SPIRIT
being made as part of the Unearth Art Collective (US, UK and UAE artists) in production now
TANZANIA '69
independent documentary in development
THE DIVINE VISIONS OF HILDEGARD VON BINGEN 11 mins
2018 World Premiere / 24th February - Filthy Lucre: Lingua Ignota (Hackney Showrooms, London)
The visions and music of German nun and mystic Hildegard von Bingen. Funded by the UK Arts Council and commissioned by charity entity and event Filthy Lucre.
2022 First Exhibition installation (Documentary Media Centra, Leicester)
2019 Festival de Cine Experimental, CineAutopsia / Official Selection (Bogota, Colombia)
2019 The Hazel Eye Film Festival / Official Selection (online)
2019 Lift-Off Global Network Sessions 2019 / Official Selections (online)
2018 Lisbon Film Rendezvous / International Competitive Showcase (Portugal)
2018 Shaftesbury Avenue Filthy Lucre Fundraiser, live music / visual screening / Live Screening (The Stone Nest, London)
2018 Aquifer The Florida Review Online / Published (University of Central Florida, USA)
LOST IN THE NAMELESS CITY 15 mins
2017 World Premiere - Artists Forum Festival of The Moving Image / Nominated Best Film (Manhattan, New York, USA)
Award-winning short documentary film mixing experimental video and photographs interpreting urban space in London combining black and white video and 135 film photography. 15 mins
2019 Ginkgo Projects, NHS / on-demand platform in hospitals (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2018 Cinetekton International Film & Architecture Festival (Puebla, Mexico)
2017 Experimental Film & Music Video Festival / Out of Competition (Toronto, Canada)
2017 12 Months Film Festival / WINNER Experimental Award (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
2017 Geo Film Festival & ExpoCinema / Official Selection (Cittadella, Padova, Italy)
2017 Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Film Festival / Semi-Finalist (Turkey)
2017 Caribbean Film Festival & Market / Semi-Finalist (Freeport, Bahamas)
2017 DocFilm Festival / Official Selection (Leicester, UK)
A FILM BY ABIGAIL 5 mins
2012 World Premiere BAFTA Short Film Showcase / Opening Film (Princess Anne Theatre / London, UK)
Short documentary. A child discusses her new toy video camera she received for Christmas; leading her to create and explain the characters and plot of an intricate story for a film.
2023 Real Documentary Festival / Real Inspiration Showcase (Phoenix Cinema, Leicester)
2019 Bali International Short Film Festival, Minikino Film Week / Official Selection, "A Challenge" international program (multiple venues, Indonesia)
2019 Ginkgo Projects, NHS / on-demand platform in hospitals (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2017 Exploding Cinema / Official Selection (The Horse Hospital, London, UK)
2017 12 Months Film Festival / Documentary Award 2nd Prize (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
2016 Chinh India Kids Film Festival / Official Selection (New Delhi, India)
2016 Tea Break Film Festival / Official Selection (BBC / Hull, UK)
2016 Near Nazareth Film Festival / Nominated Best Short Documentary Award (Nazareth, Israel)
2016 International Kinodot Minimalist Film Festival / Nominated Audience Award & Jury Award (St. Petersburg, Russia)
2015 Blackbird International Film Festival / Out of Competition (Cortland, NY, USA)
2015 Tirana International Film Festival / Nominated Best Short Documentary Award (Tirana, Albania)
2015 East Anglian Student Film Festival / Nominated Best Short Documentary Award (Ipswich, UK)
2015 Qabila Film Festival / Nominated Best Short Documentary Award (American University in Cairo, Egypt)
2015 Summer Cinema / Official Selection (Surface Gallery in Nottingham, UK)
2015 Videofocus Biennial Edition / 10-Page Magazine Feature, Interview & Images (Online; France, Germany & Italy) Read Article
2015 New Orleans International Children's Film Festival / Closing Film of Programme (via invitation at New Orleans Public Library, USA)
2014 Doc Lounge Aarhus / Doc Lounge Family / Shared For Online Competition (Aarhus, Denmark)
2014 Trispace Shorts / Official Selection (Trispace Gallery in London, UK)
2014 San Diego Comic-Con - San Diego International Children's Film Festival / "Best of Fest" Official Selection (USA) exclusively announced by Travelling Man
2014 Vortex Cinema Club / Official Selection (Doopo Doopo Art Gallery & Boutique, London, UK)
2014 25. Internationales FilmFest Emden-Norderney / Opening Film of 'London Shorts Special' presented by London Short Film Festival director Philip Ilson (Emden, Germany)
