A self shooting observational documentary producer/director making engaging, thought-provoking films about real people, often filming over extended timeframes.

  • Keeping It Up: The big story of the little blue pill

    Role
    Series Filmed and Directed
    Year
    2023
    Channel
    BBC Two
    Duration
    1x90’
  • War and Justice

    Role
    Series Filmed and Directed
    Year
    2022
    Channel
    Channel 4
    Duration
    1x90’
  • Murder in a Small Town

    Role
    Series Filmed and Directed
    Year
    2020/1
    Channel
    Channel 5
    Duration
    2x45’
  • Darren McGarvey’s Class Wars

    Role
    Producer/Director
    Year
    2020/1
    Channel
    BBC Scotland
    Duration
    4x59’
  • Choose Life

    Role
    Producer/Director
    Year
    2019
    Channel
    BBC 1 Scotland
    Duration
    59’
  • Screen Grab

    Role
    Producer/Director
    Year
    2019
    Channel
    BBC Scotland
    Duration
    45’
  • Darren McGarvey’s Scotland

    Role
    Producer/Director
    Year
    2019
    Channel
    BBC Scotland
    Duration
    6x 30’
  • Emiment Monsters

    Role
    Director
    Year
    2019
    Duration
    1 x 52'
    1 x 89'
  • The Country Council

    Role
    Producer/Director

    Councils across Scotland are in the midst of challenging budget cuts, and with higher demand than ever for public services, the pressure on local authorities has never been greater.

    Year
    2017
    Channel
    BBC1 Scotland
    Duration
    3x 60’
  • Brian Cox‘s Russia

    Role
    Filmed/Produced/Directed

    One hundred years on from the Russian Revolution, Hollywood actor Brian Cox returns to Russia to discover the ex-pat Scots before him who changed, and were changed, by this vast, turbulent country.

    Year
    2017
    Channel
    BBC2 Scotland
    Duration
    2x 60’
  • The Council

    Role
    Producer/Director

    Councils across the UK are facing punishing budget cuts, but with higher demand than ever for public services, the pressure on local authorities has never been greater. This series follows council staff on the frontline.

    Year
    2016
    Channel
    BBC1 Scotland
    Duration
    3x 60’
  • Dunblane: Our Story

    Role
    Producer/Director

    This film commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Dunblane Shootings, when in March, 1996 a gunman walked into a primary school and shot dead 16 pupils and their teacher in a Primary 1 gym class.

    Year
    2016
    Channel
    BBC1 Scotland
    BBC2 Network
    Duration
    1x 60'
  • Atomic Espionage

    Role
    Reconstructions written and directed

    ‘Atomic Espionage’ tells the story of a secret war between America, Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union during WW2 in the race to make the first atomic bomb. It is a story of a war of fear which culminated in the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing over 200,000 people. In seconds two cities were completely obliterated and our world changed forever.

    Year
    2015
  • Insane Fight Club II – This Time it’s Personal

    Role
    Producer/Director

    Insane Fight Club is back. This year the boys are taking their unique form of entertainment to England as they stage fight nights in Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle. Will it bring them the wider fame and recognition they crave? And will they still be friends at the end of it?

    This is Insane Fight Club II and This Time It’s Personal

    Year
    2015
    Channel
    BBC1 Scotland
    Format
    CF
    Duration
    1x 60’
  • Commonwealth City

    Role
    Producer/Director

    In the summer of 2014 the XX Commonwealth Games will come to Glasgow. With it will bring huge structural changes to the City, none more so than in Dalmarnock - but will the locals benefit?

    Year
    2014
    Channel
    BBC Two Scotland
    BBC1 (Network)
    Format
    HDCam/SxS
    Duration
    3x60'
  • Power to the Pococks

    Role
    Producer/Director

    Meet the Pocock family: mum, dad, four children, 19 horses, 12 sheep, 6 dogs and two cows. They are living ‘off the grid’ in the remote Scottish Highlands. But times are a changing and a massive £600m pylon line is being built right beside and they want a bit of it…

    Company
    Timeline Films
    Year
    2013
    Channel
    BBC Two Scotland
    Format
    CF
    Duration
    60’
  • Warriors

    Role
    Producer/Director

    5 years on, whatever happened to ‘The Boys of Ballikinrain’? Now 18 years old each has faced their own battles in the intervening years - from doing time with ‘Her Majesty’, to trying to make it on their own.

