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AWARDS - WINNERS & NOMINATIONS

Fresh Look Films, Banana Bred, Ivy Lane Productions - ‘HIGHS’

GAFFER

DOP - Mari Yamamura

Short Film for film festival release, about love and drugs.

Awards:

1, Runner Up - Best International Short 2023 - Catalyst International Film Festival.

2, Winner - Young Audience Award 2023 - Catalyst International Film Festival.

3, Special Mention - Best Cinematography Award 2023, Mari Yamamura - Unrestricted View Film Festival.

https://vimeo.com/756489285

OTHER CREDITS

Glasshouse Media - 'Jack's War'

CINEMATOGRAPHER

I lit all scenes and filmed everything except the steadycam shots.

Feature film, pilot/teaser for a biopic WW1 movie, true story of love, courage, and desertion.

https://vimeo.com/189625391

Griffin Partnership - ‘CHOOSING JULIET’

CINEMATOGRAPHER & SOUND

Short Romantic Comedy for Film Festival Release.

https://vimeo.com/137373440

Sea and Sky Pictures - 'NOT THE END OF THE LINE'

CINEMATOGRAPHER & DRONE OP

After a location Recce day, and several days testing cameras, classic cine prime lenses, and various filters, looking for a particular period look, I lit and shot day and night scenes around the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, in the fabulous Yorkshire Dales.

I used my drone to film the opening shot, establishing the location, and as it descended, capturing a steam train leaving the station, and revealing/introducing our heroes as they walked into the station.

I used a powerful haze machine to provide steam as required, and greenscreens seen through the carriage windows for some of the scenes.

We also had a "studio" shoot using a set, built off-site, representing a railway carriage compartment. Again, I used greenscreen techniques, albeit there was not really enough space to rig and evenly light the chromakey screen.

Our film is a documentary, a period drama, and a comedy (a first for me). Not the End of the Line celebrates the 200th anniversary (27/09/2025) of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first steam-powered railway, and tells the story of its inception. This short film is part of a much larger multimedia production and will be broadcast on YouTube and other digital platforms.

Several scenes tip their hats to famous railway-related scenes in well-loved movies, including: Brief Encounter, North by Northwest, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Railway Children, Oh Mr Porter, and Murder on the Orient Express.