MFA (Master of Fine Arts), Film, Columbia University, New York
BA (Hons) English Literature, University of British Columbia, Canada
PGCertHE, Middlesex University
Languages Spoken
Learning & Teaching Interests
film directing and producing
screenwriting and script development
documentary theory and practice
sound design
Research Outputs & Interests
truth, ethics and reconstruction in the documentary film
the voice in the cinema, theory and practice
Deleuze and film theory
neo-formalist and cognitivist film theory and analysis
Current and Past Research Projects
Articles and chapters in edited books:
'Siren Song: The Narrating Voice in Two Films by Raúl Ruiz', Comparative Cinema, 1:3, 2013.
'Michael and Gertrud: Art and the Artist in the Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer' in Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts, eds. Steven Allen and Laura Hubner, Intellect Books: Bristol, 2012.
'The Creative Voice: Free Indirect Speech in the Cinema of Rohmer and Bresson', The New Soundtrack, 2:1, 2012.
'Vision, Volition, Re-Vision: Point of View in La Collectionneuse, Le Genou de Claire and Le Beau mariage', published in Rohmer et les autres, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007.
Conferences:
Film-Philosophy, King's College, London, September 2012, paper entitled 'Possible Ends: Suicide and Grace in Jansenist Narrative Cinema'
Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts, University of Winchester, September 2009, paper entitled "Dreyer's Michael: Painting the Canvas of the Soul"
Screen Sounds: Sound in French Cinema, Kings College, London, April 2009, paper entitled "The Creative Voice: Free Indirect Speech in the Cinema of Rohmer, Resnais and Bresson"
Short Film Symposium, 50th Cork Film Festival, Ireland, October 2005, paper entitled "The Short Films of Eric Rohmer"
Practice-based research:
Producer on Forgiveness, feature documentary in development, director Elizabeth Stopford, White Rabbit Films, 2013.
Producer, editor, sound designer of short film The Ice Cream Van, dir. Shane Vahey, Apex Arts/Waltham Forest Arts Council.
in post-production
Sound designer of short film Goblin Market (2012), dir. Anna Blandford.
Encounters Film Festival, Bristol 2012
Sound designer of Burn My Body (2010), dir. Fyzal Boulifa, B3 Media/UK Film Council.
Official Selection, BFI London Film Festival 2010
Encounters Film Festival, Bristol 2010
London Short Film Festival 2011
Sound designer of Whore (2009), dir. Fyzal Boulifa, B3 Media/UK Film Council.
Grand Prix du Jury, Angers Premiers Plans 2010
Jury Prize for Best Short Film, London East End Film Festival 2010
Sound designer, Afternoon (2007), dir. Fyzal Boulifa, B3 Media/UK Film Council.
