About me
Christopher studied visual effects at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, and was offered a job upon graduation with the well-known post production house Peerless Camera Company. He started his career as a visual effects artist and worked on several major films, including the Academy-Award nominated "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" directed by Terry Gilliam, and was visual effects supervisor on the new thriller, "The Wicker Tree" (sequel to the cult classic "The Wicker Man"), starring Christopher Lee and directed by Robin Hardy. Since directing his first commercial with US ad agency Bailey Lauerman (a PSA for the Partnership for a Drug Free America), he signed with production company Black Jack Films for commercials in the UK.


About my film
In the past I had toyed with the idea of doing a film that combined elements of live action and library footage. So, when I heard about the Framepool Challenge, and saw the wide range of material that Framepool has in it's library, I didn't have excuse not to do it. When I signed up, the deadline seemed a mile off. I came up with the story and concept, but before I had a chance to do any work on it, other work reared it's ugly head, and I couldn't dedicate any time to it for several weeks. Then, when I finally looked at my calender, realised I only had a week until the deadline. Needless to say it required several late nights, and on the last stint I was up for 30 hours until the deadline finally came around. Which was only made more painful when only two hours before the deadline, my Avid decided to delete the whole project, and I had to recut the whole thing again, from memory, very quickly!
"Motherless Child" is about animals... Homeless animals... It's a light hearted, surreal film about man's effect on nature, or more specifically wildlife. If you're trying to get an important message across, and you make a film that takes it's self too seriously, it can sometimes be slightly alienating an audience. But if you can make an audience smile, or even laugh, it will make that message seem all the more poignant! I am certainly not saying my film manages to do that, but I hope people who watch it, see something in there which they can take away with them.