Upcoming
Projects.
As Things Were
↑ Shots from my own home videos ↑​
A determined 8-year-old Noah and his innocent younger sister Shannon grapple with the news of their parents’ divorce, as they devise imaginative schemes to keep the family united.
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As Things Were is a bittersweet dramedy short film that explores the impact of divorce on children through a kids perspective. The 2005 setting and sequences seen through camcorder home video footage lend an intimate and nostalgic feel to the film, while the innocence of the kids (and a dog) provide moments of levity.
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This script emerged from my desire to reexamine a deeply personal and surely one of the most impactful experiences of my childhood: my parents’ divorce. I’ve been wanting to make a more personal film for a while, and this topic had been gestating in my mind for a while.
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There aren’t many depictions of divorce in cinema, and the ones that do exist are often acrimonious, lacking balance and nuance. I saw few films which I could relate to or which felt true to my own lived experience.
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As Things Were was awarded €32.000 by the Film Fund Luxembourg in June 2025 as part of the Aide Carte Blanche fund, and is currently in pre-production with the goal of shooting in the first half of 2026.
Model Citizens
A doctor fights to expose the devastating effects of a memory-wiping therapy, before her loved ones’ memories are erased.
After screening our short film A Positive Contribution to international and UK audiences, writer Heather McQuaid and I were repeatedly asked whether the short was a concept piece for a larger project.
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While we had never thought of A Positive Contribution as a feature or series, we saw the potential in the fictional world we'd created. A Positive Contribution takes place in just one room with three characters, but there is so much more that isn't shown. The exciting thing about sci-fi is that you get to create the world and its rules from scratch. So we decided to explore the idea further.
We're currently developing the series and exploring the rich themes this story has to offer and what direction to take it. Model Citizens builds on the fictional setting and premise of A Positive Contribution, but will explore different themes, topics and have a different story engine.
↑ A Positive Contribution stills ↑​
EARGASM
When a meek ear doctor’s patient confesses to the sinful pleasure of using cotton buds in his ears, he descends into madness as he is forced to confront a long-repressed temptation.​
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This is a weird one. I read an article in the Washington Post a while back in which an ENT-doctor complained about patients returning with ear-infections and other issues after using cotton buds in their ears, despite his repeated warnings. ​The article evoked in me an image of a doctor frustrated that nobody will listen to his warnings - or maybe jealous that everybody is getting the pleasure he is too repressed to feel?
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Everybody puts cotton buds in their ears (don't lie), so why is it such a taboo? I've recently found myself drawn to outrageous comedy short films that just push the boundaries like Meat Puppet (Eros V), The Foul (James Button) and Dog Person (Harry Carr) so I figured this would be the right script to flex my comedy muscles.​​
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People who have read the script either love it or hate it, and that's just how I like it. Because what's the point of creating inoffensive art that pleases everybody?
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Currently in pre-production. Shooting in 2025.
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