2014 WonderCon Anaheim International Children's Film Festival / Official Selection (Anaheim Convention Centre, USA)
2014 Bradford International Film Festival / Screening + Q&A at Filmmakers' Weekend at National Media Museum (Bradford, UK)
2014 London Short Film Festival / Nominated Best Low-Budget Short Award & Official Selection (Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, UK) Read Article
2013 Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival at (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA)
2013 This Is England - English Short Film Festival of Rouen / Nominated Special Prize of RNC (Rouen, France)
2013 DocFilm Festival / Official Selection (Phoenix Art Cinema in Leicester, UK)
2013 The Short Cinema Film Festival / Opening FIlm (Phoenix Art Cinema in Leicester, UK)
2013 RATMA International Film Festival / 2nd Place Documentary Award (Keighley, UK)
2013 Elysion Shorts - Short Film Showcase / Official Selection (Manchester, UK)
2013 Eat My Short Shorts III / Official Selection (High Wycombe, UK)
2012 Sleepwalkers International Student & Short Film Festival / Nominated Best Student Film Award (Tallinn,Estonia)
2013 Royston Arts Festival / Official Selection (Royston, UK)
2013 Bradford Festival / Outdoor Event Screening (Bradford, UK)
2013 Epiphany Children's Film Festival / Out of Competition Art Curriculum Inclusion (Epiphany School in New York City, USA)
2012 Bradford International Film Festival / Preview Screening at Filmmakers' Weekend (National Media Museum in Bradford, UK)
EDUCATION SPECIFIC SCREENINGS
2014 - 2020 De Montfort University screenings annually to media students of A Film By Abigail (Leicester, UK)
2015 Sahar International Short Film Festival / Youth groups screenings of A Film By Abigail (Oldham, UK)
2014 Bradford International Film Festival / Screenings of MARS-II and A Film By Abigail + Q&A at Filmmakers' Weekend at National Media Museum (Bradford, UK)
2014 Leeds Beckett University, The Northern Film School screenings of The Body Canvas during lectures (Leeds, UK)
2013 Epiphany Children's Film Festival / Out of Competition, A Film By Abigail used in the school art curriculum (Epiphany School in New York City, USA)
2013 This Is England - English Short Film Festival of Rouen / A Film By Abigail screened to primary school children at multiple schools (Rouen, France)
RåJBERG MILE MIGRATES 2 mins
Bodies dwell on the migrating sands of Råbjerg Mile in Denmark. Listening to the northern wind, they accompany the landscape transitioning. Short dance film.
2017 World Premiere - The Play Space at The Flying Dutchman / Official Selection (London)
THE BODY CANVAS 20 mins
2013 World Premiere - Zealous X / Art Exhibition (Oxo Tower Wharf, Southbank, London, UK)
A painter, drawer, filmmaker and dancers move through a series of structured meetings, developing communication and expression. The culmination of months of laboratories and mixing dance on screen with documentary with performers from London Contemporary Dance School.
Co-directed by with Danish choreographer / dancer Julie Schmidt Andreasen.
2016 Art Video International Film Festival of Cannes / Catalogue Invitation & Inclusion (Cannes, France)
2015 ikonoTV 24hr Video Dance Digital Event / Global Broadcast On Multiple Platforms Across Europe & MENASA Region (Berlin, Germany)
2015 Young Choreographers Festival at Haut / Official Selection (Huset KBH, Copenhagen, Denmark)
2015 Kaleidoscopic Arts Platform at Wandsworth Fringe Festival / Official Selection (London, UK)
2015 The Dancer Magazine / Advertisement Featured (Online, UK)
2015 Greensboro Dance Film Festival / Official Selection (Greensboro, USA)
2013 Toothache Duets at Performance Space (Excerpt) / Installation Screening (London, UK)
2013 London Contemporary Dance School at The Place / Installation Screening; preview version / double screens, no sound (London, UK)
BRANCHES & BONES 8 mins
Black and white video document of a dance workshop interacting with nature devised and choreographed by Julie Schmidt Andreasen, mixing together untrained performers from the public and professional dancers. Shot on location at the rarely captured Vallø Castle in Denmark. Danish title: GRENE OG BEN.
2015 World Premiere - Store Heddinge Bibliotek / Hårlev Bibliotek / Rolling Library Screenings (Stevns, Denmark)
THE NEXT ROOM 12 mins
Le Collectif Des Improvisateurs prepare and perform their interactive show "The Next Room" at the Barbican Centre in the Pit Theatre LAB.
