Salsa Kingdom is the UK‘s ultimate Latin Music & Dance Festival. Salsa Kingdom takes place in Southport and features the absolute best Salsa dancers from around the world and some of the world’s finest Salsa Groups. Overt the course of three days there are workshops, parades, parties, live music and a show – The Magic [...]

This is the video for the new song ‘Shower Over Moon Street’ by Michael McKell. It’s the single on his upcoming album – also entitled ‘Shower Over Moon Street’. I’ve been allowed to preview the finished promo here.
About Michael McKell:
Michael McKell began his career as a singer songwriter with recording deals with Phonogram, EMI and [...]

Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people.
This is a general overview of the Raleigh International Expedition to India in 2008.
Visit www.raleighinternational.org to find out how you can get involved or for more information regarding their expeditions to India and the [...]

This short film tells the story of a young man who confronts his childhood priest to make a startling confession. It was made on a very low budget and shot in one day on Folkestone Harbour railway station. It stars Robert Duncan and Stephen Fletcher.
This is an HD video. If you have difficulty playing it [...]

Trebarwith Strand is a long stretch of sandy beach situated in North Cornwall. At high tide the beach is completely covered for several hours, but at low tide the beach stretches out for over a mile. It’s a highly popular tourist destination.
The purpose of this film was to highlight the stunning scenery of the beach [...]

TreeHouse is a national autistic charity with a school in North London. I was commissioned to make this film to highlight the issues of improving the practice of inclusion in mainstream and in specialist schools.
The film was used to support a TreeHouse presentation at the party political conferences and is an excellent example of how film [...]

This film highlights one balmy sunny day at the Thames Barrier Park in London. Set within 22 acres of lawns, trees and uniquely contoured Yew and Maygreen hedges you can discover the delights of this urban oasis. An international competition held in 1995 selected designers for the landscaping, structures and facilities. The result is a [...]

EC1 Day is a corporate film with a difference. It highlights some of the key achievements of the EC1 New Deal for Communities (NDC) programme. The brief for the film was to present the work of EC1 in an interesting and engaging way. Most importantly, they were keen to break away from the ‘dry’ format [...]

I shoot a mixture of drama, corporate films and documentary. This is one of my short dramas.
Passing Through was selected for various festivals including Raindance and the Manchester International Film Festival where it competed for best low budget short.
On his last day at work, an ageing projectionist locks himself in his projection room and instead [...]

This film was commissioned by Islington Council for their annual managers conference. The brief was to highlight the way in which 3 of their services have benefited residents and to highlight the role of the council in providing these schemes.
The three chosen projects were the EC1 Youth Music Project, the Work Is scheme – that [...]

A short experimental film under the heading of ‘Mini Miracles’. Shot on the Panasonic HVX200 and using available light only.

Unfortunately this video is not publicly viewable.
The reason for this is that it contains information that is sensitive to Orange and France Telecom and therefore I do not have permission to display it publicly.
If however you would like to see the film as an example of my work, then please contact me for a password. [...]

Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people. This film is about Aaron Henshaw, a partnership participant on the Raleigh India 08 expedition. In it he talks about how the whole experience has changed his life.
For more information or to get [...]

Shot and Edited by Joe Shaw.
Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people.
The Community phase of the Raleigh expedition to India in 2008 saw the venturers live and work with the community of Hosekerasunda to build 30 eco-sanitation toilets.
For more information, [...]

Shot and Edited by Joe Shaw.
Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people.
This is film details the Trek, which was part of the Adventure phase of the Raleigh International Expedition to India in 2008.
Visit www.raleighinternational.org to find out how you can [...]

This video highlights some of my work from 2008. It includes footage from the films I made for Raleigh International, which depicted their first ever expedition to India. There are shots from a film I made for the autistic charity TreeHouse – a film that was shown at the party conferences. And there is footage [...]

The Adventure phase of the 2008 expedition to India was broken up into three activities. This film documents the cycling phase. The venturers cycled for several days in Southern India working their way towards the Kerala coast where they began the next section of their adventure – the kayakking.
Raleigh International is a charity that provides [...]

In 2008 Raleigh International undertook their first expedition to India. In this film, the venturers begin the Kayaking section of the Adventure phase of the expedition. They had cycled for several days to the Kerala coast before climbing into Kayaks to travel the Kerala backwaters.
Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions [...]

A short piece about one of the partnership participants on the Raleigh expedition to India in 2008.