Community and Events

As part of my work across film, television, and the arts, I aim to use my experience in events management and leadership to build and support organisations that bring people together through moving image culture. I regularly attend arts events and film festivals as press, contributing through my personal journalism and my work with Education Choices Magazine, where I engage with emerging voices and industry practice.

In 2025, I directed UCL’s most successful film festival to date, supporting young student filmmakers across the globe. The experience reinforced my commitment to creating spaces that enable collaboration, visibility, and meaningful exchange within the creative community, and I can’t see what they curate this year.

Please keep an eye out for my latest developments on building the film community and curating space for conversation, connection and (most importantly) celebration.

THE FESTIVAL OF THE MOVING IMAGE 2023-2025

Trailer 2025

Festival of the Moving Image 2025

The Festival of the Moving Image 2025 is a student-led film and arts festival dedicated to celebrating the latest work by student filmmakers from across the globe. I directed the festival, leading its curation, programming, and delivery across all events. Following its completion, we were congratulated by the festival founder, Vladimir Alexander Smith, for delivering the most successful edition to date.

The 2025 theme, RECOLLECTION, explored memory as a fragmented and constructed process—how personal and collective histories are shaped, distorted, and reassembled through the moving image. The programme invited filmmakers to engage with nostalgia, archival material, personal testimony, and the instability of remembrance, positioning cinema as a space where the past is continually rewritten in the present.

As part of the selection process, we reviewed over 2,000 student films from across the globe, supported by an industry-leading judging panel including Elliot Grove (Founder of Raindance Film Festival and Co-founder of BIFA), David Martínez Flores (Executive Director of Raindance), Mark Currie (Co-founder of Chocolate Films), and Professor Philip Horne (UCL literary critic and academic).

The festival hosted over 15 events, including screenings, talks, workshops, and networking sessions, bringing together emerging filmmakers and leading figures in the industry. Our programme featured Oscar and BAFTA award-winning guests, including:

Jenny Beavan (Mad Max: Fury Road, Cruella)
Eddie Hamilton (Mission: Impossible franchise, Kingsman)
Jeremy Theobald (Following, Christopher Nolan’s first feature)
Kevin Loader (The Lady in the Van)
Martin Percy (AI and immersive storytelling practitioner)
Christopher Jorna (AI and creative technologies)
Duncan Thompson (film and emerging media researcher)

The festival created a space for dialogue between emerging and established voices, fostering critical exchange around contemporary filmmaking, technology, and storytelling practices.