    Company
    Saltire Film and TV Productions
    Year
    2012
    Channel
    BBC One Scotland
    Format
    HDCam
    Duration
    60’
  • My Perfect Wheelchair

    Role
    Producer/Director

    The wheelchair. A disabled necessity that has been stuck in evolution since they first came out. But one man, Andrew Slorance, wants to change that.

    Year
    2012
    Channel
    BBC Two
    BBC Two Scotland
    Format
    HDCam
    Duration
    60’
  • The Walking Wounded

    Role
    Producer/Director

    Three young soldiers battling with suicide, addictions, anger and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

    Shot on DSR450.

    ‘A powerful documentary and chilling insight’ - Scotsman

    Pick of the Day Scotsman, Sun, Daily Record, Sunday Herald etc.

    The Walking Wounded - Clarity Productions Page

    Company
    Clarity Productions
    Year
    2009
    Channel
    BBC Two Scotland
    Format
    DVCam
    Duration
    60'
  • Pride and Privilege

    Role
    Producer/Director

    Observational series following pupils over one year at Glenalmond College.

    Shot on DSR450.

    ‘Class warfare has erupted in…the most expensive classrooms in Scotland’ - SoS

    Pick of the Day Scotland on Sunday, Sunday Herald etc

    Company
    Saltire Film and TV Productions
    Year
    2007/8
    Channel
    BBC Two Scotland
    Format
    DVCam
    Duration
    3x60'
  • The Boys of Ballikinrain

    Role
    Director/Cameraman

    A ground-breaking series revealing life inside a Residential School for abused boys.

    Shot on DSR450.

    ‘A remarkable film… harrowing and inspiring by turns’ - Ian Bell, The Herald

    Pick of the Day Herald, Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, Radio Times.

    How the lost boys found a voice - Herald Scotland

    Company
    Saltire Film and TV Productions
    Year
    2006/7
    Channel
    BBC Two Scotland
    Format
    DVCam
    Duration
    3x60'
  • The One Show

    Role
    Producer/Director

    Britain’s biggest yet unknown Christmas show housed in a barn in Norfolk! Shot on DSR450.

    Company
    Mentorn Scotland
    Year
    2008
    Channel
    BBC 1
    Format
    DVCam
    Duration
    4'
  • Fire-fighters

    Role
    Director/Camerman

    Observational doc series about Strathclyde Fire and Rescue. Shot on DSR450.

    Company
    Saltire Films
    Year
    2005
    Channel
    BBC 1 Scotland
    Format
    DVCam
    Duration
    6x30'
  • Ladies that Launch

    Role
    Director/Cameraman

    15 intimate ob. docs about women launching their own businesses.

    Shot on DSR 500.

    Company
    Tern Television
    Year
    2005
    Channel
    Disc. Home & Health
    Format
    DVCam
    Duration
    15x30'
  • Cold War Spies

    Role
    Writer/Producer/Director

    Days that Shook the World II - The shooting down of Gary Powers (drama doc).

    Company
    Lion Television
    Year
    2004
    Channel
    BBC 2
    History Channel
    Format
    Digi Beta
    Duration
    60'
  • Fast and Furious in Fife

    Role
    Producer/Director

    The highest rating in the series, beating the network by over 7%.

    Observational doc about a rural village under siege from girl and boy racers.

    Company
    Lion TV
    Year
    2004
    Channel
    BBC One Scotland
    Format
    Digi Beta
    Duration
    30'
  • Great Train Robbery/Black September

    Role
    Assoc. Prod.

    Days that Shook the World II- Big heists (drama doc).

    Company
    Lion Television
    Year
    2004
    Channel
    BBC 2
    History Channel
    Format
    Digi Beta
    Duration
    2x30'
  • Assassination of JFK/Nixon’s Last Day

    Role
    Prod/Cam

    Days that Shook the World (drama doc).

    Company
    Lion Television
    Year
    2003
    Channel
    BBC 2
    History Channel
    Format
    Digi Beta
    Duration
    30'
  • Pig Story

    Role
    Producer/Director

    The first short documentary in the UK to be shot on CineAlta HD.

    A quirky film about flying pigs and my nine year insomnia problem…

    Company
    GMAC
    Year
    2004
    Channel
    BBC 1 Scotland
    Format
    High Def
    Duration
    60'