Film Forward Step-Up Role: 3rd AD Crowd – Film / 2nd AD Crowd - Film

The element of the Film Forward programme I am most looking forward to is meeting my peers who work in film and learning the tricks of the trade; tips that can help me be a great crowd 2nd and 3rd in film, building on my experience in television.

After defying my strict South Asians parents, I eloped for my true love, cinema, to study filmmaking at Prague Film School. I returned to England, broke and more in love with film as ever. I had to fight my way into the UK film and TV industry. It took six years but I persevered and got my first break in Frances Lee’s God Own Country. I switched from production to the best department in the world, the AD department. I love chatting with people and helping others so this department is great for me. Now I want to go up the ladder and work with crowd, to be a more rounded AD. Film Forward provides a gentle step up for promotion working alongside a senior crew member without being thrown in at the deep end.

1. 3rd AD - Three (short film)

   Three Pictures Limited · Dec 2024 - Dec 2024

   Short Film - directed by Robert Carlyle. 1st Amy Coop

2. Shadowing 2nd AD - H is for Hawk (film)

   Plan B and Film Four · Oct 2024 - Nov 2024

   LP – Louise Lovegrove, UPM - Lloyd Elis 1st AD – Simon Hedges 2nd – Charlie Campbell

3. Base 3rd AD - I fought the law

   ITV · Sep 2024 - Oct 2024

   1st AD – Finn McGrath 2nd AD – Cat Kinson 2nd AD Crowd – Emma Conroy 3rd AD – Dylan Nicholson

4. Crowd 3rd - Downton Abbey 3 (film)

   Focus Features and Carnival Films · May 2024 - Jul 2024

   1st AD – Adam Lock 2nd Key – Jamie D Allan 2nd AD Crowd – Marie Devautour

5. 2nd AD - 'Gundi' pilot

   Objective Fiction C4 · Jan 2024 - Jan 2024

   Producer -Kelly McGolpin LP – Jo Alloway 1st – Amy Coop

6. Floor 3rd AD -Robin and the Hood (movie)

   RATH Production · Aug 2024 - Sep 2024

   1st – Jonathan Eckersley 2nd – Robert May Crowd 2nd – Ben Gomm

7. 3rd AD (2nd Unit) - A Kind of Spark

   9 Story, CBBC · Aug 2022 - Sep 2024

   1st AD – James Rumsey 2nd AD – Ellen Goldensmith

8. 3rd AD -Everyone Else Burns

   JAX MEDIA · Apr 2022 - Jun 2022

   1st AD –Richard Stanley Jan Harris, Tom Allan 2nd AD –Jim Penfold / Amy Coop

9. 3rd AD -Ackley Bridge S5

   The Forge · Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

   1st AD – Jarrod Egerton, Simon Noone, Antony Noone, 2nd AD –Tony Lucas * Crowd 2nd – Dani Taylor

10. 3rd AD -Ten Percent

    Bron, Headline Pictures · May 2021 - Sep 2021

    1st AD – Robyn Henderson/ Cordelia Hardy /James Rumsey 2nd AD – Joy Hoes * Crowd 2nd AD– Eric Blakemore

1. The guiding principles of departmental budgeting in high-end TV and film

   Mission Accomplished · Jan 2025

   ScreenSkills Funded

2. (Training) High-end TV and film resilience workshops for craft and tech HODs or managers

   ScreenSkills · Jul 2023

   ScreenSkills Funded

3. Succeed as a 2nd AD in high-end TV and film

   DV Talent · Dec 2023

   ScreenSkills Funded

4. (Training) High-end TV and film resilience workshops for craft and tech HODs or managers

   ScreenSkills · Jul 2023

   ScreenSkills Funded

5. Coronavirus basic awareness on production training

   ScreenSkills Test · Apr 2022

   ScreenSkills Funded

6. Coronavirus basic awareness on production training

   ScreenSkills Test · Jun 2020

   ScreenSkills Funded

7. Diploma in Filmmaking Filmmaking

   Prague Film School · Sep 2008 - Aug 2009

8. PGCE Teaching in FE Adult Education

   University of Huddersfield · Sep 2005 - May 2006

9. MSc (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Justice

   University of Edinburgh · Sep 2003 - Sep 2004

10. BSc (Hons) Criminology

    University of Teesside · Sep 2000 - May 2003