2014 World Premiere - DocFilm Festival / Closing Film of Showcase Programme (Doc Media Centre, Leicester, UK)
MARS-II 11 mins
2013 World Premiere - 38th Boston Science Fiction Film Festival / Official Selection (Boston, USA)
Science fiction short film about four scientists taking part in a simulation of the journey to Mars. When complications occur in the simulator, it becomes apparent all may not be what it seems and the crew are forced into making choices from conflicting facts and beliefs; choices that could mean life or death, Earth or Mars.
2014 Tri-Cities International Fantastic Film Festival / Official Selection (Richland, USA)
2014 DetCon1 Film Festival / Official Selection (The 2014 North American Science Fiction Convention - Detroit, USA)
2014 RADCON - Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention / Official Selection by invitation (Pasco, USA) February 2014
2013 Monsters & Martians Science Fiction Film Festival / Opening Film (Toronto, Canada)
2013 The National Irish Science Fiction Film Awards / Nominated Best Film Award (Dublin, Ireland)
2013 Celludroid Film Festival / Official Selection (Cape Town, South Africa)
2013 Snake Alley Festival of Film / Nominated Best Science Fiction Film Award (Burlington, USA)
2013 Hush Hush Film Night / Official Selection (Leeds, UK)
2013 A Short Evening With Films / Official Selection, Q&A (Hyderabad, India)
2013 Oblong Cinema / Official Selection (Leeds, UK)
2013 Eat My Short Shorts III / Official Selection (High Wycombe, UK)
2012 PREVIEW SCREENING [UNFINISHED VERSION] (Hyde Park Picturehouse, Leeds, UK)
THE ICE CREAM MEN 41 mins
2013 World Premiere - DocFilm Festival / Official Selection (Phoenix Arts Cinema, Leicester, UK)
An ice cream man attempts to make it through the winter followed by a documentary crew. Along the journey of illness, an estranged Father and corporate nemeses; Neville descends deeper into an obsessive sugar-coated world of his own making and may never be the same come the summer... if he gets there.
2013 Film Of The Day - #FilmOfTheDay / Brett Gerry Films (Independent Film Blog - Online, UK)
being made as part of the Unearth Art Collective (US, UK and UAE artists) in production now
TANZANIA '69
independent documentary in development
THE DIVINE VISIONS OF HILDEGARD VON BINGEN 11 mins
2018 World Premiere / 24th February - Filthy Lucre: Lingua Ignota (Hackney Showrooms, London)
The visions and music of German nun and mystic Hildegard von Bingen. Funded by the UK Arts Council and commissioned by charity entity and event Filthy Lucre.
2022 First Exhibition installation (Documentary Media Centra, Leicester)
2019 Festival de Cine Experimental, CineAutopsia / Official Selection (Bogota, Colombia)
2019 The Hazel Eye Film Festival / Official Selection (online)
2019 Lift-Off Global Network Sessions 2019 / Official Selections (online)
2018 Lisbon Film Rendezvous / International Competitive Showcase (Portugal)
2018 Shaftesbury Avenue Filthy Lucre Fundraiser, live music / visual screening / Live Screening (The Stone Nest, London)
2018 Aquifer The Florida Review Online / Published (University of Central Florida, USA)
LOST IN THE NAMELESS CITY 15 mins
2017 World Premiere - Artists Forum Festival of The Moving Image / Nominated Best Film (Manhattan, New York, USA)
Award-winning short documentary film mixing experimental video and photographs interpreting urban space in London combining black and white video and 135 film photography. 15 mins
2019 Ginkgo Projects, NHS / on-demand platform in hospitals (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2018 Cinetekton International Film & Architecture Festival (Puebla, Mexico)
2017 Experimental Film & Music Video Festival / Out of Competition (Toronto, Canada)
2017 12 Months Film Festival / WINNER Experimental Award (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
2017 Geo Film Festival & ExpoCinema / Official Selection (Cittadella, Padova, Italy)
2017 Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Film Festival / Semi-Finalist (Turkey)
2017 Caribbean Film Festival & Market / Semi-Finalist (Freeport, Bahamas)
2017 DocFilm Festival / Official Selection (Leicester, UK)
A FILM BY ABIGAIL 5 mins
2012 World Premiere BAFTA Short Film Showcase / Opening Film (Princess Anne Theatre / London, UK)
Short documentary. A child discusses her new toy video camera she received for Christmas; leading her to create and explain the characters and plot of an intricate story for a film.
