Throughout the month of September, Filmmaker is partnering with the online short film competition Filminute, hosting five of its nominated titles and running interviews with the director’s of these one-minute movies.

Tell us who you are (where you’re from, background, previous credits as a filmmaker)

I’d like to think I am a fairly regular chap from London, UK. Once upon a time I was a pro snowboarder which led to making snowboarding movies and setting up a production company called Grain Media. I’d always dreamed of making documentaries and eventually after a long time making branded content I managed to get to a position where I could focus pretty much purely on them. Today I make lots of different types of documentary films from wide-reaching journalistic investigations through to small character-focused stories, Fish Supper being an example of the latter. Some previous credits include: Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul, Aisha’s Song, We Ride: The Story of Snowboarding and Pirate Fishing.

Describe your film in 100 words or less (plot, style, influences)
This is a simple observational documentary film about a man fishing… The only catch is that he fishes from the Thames river in the heart of London, a water source more known for floating condoms and rubbish than fish.

What were the biggest challenges of making a one-minute film?
It’s really tough packing any film into a minute. You have to be really brutal with your material and just stick to sequences that progress the story. I worked with a great editor for this film (Andrew Cardy) and he definitely deserves a lot of credit for some of the tough choices we had to make to get the film down to one minute.