Within the fragments of Gurbet (2025)
20' - Documentary Role: Director - Editor
Stirred by the unexpected feeling of gurbet -being far from home- an immigrant filmmaker traces its path. The film weaves together migrant and refugee journeys as they map their Glasgow through loss, connection, and belonging. Commissioned by Scottish Refugee Council and Creative Scotland, the film opened Refugee Festival Scotland 2025.
Cinematographer: Kasparas Vidunas | Producer: Monica Lesica | Sound & Music: Eye Suriyanon
Finding the Spirit of Galoshans (2024) / in production
13' - Documentary - Role: Self-Shooting Director -Editor
This short community doc explores Galoshans, a Scottish tradition still alive in Inverclyde. It follows a voice searching for a lost spirit through remembering, reimagining, and recreating, blending childhood memories with oral history to show how tradition shapes identity and lives on today. Commissioned by Rig Arts.
Refugee Festival Scotland (2024)
3' x 2 - Highlight Videos - Role: Self-Shooting Director -Editor
Two short videos commissioned by Refugee Festival Scotland, highlighting the festival, the artists' works, and gatherings around Glasgow.
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Ya dancer! (2023)
8' - Documentary - Role: Self-Shooting Director -Editor
A dance artist befriends a group of elderly women and discovers the transformative power of social dance and movement in combating loneliness and isolation while confronting the difficult realities of aging and mortality. This work was commissioned by Govanhill Baths Culture Collective.
Building Trusted Relationships (2023)
8' - Documentary - Role: Self-Shooting Director -Editor
A short documentary commisioned by Cyrenians. It has been nominated in 2023 Smiley Charity Film Awards. Then premiered at Edinburgh Short Film Festival in 2024. The film is about trusted relationships and how people who have experienced trauma can be supported to learn to "speak trust as a second language."
A Scottish Welcome Series - 2 (2023)
Digital Documentary Series - Role: Self-Shooting Director -Editor
Produced and directed a second series of digital documentary films for the Scottish Refugee Council in partnership with the Scottish Government. The short films include interviews with Ukrainians who have settled in Scotland, Scottish hosts who have welcomed guests from Ukraine, and employers providing job opportunities for New Scots.
Additional Camera: Meray Diner
A Scottish Welcome Series (2022)
Digital Documentary Series - Role: Director -Editor
Produced and directed a series of documentary films for the Scottish Refugee Council in partnership with the Scottish Government, COSLA to be shared with New Scots, welcoming them to Scotland.
Cinematographer: Nelisa Alcalde
Climate Action Towns (2022)
21' - Documentary - Role: Director - Second Camera - Editor
This mid-length documentary showcases the climate action efforts in nine towns across Scotland, commissioned by Architecture & Design Scotland. It premiered at the Climate Action Towns Gathering in Stirling. In 2024, we expanded the project by filming additional towns.
Cinematographer: Nelisa Alcalde
It is Our Future (2021)
4' - Documentary - Role: Self-Shooting Director -Editor
A short documentary film for European, Scottish, and Global Greens’ COP26 activity. Commissioned by Green European Foundation.
3' - Scottish Green Party Political Broadcast
Produced and directed Scottish Green Party's October Party Political Broadcast film which was aired on BBC 1 and STV.
Director of Photography - Austen McCowan
Art Director - Alice Knight -Assistant Producer- Kayleigh Boyd - Make-up / Wardrobe - Karen Shields - Offline- - Editor - Matt Williams- Online Editor - Tom Cairns
Sound Designer - Simon Howard - Composer - Victoria Wijeratne- Voice Over - Deirdre Graham - Sound Mix - William Aikman- Script - Tom Freeman
Art Director - Alice Knight -Assistant Producer- Kayleigh Boyd - Make-up / Wardrobe - Karen Shields - Offline- - Editor - Matt Williams- Online Editor - Tom Cairns
Sound Designer - Simon Howard - Composer - Victoria Wijeratne- Voice Over - Deirdre Graham - Sound Mix - William Aikman- Script - Tom Freeman
Scottish Greens Campaign Films (2021)
Digital Films for Hollyrood 2021 Campaign
Role: Self-Shooting Director -Editor
Commissioned by the Scottish Green Party to film and produce campaign videos, election broadcasts that were aired on national television, and social media content.