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2004
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ME, MY SWAMI AND I
10 min
DigiBeta colour drama,
supported by Tower Hamlets Films Office
Anita Singh meets a guru at the supermarket.
She is amazed when he
levitates in front of her.
But is he really a
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* Oct 2004 Raindance East, Cutting East (London)
* July 2005 Digital Barcelona Film Festival (DiBa) (Spain)
* July 2005 Short Cuts Film Festival (Hyderabad, India)
* Aug 2005 Portobello Film Festival (London)
* Aug 2005 TromaFling Film Festival (Edinburgh)
* Aug 2005 Stratford-upon-Avon Digital Film Festival
* Sept 2005 Walthamstow Festival (London)
* Sept 2005 Mocha Film Club (Mumbai, India)
* Sept 2005 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival (USA)
* Sept 2005 Festival de Curtmetratges Baumann V.05 (Terrassa, Spain)
* Sept 2005 Bite the Mango Film Festival (Bradford)
* Oct 2005-Jan 2006 CON-CAN Movie Festival (Japan)
* Oct 2005 SoCal Independent Film Festival (USA)
* Oct 2005 CAN 2005 Leicester International Short Film Festival
* Nov 2005 Kino Karno Film Festival (London)
* Nov 2005 International Izmir Short Film Festival (Turkey)
* Dec 2005 Elefest Elephant & Castle Film Festival (London)
* Dec 2005 Portobello Film Festival Videocafé - Christmas Comedy Special (London)
* Dec 2005 Mood Indigo (Mumbai, India)
* Dec 2005 Festival du Cinéma de Paris (France)
* Jan 2006 Halloween Short Film Festival (London)
* Feb 2006 Cinequest Online Viewers' Voice Competition (San Jose, California)
* Feb 2006 Spiritual Film Festival (Goa, India)
* Sept 2006 Chili Film Festival as part of the Brick Lane Festival (London)
* Oct 2006 AOL Moviefone Short Film Festival (USA)
* Nov 2006 Performance Channel Encounters season 271 Sky 312 Telewest
in association with Encounters Short Film Festival (UK Television premiere)
* Dec 2006 London Film Makers' Convention
* Jan 2007 worldwide internet release (rental/download) by jaman.com
* Jan 2007 propeller TV Sky channel 195
* April 2007 released in Japan on mobile/cell phones by NTT DoCoMo
* Sept 2007-Aug 2008 broadcast on cable TV in Japan (video on demand)
* April 2008 Phangan Film Festival (Thailand)
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2003
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FLIRTING
WITH THE PAST
Feature
script
“I thought about the past and how it made him what he is, what we all
are.”
Kate works in telesales for a London newspaper and Alex is a successful
journalist. Recently engaged, their relationship is put to the test
when chance brings them face to face with two old flames.
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* Performed reading at Rocliffe New Writers Forum
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1999
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RACHEL’S CONFIDENCE
30 min
16mm colour drama, co-funded by Kodak Bursary
The summer heat and shared disappointment in love
draw Rachel and Richard together but is this the real thing or simply
an act of revenge?
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* BBC British Short Film Festival, UCI Empire
Leicester Square
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1996
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PRIDE
10 min
Super 16/35mm drama, funded by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of
England, North West Arts Board, Liverpool Moving Image Development
Agency
A youth fools his parents into thinking he is a
merchant banker while working as a lavatory attendant.
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* 1996 premiered at the 40th London International Film
Festival
* 1997 Merseyside Arts and Entertainment Awards, Best
New Talent Moving Image Category
* May 23 1997 UK Theatrical Release through Metro
Tartan distributors 3 weeks supporting Love and Other Catastrophes, Metro
Cinema London & Arena 7 Cinemas Manchester
* June 20 1997 1 week supporting Conspirators of
Pleasure, 051 Cinema Liverpool; Aug 29 1997 2 weeks supporting The Full
Monty, Rio Cinema London; Sept 19 1997 2 weeks supporting Gallivant,
Everyman Cinema London; Sept 30 1997 supporting Drifting Clouds,
Riverside Cinema London; Oct 5 1997 supporting Smoke, Ritzy Cinema
London; Dec 2 1997 1 week supporting The Full Monty, Metro Cinema
Derby; Dec 12-14 1997 supporting The Full Monty, Phoenix Arts Cinema
Leicester; Dec 13-14 1997 supporting The Full Monty, Forum Cinema
Northampton; Jan 23 1998 1 week supporting Regeneration, Waterman's
Arts Centre Brentford; Feb 22 1998 supporting The Full Monty,
Cornerhouse Cinema Manchester
* 1997 Dublin Film Festival; Gala Screening North
London Short Film Festival; Avanca International Film Festival
Portugal; Portobello Film & Video Festival; New British Expo
Edinburgh International Film Festival; 11th Annual Leeds International
Film Festival; Flipside Film & Video Shorts Festival Nottingham;
Welsh International Film Festival; Best of British Brief Encounters
Short Film Festival Bristol; 6éme festival du Court Métrage <Images
en Région> Vendôme France; Kinofilm Manchester International Short
Film & Video Festival
* 1997 broadcast on The Shooting Gallery, Channel Four
Television; July 1998 featured on Laughing Matters Granada Television;
Dec 1998 as part of Ken Loach night Film Four (digital channel); Feb
1997 featured on Granada Tonight, ITV; Feb 1997 featured on Art Waves,
BBC Radio Merseyside
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1995
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DROUGHT
15 min
16mm drama, funded by North
West Arts Board
A dry comedy about water shortages.
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* 1996 screened by BAFTA as part of its "Six of
the Best" Northern showcase
* Kinofilm 1st Manchester International Short Film
Festival; Films That Make You Go Hmmm... London; supporting Living In
Oblivion, Rio Cinema London; Electric Pavilion, Ritzy Cinema London;
Wrexham Maelor Film Festival; Cornerhouse Cinema Manchester; 8th International
Festival of Fantastic Films Manchester; featured on Byker Grove BBC
Television
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1994
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BORBORYGMUS
13 min
16mm drama
"A terrific no-budget comedy in which two obsessive rivals compete
in a maniacal quest to complete a crossword."
(Leeds International Film Festival)
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* 1 week supporting Clerks, Rio Cinema London;
Halloween Society Festival of Comedy London; East End Film Festival
London; British Short Film Festival London; 9th Annual Leeds
International Film Festival; Noir & Mystery Festival, Courmayeur
Italy; Cinergy London; Films That Make You Go Hmmm... at the Stoke
Newington Midsummer Festival London; Cinergy at the Edinburgh Film
Festival; Halloween Society at the Perth Festival Australia; Halloween
Society touring film programme to Australia & New Zealand; featured
on Hotel Babylon ITV; featured on Laughing Matters Granada Television
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1994
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VERTIGO
2 min
30 sec 16mm experimental
A desperate man decides to end it all by throwing himself off a tall building.
But first he must overcome his fear of heights…
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* British Short Film Festival London; 4th Clapham
& Battersea Film Festival London; Films That Make You Go Hmmm... at
the Stoke Newington Midsummer Festival London
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