'OUT OF THE PEAT' -- BFI FUNDED SHORT FILM

SO excited to announce my writing and directorial debut, backed by the BFI and National Lottery. "Flesh as film, and film as flesh..." An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate peatland in Lancashire, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. They have come to excavate the peatland. They have come to exhume a body. But, in digging into the peat, and into the past, they unearth much more than mere relics. The peat holds forgotten histories, uneasy truths, and vast stores of climate-change accelerating carbon. Reflecting the attempt to document and preserve this landscape via the moving image, the film becomes both a lament and a call to action for local peat-bog restoration and protection. Coming this autumn.