'Driven' has been selected for the 1st FD4W International Film Festival, 9-12 September 2010 in London, UK.
The film will be screened at 10:40 on 10th September 2010 at The Lost Theatre, London, SW8
http://www.filmdirecting4women.co.uk/film-festival/
http://www.filmdirecting4women.co.uk/festivals/friday-morning-shorts/

'Driven' has received a nomination for 'Best Thriller' at the Limelight Film & Arts Awards 2010 (known as the UK's short film Oscars)
The ceremony will take place at the Troxy in East London, UK on 8th July 2010
www.limelightonline.org

Just completed an archive film for 'Katy Potts Utterly English Teaware' using footage shot in the Staffordshire Potteries during the 1920s-40s
It can be viewed on www.katypotts.com

Main commercial will be online at www.katypotts.com in June 2010

Watch the 1940s style 'Coming soon...' commercial for 'Katy Potts Utterly English Teaware' I conceived & directed on vimeo
see links..

'Driven' has been selected for the upcoming directors shorts screening at Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Rd, London, E1
on 24 February 2010 from 7.30pm
www.richmix.org.uk/film_iawfilms.htm

'Driven' has been invited to screen before 'Barton Fink' (Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen) at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) on 14 February 2010 at 10am as part of a series of films presented by the Institute of Psychoanalysis. After the screening, leading psychoanalysts (including Andrea Sabbadini, Chairman of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival) will discuss 'Barton Fink' while also referencing 'Driven'
I'll be introducing 'Driven' and will attend the discussion
www.ica.org.uk/Screening%20Conditions%3A%20Barton%20Fink+23549.twl
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1

Now producing/ directing a short film to promote Katy Potts Tea For Two Ltd. Taina Galis is on board as dop and Gwyn Moxham will complete edit and grade

'Driven' has been selected to be screened by The Dead Good Film Club at Watermans Arts Centre, 40 High Street, London, TW8 on 28 October 2009 at 7.30pm

'Driven' has been selected to be screened in New York as part of the NewFilmmakers Soho Screening Series (British Film Program) at Soho House, 29-36 Ninth Avenue on 26 October 2009 at 7pm.
http://newfilmmakers.com/Soho%20House/crimson_screen_soho_091026.html
NewFilmmakers is the leading New York screening series
http://newfilmmakers.com/

'Driven' has been selected for Short Cuts Film Festival and will be screened at 8pm on 21 October 2009 at The Film Place, University of Buckingham. The festival is sponsored by Screen South & UK Film Council
www.cliffproductions.co.uk/shortcuts09.htm
www.cliffproductions.co.uk/shortcuts09-Buckingham-Day2.htm

Currently working on a new script with screenwriter Graham Thomas

The filmed interview I did for Innterview channel last month is now online www.livestream.com/innterview

www.indieflix.com/Films/DRIVEN
see links..

'Driven' has been selected to be screened at this month's Final Cut screening on 13 September 2009 at Studio Bar @ Komedia Brighton, Gardner Street, Brighton from 7.30pm
www.finalcut.gb.com/

'Driven' will be released on IndieFlix.com on 8 September 2009

'Driven' has been selected to be screened at 2009 Portobello Film Festival, London as part of the 'London Film Makers Convention' selection, showing 'the best in contemporary London film making' on 7 September 2009 at 10pm at Westbourne Studios, W10 5JJ
www.portobellofilmfestival.com/

'Driven' will be screened by the cult film club Cinematograph at 8pm on 23 August 2009 at the Duke of Wellington, Balls Pond Road, Dalston, London, N1 4BL

http://woodshole.bside.com/2009/films/driven_woodshole2009

Urban Forest Pictures June 2009 audience have just voted me 'Best Director' of the night for 'Driven'. Thanks!

'Driven' has been accepted as an official selection in competition for the 18th Woods Hole Film Festival, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. The festival will be held 25 July - 1 August 2009. 'Driven' will be screened during the 9pm shorts program on the opening night of the festival on 25 July.
MovieMaker Magazine has named the Woods Hole Film Festival as one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals of 2009
http://woodshole.bside.com/2009/films/driven_woodshole2009

'Driven' has been selected for the Flickerings Film Showcase, being held 1-4 July 2009 in Central Illinois, USA.
'Driven' was the only UK short selected.
Programme: http://www.flickerings.com/2009/showcase.html

'Driven' is being screened by Reel Islington Screenings, part of Holloway Arts Festival on 4 July 2009, 2-6pm at Whittington Park Community Centre, Islington. 'Driven' was mostly shot in Islington, London.

