Early on in my TV career it occurred to me that I could make my own films on the side. The technology was changing which meant that the new small cameras and radio microphones meant that you didn't need to have a crew - an enormous expense. The small cameras at the time were affordable but the editing was still expensive and done in dedicated suites at proper facilities. However, change was rapid, just as it is now. The first film I made like this is called 'Where Has Eternity Gone?', which I shot in ten days in North Dakota and which ended up in multiple festivals in Europe and the US. I've gone on to make several more films in this way, interspersed between working in TV. The outsider subjects and stories that I naturally drift towards are tonally different to British TV requirements, although there've been some notable exceptions, now in the past. With personal films there's the space for un-grabby but curious stories, off-beat motivations within scenes and the freedom to try different structures. Lately I've been working with amateur archive and have shown my latest works at the Cinecity Film Festival in Brighton and Flatpack in Birmingham, England.