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In 2015 he wrote and directed his first short drama, Pissing In Bottles, starring Gary Lydon, Denise McCormack and Peter Campion which screened at the Kinofilm Manchester Film Festival, the New York State Film Festival, Belfast Film Festival, OFFline Film Festival, and was nominated for two awards at the Portsmouth International Film Festival.

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His 2018 Northern Ireland Screen funded short documentary Becoming Cherrie was nominated for ‘Best British Short’ in the Iris Prize in Cardiff, won 'Best Documentary' at the Oxford Short Film Festival 2020, ‘Best LGBT Short’ at the Bolton International Film Festival 2019, and screened at Dublin International Film Festival, Dinard Film Festival, Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, IndieCork, Docs Ireland, GAZE Film Festival, MixBrasil, Seoul Int. Pride Film Festival, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Irish Film Festival London, and at the Contemporary Irish Arts Centre Los Angeles.  

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Becoming Cherrie has been acquired by RTE and was broadcast in August 2023, and is currently available on the RTE Player.

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In 2019 he directed Cherrie, Me & HIV, a BBC NI True North documentary first broadcast in November 2019, currently available on the BBC iPlayer.  In 2019 he also directed and produced the short My Near Death Experience, featuring Belfast stand-up comedian Terry McHugh, funded by Northern Ireland Screen. 

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In 2020 he completed his documentary Abomination, funded by Northern Ireland Screen, following The Belfast Ensemble as they created and staged their radical opera, using verbatim homophobic hate speech from the DUP. The 43-minute documentary was scheduled to premiere in Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast in April 2020, but instead premiered on the QFT iPlayer as a result of the lockdown, and was profiled in a Sunday Times Culture Magazine feature. 

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During the 2020 lockdown he wrote and directed the comedy short Gone Viral, starring Steve Blount, Abigail McGibbon and Peter Campion. Funded by Northern Ireland Screen and produced by Raymond Lau and Green Dragon Media, Gone Viral won 'Best UK Short' at the North London Comedy Festival, and ‘Best Comedy’ at the Oxford International Film Festival, and screened at numerous international film festivals in 2021. He is currently developing a comedy series based on the Gone Viral characters with Green Dragon Media in Belfast. 

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His feature-length thriller screenplay The Screamers was selected for development as part of the Northern Ireland Screen New Writer Focus 2021-22.  The Screamers has since been optioned by Poli Productions. 

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He was selected for the BBC Writersroom Belfast Voices 2021-22.

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His short film Letter To Lia, funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, screened in competition at Docs Ireland 2022, won ‘Best Director’ at the Vesuvius International Film Festival in Naples, screened at IndieCork, Louth International Film festival, Waterford International Film Festival, Still Voices Film Festival, the Varese International Film, the Lucca Film Festival e Europa Cinema in Italy, and the Rouen Film Festival in France. 

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His 2023 short documentary Interviewing Dad was funded by Arts Council of Northern Ireland and premiered at Docs Ireland 2023, was nominated for ‘Best Documentary’ at Oxford Short Film Festival, and screened at Louth International Film Festival, and Still Voices Film Festival.  

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In 2023 he directed a four-part TV series, Second Chances, featuring Rebecca Tallon deHavilland, funded by The Broadcast Authority of Ireland and Virgin Media TV, with Mind The Gap Films, which was broadcast in January and February 2024.

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In August 2023 he was awarded BAFTA Connect membership.

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In 2024 he was one of eight Irish and Northern Irish filmmakers selected for The Puttnam Scholarship. 

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In April 2025 he directed a Screen Ireland Focus Short - Punt - which he also wrote, produced by Alanna Riddell Bond at Poli Productions.  Starring Abigail McGibbon, Michael Smiley, Gary Lydon and Steve Blount, Punt premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh 2025.