2023 Real Documentary Festival / Real Inspiration Showcase (Phoenix Cinema, Leicester)
2019 Bali International Short Film Festival, Minikino Film Week / Official Selection, "A Challenge" international program (multiple venues, Indonesia)
2019 Ginkgo Projects, NHS / on-demand platform in hospitals (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2017 Exploding Cinema / Official Selection (The Horse Hospital, London, UK)
2017 12 Months Film Festival / Documentary Award 2nd Prize (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
2016 Chinh India Kids Film Festival / Official Selection (New Delhi, India)
2016 Tea Break Film Festival / Official Selection (BBC / Hull, UK)
2016 Near Nazareth Film Festival / Nominated Best Short Documentary Award (Nazareth, Israel)
2016 International Kinodot Minimalist Film Festival / Nominated Audience Award & Jury Award (St. Petersburg, Russia)
2015 Blackbird International Film Festival / Out of Competition (Cortland, NY, USA)
2015 Tirana International Film Festival / Nominated Best Short Documentary Award (Tirana, Albania)
2015 East Anglian Student Film Festival / Nominated Best Short Documentary Award (Ipswich, UK)
2015 Qabila Film Festival / Nominated Best Short Documentary Award (American University in Cairo, Egypt)
2015 Summer Cinema / Official Selection (Surface Gallery in Nottingham, UK)
2015 Videofocus Biennial Edition / 10-Page Magazine Feature, Interview & Images (Online; France, Germany & Italy) Read Article
2015 New Orleans International Children's Film Festival / Closing Film of Programme (via invitation at New Orleans Public Library, USA)
2014 Doc Lounge Aarhus / Doc Lounge Family / Shared For Online Competition (Aarhus, Denmark)
2014 Trispace Shorts / Official Selection (Trispace Gallery in London, UK)
2014 San Diego Comic-Con - San Diego International Children's Film Festival / "Best of Fest" Official Selection (USA) exclusively announced by Travelling Man
2014 Vortex Cinema Club / Official Selection (Doopo Doopo Art Gallery & Boutique, London, UK)
2014 25. Internationales FilmFest Emden-Norderney / Opening Film of 'London Shorts Special' presented by London Short Film Festival director Philip Ilson (Emden, Germany)
2014 WonderCon Anaheim International Children's Film Festival / Official Selection (Anaheim Convention Centre, USA)
2014 Bradford International Film Festival / Screening + Q&A at Filmmakers' Weekend at National Media Museum (Bradford, UK)
2014 London Short Film Festival / Nominated Best Low-Budget Short Award & Official Selection (Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, UK) Read Article
2013 Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival at (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA)
2013 This Is England - English Short Film Festival of Rouen / Nominated Special Prize of RNC (Rouen, France)
2013 DocFilm Festival / Official Selection (Phoenix Art Cinema in Leicester, UK)
2013 The Short Cinema Film Festival / Opening FIlm (Phoenix Art Cinema in Leicester, UK)
2013 RATMA International Film Festival / 2nd Place Documentary Award (Keighley, UK)
2013 Elysion Shorts - Short Film Showcase / Official Selection (Manchester, UK)
2013 Eat My Short Shorts III / Official Selection (High Wycombe, UK)
2012 Sleepwalkers International Student & Short Film Festival / Nominated Best Student Film Award (Tallinn,Estonia)
2013 Royston Arts Festival / Official Selection (Royston, UK)
2013 Bradford Festival / Outdoor Event Screening (Bradford, UK)
2013 Epiphany Children's Film Festival / Out of Competition Art Curriculum Inclusion (Epiphany School in New York City, USA)
2012 Bradford International Film Festival / Preview Screening at Filmmakers' Weekend (National Media Museum in Bradford, UK)
EDUCATION SPECIFIC SCREENINGS
2014 - 2020 De Montfort University screenings annually to media students of A Film By Abigail (Leicester, UK)
2015 Sahar International Short Film Festival / Youth groups screenings of A Film By Abigail (Oldham, UK)
2014 Bradford International Film Festival / Screenings of MARS-II and A Film By Abigail + Q&A at Filmmakers' Weekend at National Media Museum (Bradford, UK)
2014 Leeds Beckett University, The Northern Film School screenings of The Body Canvas during lectures (Leeds, UK)
2013 Epiphany Children's Film Festival / Out of Competition, A Film By Abigail used in the school art curriculum (Epiphany School in New York City, USA)
2013 This Is England - English Short Film Festival of Rouen / A Film By Abigail screened to primary school children at multiple schools (Rouen, France)
RåJBERG MILE MIGRATES 2 mins
Bodies dwell on the migrating sands of Råbjerg Mile in Denmark. Listening to the northern wind, they accompany the landscape transitioning. Short dance film.