'Driven' has been selected to be screened by underground film club The Pictures on 17 June 2009 at 8pm at Bardens Boudoir, Dalston, London. www.myspace.com/thepicturesnight

'Driven' has been selected by Urban Forest Pictures to be screened on 1 June 2009 at 8pm at Project Orange, 43 St Johns Hill, Clapham, London SW11 1TT. Its 2mins from Clapham Junction station. I will be talking about the film and answering questions afterwards. www.urbanforest.moonfruit.com

'Driven' has been selected by 'Cannes in a Van' and is being shown in Cannes during the Cannes Film Festival. If you're at the festival go and find them! 13-24 May 2009
http://www.shallowindustries.com/cannesinavan/2009/CiaV09_selected_films.html

'Driven' is being screened by the London Filmmakers Meetup Group on 10 May 2009 at 7pm at the Inn On The Green (IOTG), 3-5 Thorpe Close, W10 (1min from Ladbroke Grove tube)

'Driven' has been selected for Odder's Mini Cine Picture Show, being held at Odder Bar, Manchester at 8pm on 19 April 2009
http://www.myspace.com/oddersminicinepictureshow

'Driven' has been selected for Dropshot, being held in the London BFI IMAX, 1st floor foyer at 7pm on 25 March 2009

'Driven' is now complete and being sent out to international film festivals

Andrew Riley is working on the sound mix and additional sound design
Cinematographer Taina Galis has completed titles photography
Reza Safinia has composed an electro score
Gwyn Moxham has completed the edit, grade and VFX

Cast:
'Writer' - Jack Cassidy
'Writer's Wife' - Mia Austen
'Thanatos' - Victoria Hopkins
'Eros' - Stephanie Richards

Crew:
DP - David Capon
Gaffer - Gareth Brough
Camera Assistant - Ralph Messer
Sound - Ben Coleman
Costume - Lorna Gillieron
Make-up - Tina Theodorou Wood
Production Assistant - Poppy Cohen

Driven tells the tale of a writer consumed by his work. As he retreats further into fiction two ominous characters appear to torment him. Has he tapped in to the colourful world of his subconscious or has he crossed the thin line between imagination and insanity?

A writer retreats into isolation in order to complete his masterpiece. Through his obsession with his work he becomes oblivious to his wife and to all other worldly distractions. Cocooned in his fiction, the boundary between imagination and reality begins to blur. Two ominous characters appear who delight in tormenting the writer. They are Eros (the life instinct and pleasure principle) and Thanatos (the death instinct and reality principle) from Freud’s theories of the subconscious.

His wife tries desperately to halt her husband’s mental decline but only succeeds in alienating him further.

In pursuit of solitude, the writer flees the city for a remote countryside, where he allows himself to become completely consumed by his imagination. Eros and Thanatos return. Here, alone, the writer is most vulnerable to the will of these malicious drives.

Currently holding casting sessions and crewing.

'3am' will be shown as part of the Portobello Film Festival
Oliver Rickett & I will be attending on
Friday, 3 August 2007, 8 - 11pm @
Inn On The Green, 3 Thorpe Close, W10
Nearest tube: Ladbroke Grove
www.portobellofilmfestival.com

I will be talking about making '3am' (and my upcoming production 'Driven') after it's screening at Rotoreliefs
on 3rd June 2007
www.rotoreliefs.com

'3am' has been invited to screen again at Rotoreliefs at The Pool, Shoreditch on Sun 3rd June 2007 http://www.rotoreliefs.com

'3am' will be screened at Shortwave, 93 Feet East, Brick Lane on Easter Sunday/ 8th April 2007
www.shortwavefilms.co.uk/events.htm

'3am' will be screened at Rotoreliefs, The Pool, Shoreditch on Sun 4th March 2007
www.rotoreliefs.com