If you missed Dambusters on Channel 4, you can watch it on 4OD until they take it down, which will hopefully be at some point in the distant future!
Watch it here.

After almost a year of hard work, our film about the Dambusters in which a team of engineers and pilots recreate the famous bouncing bomb is finally going to be on TV! ‘Dambusters: Building The Bouncing Bomb’ will be on Channel 4 at 8pm tonight.

And it was awesome to see a massive splash of the DC-4 on the Channel 4 homepage…

I have spent the last year of my life working with an awesome team of people from Windfall Films, Cambridge University and Buffalo Airways to try and recreate the iconic Dambusters raid from World War II. When then faced the even trickier task of trying to make a film out of the hundreds of hours of footage. The film will be broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK on 2nd May and internationally over the coming months.

Channel 4 have released a couple of taster clips which were skillfully put together by my producer, Tom Cook, and myself on a laptop late last night….

Thank you to everyone who came to the screening of Ladders at the BFI, special thanks to those who laughed. The Q&A afterwards was a bit of a strange experience – I wasn’t entirely sure anybody was really interested in what I had to say about the nature of filmmaking, so I mainly ended up cracking bad jokes. When I started making Ladders I never thought I would end up sitting on a panel with Guy from The Full Monty, but this is an experience I will treasure.

For those of you who couldn’t make it, you can now watch the whole film on YouTube, for free, in HD. Enjoy!

This January the film I wrote and co-directed with Alistair McMeekin will be showing at the BFI Southbank as part of the London Short Film Festival. ‘Ladders’ will be shown alongside a number of other short films on the subject of growing up and coming-of-age so it promises to be a great afternoon.

Ladders at the BFI

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director of the festival, Philip Ilson, and some of the filmmakers, including Alistair and myself. I’ll be at the back nodding and trying to look intelligent.

Tickets and more information about the event can be found on the BFI website or the LSFF website and you can find out more about the film on this website and Facebook.