About Me

Filmmaker. Storyteller. Chronic Overthinker.

Where It All Started

For 30 years, I’ve been telling stories across every medium I could get my hands on — video production, TV, feature films, shorts, music videos, even the odd wedding video (a man has to eat). A storyteller to my core, I’m also a writer of fiction, having produced several short stories and currently wrestling more novels than is probably sensible into reluctant submission.

I was born in Grimsby in 1981 — a town that shaped me in ways I’m still figuring out.

My love of film started early. A movie-obsessed child, I’d stay up all hours watching anything I could find and paying the price the next morning at school — a price I considered entirely worth it. My film collection grew into the thousands, each one studied with the kind of forensic attention most people reserve for things that actually matter.

I attended Whitgift School in Grimsby from 1993 to 1998, where my passion for filmmaking was properly ignited under the mentorship of Media Studies teacher Laurie Boxer. That fire only grew when I enrolled in TV and Video production courses at the Grimsby Institute.

1996 — A Brush With Greatness

In 1996, my father Glyn and I were invited to the grand opening of Immage Studios in Immingham, where I had the rare honour of meeting the legendary Lord David Puttnam. For a teenager with ambitions bigger than his hometown, this was the kind of thing you don’t forget. That same year, I completed work experience at Immage Studios — impressing enough to be brought back every school holiday as a runner on Channel 7 TV productions.

I carried a lot of tea. I regret nothing.

2001–2004 — Top Of The Ninth: The UK’s Number One Baseball Community

Alongside my early steps into media, I’ve always been a devoted sports fan. I became a Grimsby Town FC supporter in 1991 at age nine, my first match at Blundell Park watching the Mighty Mariners sink Chester City 2–0. Across the Atlantic, I found a second loyalty in the long-suffering Chicago White Sox — because apparently one emotionally complicated relationship with a sports team wasn’t enough.

In 2001, I combined that love of the game with the rise of online fan culture, launching Top Of The Ninth with the global Rivals Network and baseball expert Diane Stanley. It grew into the UK’s first, and one of the world’s largest, online baseball communities, running until 2004 when the Rivals Network folded. I remain unreasonably proud of this.

In the early 2000s, I also joined Turning Point Productions (TPTV), an award-winning disability awareness TV production team co-founded by my father, which produced the magazine-style show In Focus.

It was also in 2004 that I met Sadie, who has since had to put up with all of this.

2012–2019 — When Things Got Serious

In December 2012, my life took a turn that had nothing to do with career choices. Admitted to hospital for life-threatening surgery, doctors discovered my sternum was crushing my heart valve. The operation meant breaking ten ribs and cutting my sternum into three pieces before putting it back together again. Recovery was long, painful, and not remotely cinematic — despite what I might tell you. Sadie and I married in June 2013 anyway, because apparently nothing slows us down, and promptly relocated to Folkestone to start a new chapter.

Between 2013 and 2015, I co-produced and edited the horror film Christmas Slay — of which I am enormously proud, primarily because it sits among the worst-rated films on IMDb and every single review confirms this with remarkable consistency. The film is, genuinely, awful. I wouldn’t recommend watching it. Fortunately, my name isn’t beside the writer/director credit — I was the editor, which means I polished that turd so thoroughly I could see my face in it. It was still a turd though. I could smell it.

In October 2019, things got serious again: I was diagnosed with Stage IV Splenic Marginal Zone Lymphoma, a rare and incurable form of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Six cycles of chemotherapy and immunotherapy later, I reached complete remission — though the doctors were honest enough to tell me it would likely require further treatment down the line. I filed this information away and got back to work, because what else are you going to do.

Now — New Directions: Music and Everything Else

As if there weren’t already enough plates spinning, my creativity has never been content to stay in one lane. After years of songwriting, singing, and playing guitar in the privacy of my own home, 2025 became the year I finally did something about it — releasing my first songs on streaming platforms, starting with “Old Wives Tales” on 28 February 2025. The world had been warned.

Currently, I’m involved in Two For The Road, a fun and factual TV series, alongside Love and Other Lost Causes and Mr Midnight, both feature films in development, and two novels — The Listeners and The Lesson — which are coming along nicely, if you don’t ask me about deadlines.

My life has been one of passion, stubbornness, and creative output — through the genuinely difficult bits and everything in between. Whether the medium is film, fiction, or music, I keep finding new things to throw myself at, and somehow it keeps working out. Mostly.