I was born in New Zealand, the youngest of three, into a home full of music, arts and making. Weekends were often spent at folk festivals watching my parents and their friends perform, but a wider family of engineers and problem solvers meant I grew up in a rich and diverse creative environment. At school, I found my tribe in the arts and science departments, where teachers helped to nurture my creative passions. My brother - a director of music videos and commercials - enabled me at seventeen, to get work as a runner at an audio postproduction company. The experience etched in me, a sense of wonder at the complex and magical process of filmmaking. Some five years later and after studying at the Wellington Conservatory of music, I’d find myself in the UK working at the BBC, where my inbuilt Kiwi ingenuity would hold me in good stead. Intense learning on the job followed, building a facility, supporting editors and productions during a period of rapid technological change. Through lucky opportunities and trusting, patient directors, I progressed from the backrooms of the corporation to begin my career as an editor. Nearly twenty years later, that seventeen-year-old sense of wonder remains and is an integral part of my approach to filmmaking.

My main interest is in documentary, and the power to tell human stories with privileged access and through the use of archive. I see editing as a form of writing, a way to communicate ideas, emotion and experience, using sound and image to occupy a space in the viewers experience words alone cannot. The edit can be a highly collaborative space, where the relationship between director and editor is often a fine balance of trust, support, understanding and objective critique. It’s a a role I take seriously but also enjoy immensely. Editing credits.

As well my editing work I also shoot and I think my experience as an editor makes for a confidence I might not otherwise have as a camera person. I am particularly interested in filming craftspeople at work, putting a lens to unseen processes and skills that are easily overlooked in modern life. Camera credits.

Whatever my role, I feel fortunate to love the work I do and just want to make great films.