2017 World Premiere - The Play Space at The Flying Dutchman / Official Selection (London)
THE BODY CANVAS 20 mins
2013 World Premiere - Zealous X / Art Exhibition (Oxo Tower Wharf, Southbank, London, UK)
A painter, drawer, filmmaker and dancers move through a series of structured meetings, developing communication and expression. The culmination of months of laboratories and mixing dance on screen with documentary with performers from London Contemporary Dance School.
Co-directed by with Danish choreographer / dancer Julie Schmidt Andreasen.
2016 Art Video International Film Festival of Cannes / Catalogue Invitation & Inclusion (Cannes, France)
2015 ikonoTV 24hr Video Dance Digital Event / Global Broadcast On Multiple Platforms Across Europe & MENASA Region (Berlin, Germany)
2015 Young Choreographers Festival at Haut / Official Selection (Huset KBH, Copenhagen, Denmark)
2015 Kaleidoscopic Arts Platform at Wandsworth Fringe Festival / Official Selection (London, UK)
2015 The Dancer Magazine / Advertisement Featured (Online, UK)
2015 Greensboro Dance Film Festival / Official Selection (Greensboro, USA)
2013 Toothache Duets at Performance Space (Excerpt) / Installation Screening (London, UK)
2013 London Contemporary Dance School at The Place / Installation Screening; preview version / double screens, no sound (London, UK)
BRANCHES & BONES 8 mins
Black and white video document of a dance workshop interacting with nature devised and choreographed by Julie Schmidt Andreasen, mixing together untrained performers from the public and professional dancers. Shot on location at the rarely captured Vallø Castle in Denmark. Danish title: GRENE OG BEN.
2015 World Premiere - Store Heddinge Bibliotek / Hårlev Bibliotek / Rolling Library Screenings (Stevns, Denmark)
THE NEXT ROOM 12 mins
Le Collectif Des Improvisateurs prepare and perform their interactive show "The Next Room" at the Barbican Centre in the Pit Theatre LAB.
2014 World Premiere - DocFilm Festival / Closing Film of Showcase Programme (Doc Media Centre, Leicester, UK)
MARS-II 11 mins
2013 World Premiere - 38th Boston Science Fiction Film Festival / Official Selection (Boston, USA)
Science fiction short film about four scientists taking part in a simulation of the journey to Mars. When complications occur in the simulator, it becomes apparent all may not be what it seems and the crew are forced into making choices from conflicting facts and beliefs; choices that could mean life or death, Earth or Mars.
2014 Tri-Cities International Fantastic Film Festival / Official Selection (Richland, USA)
2014 DetCon1 Film Festival / Official Selection (The 2014 North American Science Fiction Convention - Detroit, USA)
2014 RADCON - Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention / Official Selection by invitation (Pasco, USA) February 2014
2013 Monsters & Martians Science Fiction Film Festival / Opening Film (Toronto, Canada)
2013 The National Irish Science Fiction Film Awards / Nominated Best Film Award (Dublin, Ireland)
2013 Celludroid Film Festival / Official Selection (Cape Town, South Africa)
2013 Snake Alley Festival of Film / Nominated Best Science Fiction Film Award (Burlington, USA)
2013 Hush Hush Film Night / Official Selection (Leeds, UK)
2013 A Short Evening With Films / Official Selection, Q&A (Hyderabad, India)
2013 Oblong Cinema / Official Selection (Leeds, UK)
2013 Eat My Short Shorts III / Official Selection (High Wycombe, UK)
2012 PREVIEW SCREENING [UNFINISHED VERSION] (Hyde Park Picturehouse, Leeds, UK)
THE ICE CREAM MEN 41 mins
2013 World Premiere - DocFilm Festival / Official Selection (Phoenix Arts Cinema, Leicester, UK)
An ice cream man attempts to make it through the winter followed by a documentary crew. Along the journey of illness, an estranged Father and corporate nemeses; Neville descends deeper into an obsessive sugar-coated world of his own making and may never be the same come the summer... if he gets there.
2013 Film Of The Day - #FilmOfTheDay / Brett Gerry Films (Independent Film Blog - Online, UK)