In 2014, I created a Showreel from Scratch for Aimee Barrett. When we first talked about what scenes I would write for her, we discussed a specific goal, which was summed up in my notes as: ‘BBC Drama’. Just two years later, her new showreel cut is made entirely out of

My short film, ‘Mess‘, which is a remake of the very first short film I made, won a Best of Festival award at the Nassau Film Festival 2016 this past weekend. I am proud of this film. We shot it in one day. No crew; no budget, just me and

Here’s a showreel I created for Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts graduate Virginia Lee. I’ve created heaps of showreels but this is definitely one of my favourites. Virginia is a great talent – versatile and natural on screen. Excited to see how her career progresses in coming years. Have a

I wrote the first draft of ‘Mess’ when I was seventeen, and shot it when I was 19. Over a decade later, I decided to remake it. It’s exciting to me that a few film festivals have deemed this experiment worthy of screening. ‘Mess’ (the new version) stars two of

It was only a few years ago when the idea of making from scratch scenes for a showreel was seen as a bad thing. This was back in the days when companies were rehashing scenes from movies and TV shows and shooting them in a rented office on the back

As the old saying goes: you can’t polish a turd. So many actors have gone wrong on their reels purely because of the material. Whether it’s stealing a scene from a show like ‘Doctors’*, or through writing (or getting someone to write) a scene that does not suit the needs