Referees
Neil Ben
BVS Training, former Head of Production
Tel: 079 563 76 239
Herr Marcus Otto
General Manager of Teleteam München
Meranerstr. 11, Ottobrunn-Germany
Tel: 004989 60824032
Employment History
Writer & Director (Freelance)
UK / Europe / US
2021 - Present
Working as a freelance writer and director across film and television, developing original projects and collaborating with international production companies, partners and representation.
- Directed the feature film Baghead (StudioCanal / The Picture Company), adapted from my short film
Baghead received an international
Writer & Director (Freelance)
UK / Europe / US
2021 - Present
Working as a freelance writer and director across film and television, developing original projects and collaborating with international production companies, partners and representation.
- Directed the feature film Baghead (StudioCanal / The Picture Company), adapted from my short film
Baghead received an international theatrical release and went on to reach the Netflix Top 10 globally
- Ongoing development of film and TV projects across the UK, Europe and the US
- Focus on elevated genre storytelling with strong commercial appeal
August 2008 - February 2021 (Freelance)
European Medicines Agency (London, UK)
Video Editor and Multimedia Consultant
In this role, I helped the Agency to:
-Create an in-house multimedia department.
-Start internal and external streaming services that provide with more than 4000 hours a year of live content.
-Produce close to 200 high-quality videos a year with internal resources.
-Manage its Youtube channel, with over 1400 videos and 300k views.
-Design and implement the multimedia infrastructure (i.e. automated camera systems, edit suites, ingest and archiving solutions) at its Canary Wharf Premises.
-Develop the production cycles with the Communication team to achieve the Agency's communication strategy goals.
2007 (Freelance)
Meridian Videos (Madrid)
Screenwriter-producer-editor
Writing the script, producing, directing and editing the awareness video "Entre todos podemos: Detección de los malos tratos en la infancia" ("Together we can: recognizing child abuse") produced in association with Save the Children, AMAIM, ANAR Foundation and FAPMI in Spain, to be released on early 2008
October 2004 - March 2008
BVS Training Ltd (London UK)
Video editor-compositor, DVD author, Flash designer.
BVS is the leading provider of video based training solutions for the care sector, providing DVD, CD-ROM and printed resources to over 60% of the care homes in the UK. As the Senior Video Editor I was responsible for the post-production of all the resources produced in the company. This included the editing and DVD authoring of over 50 titles, as well as the design of the company's CD-ROM.
Selected credits include:
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults.
Editing two highly acclaimed videos on elder abuse, with factual information and dramatic reconstructions of abuse in care home and domcare settings.
Flash Designer.
Designing the company's interactive CD-ROM in Flash using actionscript. This included information and clips on every single BVS product, as well as password protected areas to title related lesson plans and printable resources.
October 2001-July 2004 (full time)
Teleteam München
Video editor-compositor and DVD author.
Teleteam München is a German production company that offers video services mainly for corporate clients, including covering live conferences, internal communications for the pharmaceutical and medical industry and some broadcast production.
Selected credits include:
In Freiem Fall Documentary pilot for Bayerischer Rundfunk following the lives of a group of free-fall parachuting divers over a six month period.
MSD Sharp & Dohme
internal
Organising shoots, operating second camera and editing videos for this leading pharmaceutical company.
February 2001 - September 2001 (full time)
Stream Event AG (Germany)
Video editor
Selected credits include:
Kick - it
Editing three music programs with interviews, performances and reports on the music scene.
Derag Series
Editing and encoding promotional videos for this hotel chain to stream on the internet.
Reise Trommel Series
Creating nearly a hundred short sequences on different holiday destinations for the internet.
Equipment
I can edit in Avid or Premiere Pro in my 4K editing suite.
Additional Information
Industries
Commercials, Film, Post Production, TV
Programme Types
Business, Corporate, Documentary, Drama: Feature Film, Drama: Short Film, Education, Events, Music, New Media, Outside Broadcast, Travel, Youth
Specialisms
Cinema/Film, New Media