AREA OF EXPERTISE
Documentary Filmmaking
Migration Cinema
Digital Video Editing

I'm an award winning documentarian and Lecturer in Film & TV with a PhD in Migration Cinema from the University of Oxford. My documentary work is centered around the representation of otherness: indigenous cultures in North Thailand, Nepal and India; men as warriors in Basha Miao Village (China); women and babies in prison and the migrant identity. My work—shot in India—has won several awards including the 'Urban Award' at Still Awards 2020 (Ireland) and 'Best International Documentary Photograph' at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, 2019. My documentaries have been screened at international film events across the world including Africa, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Mexico, India and the United States.

Teaching photography to a Nepalese lady.
​Nuwakot, Nepal (2018)

​EDUCATION
• Doctor of Philosophy in Cinema of Migration, University of Oxford, Pembroke College 
• MA Documentary by Practice, Royal Holloway, University of London 
• BA (Hons) Italian Studies, University College London (UCL)​

​​LECTURESHIPS IN FILM 
Present Appointment 
• University of Bristol (2019-ongoing)
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Previous Appointments
• Middlesex University London (2016-2019)
​• Birmingham City University (2008-2016)

TUTORSHIPS
• Tutor in European Cinema. University of Oxford (2014-2020)
• Personal Tutor in Documentary Film Production, Hong Kong, China. Akademeia High School (2017)
• Tutor in Filmmaking to visiting students from China. Oxford Prospects Programmes, University of Oxford (2016-2017)

GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
• Pembroke College, Oxford University. Annual Fund Grant. Pembroke Film Masterclass Series (2014–2016)
​• Pembroke College, Oxford University. Sander Travel Prize (2017)
• Pembroke College, Oxford University. Dean of Graduates Fund (2016)
• Pembroke College, Oxford University. Looking China Youth Film Project Scholarship (2016)
• Oxford Prospects Programmes & Beijing Normal University. 'Charm, Ethnography,  Culture'. Tutorials Plus Funds (2016)
• Pembroke College, Oxford University. Graduate Travel Fund (2016)
• Pembroke College, Oxford University. Dean of Graduates Fund (2016)
• Pembroke College, Oxford University. Sander Travel Prize (2015)
• Pembroke College, Oxford University. Graduate Travel Fund (2015)
• Pembroke College, Oxford University. Graduate Travel Grant (2014)
• Pembroke College, Oxford University. Dean of Graduates Fund (2014)
​• University College London. Erasmus Scholarship (2002–2003)
• International Poetry Prize (2002) La scuola in versi/School in rhyme, Salerno. 

SIGNIFICANT ROLES
• Founder and organiser of the Pembroke College Film Masterclass Series. Pembroke College, University of Oxford. 
• Deputy Leader of Looking China (看中国), a multidisciplinary project funded by Beijing Normal University and the Academy for the International Communication of Chinese Culture, promoting international cultural exchange through documentary filmmaking. 

QUALIFICATIONS 
• Associate Member of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCert)

CERTIFICATES
• The Advanced After Effects Course
• Apple Certification in Final Cut Pro
• Certificate in Film Directing. New University of Cinema and Television (NUCT), Cinecittà Studios, Rome, Italy.

MEMBERSHIPS
Amnesty International
Bectu
BFI
British Journal of Photography
​Directors UK
Royal Television Society (RTS)
Women in Film and TV (WFTV)