Best Global Shorts Winner!

 Everybody, I would like to announce that one of my short films has won an award for both Best Fictional Short & Best Comedy Short!

Three months ago, I entered one of my films to the festival Best Global Shorts. Best Global Shorts screens short films internationally and is now in its ninth season. In case you're wondering, the film I am referring to is The Jock & The Chav (screened on YouTube on October 2021). Here's a reminder of what the film is about; An American martial arts expert enters a street fighting tournament with a British urban hooligan who possesses the power of speech. And here it is below.


Yes, the film was written and directed by myself and it's the first film with me as director and/or writer to actually win an award.

I would like to thank producer, Roger Emmanuel, DOP, Manoj Anand, sound recordist, Billy Bannister, composer, Andrew Leaf, and the whole cast who were involved, for making this possible.

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