I’ve always found looking at box office figures weirdly interesting. Both my parents were in the film industry, so I spent much of my childhood travelling around the UK watching cinemas being built from the ground up. When I hit 16, I managed to persuade my school to let me do a film studies A-Level by myself, even though it required one-on-one classes on a Thursday afternoon.

My career started in some weird and wonderful places. I spent 5 years in Edinburgh getting a degree in Chemistry, while working for Picturehouse Cinemas during my summers – travelling the country with an inflatable cinema and helping to build some of their new venues. After university I then worked at a number of different start-ups, designing reusable bottles and creating late-night drag bingo shows.

I then moved into the TV & Film industry to work at documentary production company. I worked on all new business ventures across factual TV and film, while specialising in virtual, augmented and mixed reality. I worked on projects with Netflix, Discovery, Apple, Meta, and BBC, as well as across the museum and arts sectors.

After almost 4 years working in film production, I moved to Trafalgar Releasing, where I now get the opportunity to use the nerdy skills I gained as a chemist, and the perspective I got from film production, to analyse, fund, and distribute projects across music, theatre and film.