WRITER/DIRECTOR AWARDS
HUMAN REMAINS - South West Screen Script Award 2005
BAD DREAMS - Channel 4 Script Award 1985
THE WORLD WITHIN US - Channel 4 Writing and Production Award, Prix graph, Locarno, Canal Plus Award, Montbeliard, Special Commendation WRO , Warsaw (Arts Council Grant) 1987
SKIN DEEP - ITV/South West Screen Writing Award, (2000) also received a BAFTA nomination for best short 2001
PUBLICATION
Over the years I have written many articles such as "Lawless Art", Independent Media December 1990 , "Talking Television", Independent Media 1992. My most recent article was in Televisual May 2001 concerning High Definition Television, which I used as a - practitioner on that format on an American production in February this year. Go to Article
Go to Publications and Clips of work
SHORTS AND FEATURE FILMS
I have written many shorts: 1685, Stone House, Total Immersion, Dragon Hill, The Fair Cop, Entranced, Information Highway, The Higgs Boson Effect,, Waiting for the Storm, Moving the Stone, Devils etc, and two of my latest are sci fi tales: an adaption of Bob Shaw's short story THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS (this received a £25,000 grant from the Northern Ireland Lottery) - DOWNLOAD (10 Pages)
And FOREVER (shot on HD Varicam September 2003)
and the following feature films:
The Isle of Glass (with Robin Brooks)
Remembrance
Dream of England
The Beat of the Heart
Black Water
Notes on the Principles of Silence
Bad Dreams
Triptych - I wrote the frist treatment, followed by Frank Deasy, then Al Hunter Ashton who has taken it to thrird draft.