CV
Film-Relevant Experience:
Director of Sunday in Japan, feature-length documentary hybrid film.
Produced by Moon Road Films and Elda Productions (in production).
Development Funding - Creative Europe
Selected for pitching at Sheffield Doc Fest, TokyoDocs, Fipadoc
Produced and edited the Afrofuturist short film "Mulika", directed by Maisha Maene.
Selected: Sundance Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and many more.
Awards: Medien Patent Award from Locarno Film Festival, Best Sound Design from Dresden International Short Film Festival, Best Film and Best Image and Fickin' International Film Festival, Best World Narrative from Drunken Film Festival.
Streaming on Canal+
Paper on ‘Makavejev’s “Neo-Documentarism”' published in Film Matters, Dec 2021.
Videographer and Editor for UNICEF, Goma, DRC. Featured on BBC, CNN and more.
Edit Assistant for BAFTA-nominated Tina Gharavi, Bridge + Tunnel Productions, Newcastle, UK
Education:
2020, University of Newcastle, Bachelors, English Literature, 1st Class Honours
Other Work:
Sept 2020 - Present
British Art & Design Association
Editorial and Archive Assistant
Sept 2018 - Apr 2019
Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.
Interviewer and Transcriber for refugee research project.
June 2018- Dec 2018
Kyoto Journal, Magazine, Kyoto, Japan.
Staff Writer
June 2017 - Sep 2017
OrangeKat, Creative Agency, Kigali, Rwanda.
Editor and Journalist for Wild Child magazine
Aug 2017- Aug 2018
Gift of the Gab, Multi-lingual Magazine, Newcastle University, UK.
Editor-in-Chief
Other skills:
Adobe Premiere Pro, Davinci Resolve
Intermediate Spanish
Intermediate Japanese