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Thoughts on the creative process, writing, filmmaking, and working self-employed across continents.
Mastering brand collaborations as a filmmaker
There is great satisfaction seeing a creative project and one’s own ideas come to fruition but a collaboration also always means that…
Where Ideas Come From and How to Turn Them Into Projects
The toaster was at least twenty, possibly thirty years old. I was visiting a very old, very lovely lady who sold me her barely used car of similar age. As I sat at her kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee and I looked at this piece of retro equipment, I thought:
Dumb Idea: Making a Film in an unknown place
It occurred to me for the first time when I returned from a mad road trip through Morocco. What the heck was I thinking (which will be the title of my memoir btw)?! Making a film with just my DP and a photographer/talent, in a country I had never been there before. After I returned home
The Story behind the Film: Layers of Our Lives
A look behind the scenes and learnings of making this series of mini films in numerous locations across greater Sydney and (much greater) Mumbai…
Filming Humpback Whales in Tonga (possibly the best week of my life)
When a 36 ton, 16 metre long Humpback whale decides to take a turn and check you out from close up, it feels like someone has pressed the pause button on time.