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Forged in fire

I've been working with Survivors of Domestic Violence with Broxtowe Women's Project, Visualising a series of poems written during an arts funded writing workshop. The set of films were screened and projected onto buildings at a community arts event in Nottingham to Celebrate Burns night, connecting community through art, music, dance, poetry and fire - Beeston light night. The film was shot in the new Virtual production Studios at NTU Arts. Digital back drops were created prior to filming; so it was very different to working on location as most of the post production & special effects was done prior to filming. I created 3 pre-visualisations before setting foot on set, to map out the edit and lockdown the backdrops which is a great case study to show our students at Nottingham Trent University. This poem was written & performed by Kat Bailey a survivor herself of DV the poem was written in relation to her journey out of the abusive relationship and becoming a fire fighter for Nottingham fire Service. This was screened on Burns night 2025 combining poetry and fire theme for Beeston Light Night 2025 the 3rd year running we have put on this event. Thanks to the talented DOP Adam Whitehouse and the studio technical team Matt Robertson, Dan Billings, David Rowley & Tasneem Guendouz - Sound design & mix Ian Chattam

Music by Composer: Whitesand (Martynas Lau) Title: My Spirit Is Free Year: 2018 Whitesand music available on whitesandcomposer@gmail.com Listen to his Music on Spotify.

Credit Photography below Steve Miles Photography Nottingham

It all started when…

As part of the partnership between UNITED NATIONS, WHO (World Health Organisation) & MTV I Directed this International “World AIDS Day” awareness campaign. I had the honour to attend and speak at the annual World HIV & AIDS awareness conference at the United Nations in Geneva.

The same year I had the pleasure of working with director Niall MacCormick on the award winning HIV documentary “Staying Alive”. The documentary won an Emmy Award and triggered the creation of the MTV Staying Alive Foundation. Niall MacCormick directed the award winning HIV documentary (see below). I created the Graphic packaging throughout the film including title sequence and info graphics.

The documentary won an Emmy Award and triggered the creation of the MTV Staying Alive Foundation.

I won “Best Motion Graphic designer in Europe award” at Promax Europe in Prague 1998.

Channeling his passion and energy to make a difference, George Michael fronted this documentary about HIV to coincide with World Aids Day in 1998, the year he publicly came out on CNN. The film, MTV Staying Alive, focused on the experiences of six young people from different countries who were either infected with or affected by the HIV virus.

When Michael passed away in 2016, MTV Staying Alive Foundation cited his contribution to efforts against HIV and how instrumental he was in the creation of the Foundation:

Niall MacCormick is a Scottish film and television director. His credits include the feature-length comedy-drama The Long Walk to Finchley, Firewall (the second feature-length episode of Wallander), and The Song of Lunch (starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson). All of these were created for BBC Television. He directed The Game in 2013 and won a BAFTA in 2014 for the Channel 4 film "Complicit".[1] In 2019 he directed the acclaimed BBC mini-series “The Victim”.