Background

SCIENCE JOURNALISM

I graduated in with a BSc (hons) in Pathobiology (study of disease) from Reading University. This in-depth background in science helped me win work at BBC Horizon - the BBC's flagship science programme. But, as well as a strong science background I am also a fully trained journalist (NCTJ Portsmouth ) with wide experience on the Sunday Times foreign desk, Channel 4 Dispatches and BBC Newsnight. Many of my programmes have been a combination of these two skills - current affairs and science. At Horizon, my work focused on those areas of science making headlines such as cloning, Gulf War Syndrome and child murder.

DIRECTING

I have ten years experience making long-form documentaries such as Horizon and Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns. Over the last three years, both at home and abroad I have directed over ten hours of high quality television on DV, Digibeta and super 16. I have directed a range of programmes large and small with budgets from £16,000 to £160,000. I am as comfortable directing a drama reconstruction with actors, costume, make-up and full crew as I am shooting solo on a DSR500 or PD150.

I have directed in England, Europe and America (current I visa)

SELF-SHOOTING

I am very comfortable self-shooting. Budgetary demands meant we had two days digi-beta filming for Big Ideas that Changed the World – the remainder of the entire film was shot on PD170. I have a strong visual imagination. A bottle of fake blood, a researcher prepared to lie in –25 degree snow and some visual creativity made a convincing sequence of the Red Army striding forward.