Sometimes I direct, sometimes I produce, sometimes both.

I've worked for a range of organisations for over 25 years, including the ABC TV (where I trained in continuity and was on staff for many years); December Media; City Post Post Production; Granada Media; MCM Entertainment; Act 3 Animation, 9MM Commercials and Monash University.

My shorts have won over 50 awards, including an AACTA and screened at high profile film festivals such as Clermont Ferrand, Toronto, Palm Springs Shortfest, London BFI, Aspen Shortsfest, Stuttgart, Bradford Animation, SITGES and Annecy, and locally I've won awards at MIFF, St Kilda, Sydney, Flickerfest, Revelation and Adelaide Film Festivals. 

Currently I run a small digital media production company called Cherry Hands Media; a monthly writer's group called Bum Glue Club; I co-manage a creative and artist hub in St Kilda and I work part time with Monash University in the Portfolio of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) as a senior multimedia producer. I also write, and still work as an actor when time allows. 

I'm a two-time cancer survivor. Blind in one eye and a little deaf in one ear. I eat too much cheese. The facts are not necessarily related.

I live in St Kilda on Boonwurrung Country with my fella, our daughter and dog.

KEY CREDITS

Mr Chicken Goes to Mars - co-directed and produced with Leigh Hobbs

That's Me - web series with Leigh Hobbs - director/producer

Amissa Anima - short film - producer with Bernie Clifford

Half of Me - director

The Love Me or Die - animated trailer - producer with Stephen Hamacek

In Her Silence - short film - director/producer with Josie Wadelton

The Gallant Captain - animated short - producer/co-director with Graeme Base and The Lampshade Collective

Nullarbor - animated short - producer with The Lampshade Collective

Tanked - TV pilot / teaser - director/producer with Kerry Drumm

The Haplocks - animated short - producer/director - Emergint

The Wedge - ocassional director/additional material - Cornerbox/Channel 10

Skybus TV - regular travel/infotainment program - Immediacy Media Agency

TVC director - Freelance - 9mm Commercials

N for Nelly - award winnng short film

The Referees - Tropfest Finalist short film

Crazy Richard - Short Feature co-director

Many other short films, corporates, music videos, theatre coverage, segment TV, TVCs & TV pilots

TRAINING

Blue Heelers - Director's Attachment. Dir: Richard Jasek

Blue Heelers - Multi-camera directing with Chris Langman

AFTRS Single-camera directing - with Kathy Mueller

AFTRS Animation writing & directing - with Denis Tupicoff

RMIT Advanced Diploma of Professional Screenwriting 

RMIT Multimedia Studies

Swinburne Website and Multimedia Design

ABC Television - Producer Assistant and Continuity Training 

AFTRS - Production Management

Deakin University - Arts / Literature Degree (not completed)