Linus Roache, Ian Hart and captors, Blind Flight. Photo by Paul Chedlow © Paul Chedlow / Parallax Independent.
Gail Bettinson, Looks That Kill.
Frank Rolfe, Living On The Edge.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and John Furse, Groundswell: The Grassroots Battle For The NHS And Democracy 2014-2019.
production Highlights
I'm attracted by compelling, character-driven stories that have a universality in their themes and subject matter, that have 'something bigger' about them. (see Screenwriting/True Stories)
There are many ways to 'entertain' audiences. The most important thing is to grip them.
The following samples of my work - the cinema film Blind Flight, the TV documentary Looks That Kill, the cinema/TV documentary feature Living On The Edge and Groundswell: The Grassroots Battle For The NHS And Democracy - were highly emotional true stories. I involved the real people very fully in the creative process, defining dramatic and storytelling needs for them, getting their input, keeping them well informed and ensuring their satisfaction with the work.
Blind Flight 2004
Director/Writer/Executive Producer
The authorised feature film dramatisation of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy’s ordeal as hostages in Lebanon, based on their No 1 best-selling books An Evil Cradling and Some Other Rainbow, and and starring Ian Hart and Linus Roache.
This is a truly inspirational, moving, intimate and compassionate reading of these true events. 
****Empire, 2004
Looks that Kill 2000
Director/Writer/Creative Producer
First-ever TV documentary about a young woman suffering from the little known mental condition Body Dysmorphic Disorder, involving obsessive feelings of physical ugliness, acute self-mutilation and exceptional suicidalism.
Painfully honest, sometimes shocking, but ultimately hopeful. A truly absorbing piece of TV. *****Heat, 2000
Living on the Edge 1987
Producer/Writer/Co-Deviser
Made with director Michael Grigsby. A cinema/TV documentary feature about the post-War dreams of British working people and their sense of betrayal in the Thatcher era, mixing newsreels, old films, advertisements, pop music, and radio archives with present day actuality.
One of the most original documentaries to be shown on British national television during the 1980's.John Corner, The Art Of Record, 1996
GROUNDSWELL: THE GRASSROOTS BATTLE FOR THE NHS AND DEMOCRACY 2014-2019
Director/Writer/Producer/Filming/Editing
5 years in the making this insider's revelatory film follows the battle by ordinary people from across the social and political spectrum to save Britain's National Health Service (NHS) from covert takeover by the global free-marketeers who have dominated society for over 30 years.
This brilliant film portrays how powerful grassroots campaigning can be and what an extraordinary group of dedicated people are succeeding to achieve in altering policy on the NHS.Reuben Ramsey, The Hastings Independent