The screenwriting competitions you should like will very much depend on what you want to get out of it. To be clear: Don’t enter, if

In my experience at least, it can be a long trawl as a writer. I’ve known more than one screenwriter who’s never had a script

Favourite Quote:‘When I was ten years old. my pop said to me, “Son, it’s a truly lucky man who knows what he wants to do

Having completed the mentor process and, once happy with Query letter, synopsis and full manuscript, there comes the nutty issue of pitching agents. The good

Once you complete the Mentorship Scheme on CBC, you may not of course have completed your novel. In my case, I went into the mentorship

It’s pretty sobering when something as massive as an invasion happens. It can only throw things into perspective, underlining how fortunate I am in my

Two-thirds in to my mentorship through the Curtis Brown Creative mechanism. Mentorship is something one can apply for, once graduating from any of the novel-writing

After almost 14 years, arthouse indie ‘Greys Inbetween’ finally debuts worldwide on five channels, including Vimeo, Tubi and Amazon Prime. A long labour of love,

As 2021 draws to a close, one final nugget of good news in an otherwise quite tumultuous year. Subsequent to the festival triumph a couple

The beautiful island of Reunion, a small french colony in the Indian Ocean, not far from Madagascar, hides a grim history. The Children of Creuse

Anyone who has been following the long saga of the ‘Greys Inbetween’ reboot will have some idea of the journey it has been. It was

It’s a sad reflection that, even today, now the Wild West days of adoption are said to be behind us, that babies are still being

In 2007, Lord Stanley Fink came to me with a project. he wanted to document the creation of a penthouse in the water tower of

Enoch Powell is an interesting man. I don’t like him I must say, but I can see how he was a powerful politician. An Oxford

As a follow up then, to my blog below: ‘Lessons Learned as a Low-Budget Auteur’, I’m pleased to say that FilmHub.com have successfully parlayed ‘Greys

Yet another dreadful story unfolding in the news recently that approximately 200 babies adopted in the sixties and seventies were done so illegally. It was

October is Black History Month. Don’t get me started about South Asian Heritage Month (July/August, for those that need to know). Of course, it’s far

Last week, I got a surprising email from my agent, to say that the Royal Aeronautical Society had been in touch, wishing to talk to

‘Plenary’ adoption is defined as a legal separation of child from parent, such that the original birth certificate is no longer valid, holding no legal

For anyone of colour, the circumstances of Sarah Everard’s murder makes for grim but unsurprising reading. There really never has been a comprehensive clear-out of

I have to say, I find it extraordinary that a body found so grossly negligent be permitted to self-govern and disseminate compensation, when they are

Having spent an intense time writing the first draft of my new novel, grateful indeed for the space that the Arts Council Award afforded me,

Sunday Sept 5th was the 50th anniversary of the National Film & TV School, celebrated by a barbecue and blessed by excellent weather. When I attended back

One of the things that happens as a low budget filmmaker is that you often end up languishing in an overlooked corner of the process,

I’ve got one for you. I was asked to do a series, BBC 8-parter and I was in 3 Eps of the latter half- perhaps

‘Reading Lenny Henry’s findings, it feels kinda weird talking about it all now. It’s been a part of the wallpaper -a given- for so long

Windrush is a distressing thing to talk about, for several reasons. Mostly when thinking about those who were affected by the Home Office Hostile Environment

‘Losing Heart’ coalesced in my brain over a couple of years, borne essentially out of frustration, more than anything. Coming out of drama school four

It’s almost a guaranteed thing, whenever you bump into a fellow Alumni from Guildhall, should you mention tutors of yore, their face always lights up

A while since I blogged, but a fair amount has been going in in the background. I’m very surprised and pleased to announce I have