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After working on a number of in house documentaries, he went to Naples with a friend to make their first, essentially amateur film. It won 3 awards (including one in the London international Amateur film festival), so the pair went to Alaska to shoot a second film, a documentary on post glacial species recovery that sold to 15 companies.  There followed 20 years as a cameraman, running a production company for 12 of them, and then a freelance with a tendency to shoot films that interested him instead of rather than those that paid the bills. As a result, among other escapades, he helped rescue a dozen steam locomotives from artic Finland, flew in microlights and hot air balloons in Beirut and Bhutan, toured eastern Europe and Russia with a chaotic string orchestra and went to St Lucia for three weeks to shoot a documentary about bananas.

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Cinematography:
2025  Inside the walls of York

Director:
2025  Inside the walls of York
????  Images of Naples

Director of Photography:
2024  Galleries of Paris
2025  Inside the walls of York
????  Images of Naples

Location Assistant:
2024  Galleries of Paris
2025  Inside the walls of York
????  Images of Naples

Location Manager:
2024  Galleries of Paris
2025  Inside the walls of York
????  Images of Naples
????  The Mysterious Castles in the Carpathians

Post Production Consulting:
2024  Galleries of Paris
2025  Inside the walls of York
????  Images of Naples
????  The Mysterious Castles in the Carpathians

Storyboard Artist:
2024  Galleries of Paris
2025  Inside the walls of York
????  Images of Naples
????  The Mysterious Castles in the Carpathians

Writers' Assistant:
2024  Galleries of Paris
2025  Inside the walls of York
????  Images of Naples
????  The Mysterious Castles in the Carpathians

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