Runt, Kid Snow), Ron Kelly (Joe vs Carol, Darby & Joan, Safe Harbour), Murran Kain (Elvis, Good Cop/Bad Cop).
Winner Best Drama Film Ignite Film Festival 2024 (UK)
Winner Grand Jury Prize for Best Actor - Christopher James Baker, Richmond International Film Festival 2025 (USA)
Winner Grand Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Cast, Richmond International Film Festival 2025 (USA)
Nominee Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film, Richmond International Film Festival 2025 (USA)
Semi-Finalist Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival 2024 (Oscar Qualifying, USA)
Official Selection Carmarthen Bay Film Festival 2025 (BAFTA Qualifying, UK)
Nominated Best Actor - Christopher James Baker, Romford Film Festival 2025 (UK)
Nominated Best Score Romford Film Festival 2025 (UK)
Official Selection Romford Film Festival 2025 (UK)
Official Selection Heart of Gold Film Festival 2024 (AU)
Read the 5/5 UK Film Review
Christopher James Baker, Jack Latorre, Ron Kelly , Murran Kain
“Old Boys” Feature Film (In Development)
In 1962, a working-class English migrant struggling to belong in his new adoptive country of New Zealand joins a rural soccer team of fellow migrants with the impossible dream of making it to the country's most prestigious soccer tournament: The Chatham Cup. Battling against the class prejudice he thought he'd left behind (as well as his own personal demons), Irwin and his scrappy squad storm the tournament - making it to the final where they face an elite and undefeated city rival in what is still regarded as the greatest upset in the Cup's 100 year history.
Based on an unlikely true story….a period film with attitude.
The Damned United with the heart of Belfast meets the swagger of Lock Stock.
“IRIS” Feature Film (In Development)
When a joint Soviet-American nuclear test goes catastrophically wrong, a Soviet geochemist is framed for the death of an American colleague by the KGB handler she trusts as a father. Discovering that the visions she has been suppressing are a transmission from an unexplained satellite — older than human civilisation — she must find the only other person receiving it: the exiled father she betrayed to the KGB as a teenager, before both superpowers find him first.
The mystery of Contact and Arrival with the Cold War intrigue of The Lives of Others.
“The Believer” Feature Film (In Development)
After ripping off the wrong man - a violent mob enforcer, two young grifters hijack a dying pentecostal tent revival to ‘disappear’, one playing a charismatic faith healer, the other his loyal fixer. But when an apparent genuine miracle upends their con, the fixer’s conscience is awakened igniting a moral war between them as the enforcer closes in.
Foxcatcher and The Master meets the road movie vibes of Almost Famous.
"Merciful" [working title]. Feature Film (In Development)
Revealing the untold story of the redemption of Andrew Chan, the notorious ringleader of the Bali 9 heroin smuggling ring. Producers: Ben Field p.g.a (Let Hope Rise, Home & Away), Paul Nevison (The Evil Good, The I - Heart Revolution), Writers: Marc Furmie (Terminus, Harlem 58) & Shiyan Zheng (Terminus, Harlem 58).
