Films / Directing · Creative

Story that
earns attention.

A British writer-director based in Stockholm, telling character-driven, internationally minded stories across short film, feature and music video. I write, direct, produce, edit and shoot my own work — script to screen.

01Ask the director
michael@stockholm — ~/films
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Run:
02Selected films
Driven · Teaser Trailer
2017DrivenFeature · writer-director · Pakistan / Poland / UK / Russia · shot in Lahore · documented on WikipediaFeature
2021Marloe – Remember MeWriter-director-producer · Best Music Video, Stockholm City Film Festival · Official Selection, Film In FocusMusic video
2023Canon – Knocked OutWriter-director-producer · music videoMusic video
2008–12In Reggio · Rhia · Fim · Pride · Night LightsShort-film slate · director / writer / producerShorts
DevThe Old Man in the LakeShort and screenplay · in developmentIn development
03Craft & roles

A hands-on filmmaker — script to screen, largely by hand.

Writer-director first; producer and director-DOP second. The wider craft is range and self-sufficiency — well suited to lean, independent and AI-assisted production, where one judgement runs through every stage.

WriterDirectorProducerExecutive ProducerEditorCinematographer / DOPCamera Operator
04Voice & pedigree

“Truth is my inspiration as a film director.”

Stockholm City Film Festival interview, 2024 (published)

The work centres on truth, human character and an international outlook. The most independently verified part of my profile is the screen record — Driven on Wikipedia with national press, and the Stockholm City Film Festival win for Marloe – Remember Me.

Trained at Sheffield Hallam University and in Belgrade (Faculty of Dramatic Arts), with European summer film school and Cinemadamare. Mentored by three filmmakers whose work shaped mine:

Rian Johnson
Mentor
Krzysztof Zanussi
Mentor
Aleksander Sokurov
Mentor
05Festival leadership

Founder & Director, the Stafford Film Festival.

Held at the Stafford Gatehouse Theatre, with categories including Best Feature and a Best AI Film category — programming, juries and stakeholder work, and a platform at the front of the AI-and-cinema conversation. Supported by Beeyawn Ltd and Project 54; submissions via FilmFreeway.

06The AI-film frontier

Where the director and the AI operator are the same person.

Few working writer-directors also run an AI-first media company and curate AI film. I do both — which makes the AI-and-cinema frontier my most distinctive creative territory: a credible practitioner in AI-assisted filmmaking, branded content, and the future of production.

It is the natural overlap with the commercial work — story plus modern production, sold to brands and screen.

A story worth telling well?

Directing, branded content or an original project — let’s talk about what you want to make.