CURRENTLY
BEFORE THE BED, BEFORE THE KNIFE [post production]
A shadowed, fever dream about the realisation that an intense relationship once obsessed over, a foundation of your daily life, has irreversibly changed you.
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DEVELOPMENT
SOLID STATE [feature]
A personal revenge story examining the fucked up heart of the American dream in Silicon’s Valley Palo Alto.
Field research to date includes interviewing in person in and around Palo Alto/Mountain View/Menlo Park a series of big tech/ FAANG engineers and managers (Google/ex Apple, Meta), a startup guy, a Meta marketeer, electrical and motherboard/semiconductor engineers and a UX designer; background source material includes Malcolm Harris’s comprehensive Palo Alto: A History of California Capitalism, and the World.
The LA Times said this Malcolm Harris’s writing—
Malcolm Harris had the good luck to grow up in Palo Alto, a blessed piece of real estate in the American economy, lit by both the sun of Silicon Valley and the rosy sandstone glow of the Stanford University campus. He also had the good luck to make it out alive. In the years Harris attended Palo Alto High, students killed themselves at a rate between four and five times the national average, walking to their deaths on the train tracks that Leland Stanford built to escape the labor unrest of San Francisco more than 100 years earlier.
THUS FROM MY LIPS
A pandemic chamber piece set in the Soho Hotel where Eshal and Rayyan attempt to reconcile their unspoken connection and fear of being kissed by role playing a scene from Romeo & Juliet.
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PREVIOUSLY
Ellora Torchia portrayed the broken heart of my birth mother, Joan, who I never knew in a single take 6 minute monologue. Screened in over 20 festivals including premiering at the iconic Chinese Theater at Hollyshorts Festival in LA, Leeds International Film Festival and London Film Week where it won Best Short Film, screening at The Garden Cinema, before being picked up for distribution by Amazon Prime.
selections
HollyShorts (Premiere) (Los Angeles, US)*, New Hampshire Film Festival*, Leeds International Film Festival*+**, Norwich Film Festival**, North East Film Festival***; Cinefest (Sudbury, Canada)****, New York Shorts (NYC, US) ****, Burbank (Los Angeles, US), Cornwall, Crystal Palace, DUMBO (NYC), Ealing, Earl’s Court, London Film Week, London Super Shorts, Lonely Seal, Northampton, Oxford, Shorts Not Pants (Toronto, Canada), World Of Film (Glasgow, UK) //Awards Best Film – London Film Week, Best UK Film – London Super Shorts, Best Actor – Cornwall Film Festival //Accreditations *Academy/Oscar qualifying / **BAFTA & BIFA qualifying / ***BIFA qualifying / ****Canada Screen Award qualifying //Online Amazon Prime, Director’s Library, Director’s Notes