With 8 years experience in High End TV, these sessions have been consistently praised for their honesty, practicality, and intent. The focus is always on helping filmmakers make better creative decisions, avoid costly mistakes, and build sustainable momentum — offering industry-standard insight, often gate-kept, in a way that is clear, rigorous, and genuinely accessible.
This isn’t generic coverage — it’s director-led insight from someone who has worked on High End TV and made high-budget short films, taken them to BAFTA/BIFA-qualifying festivals and won multiple awards. You’ll receive clear, detailed notes that strengthen story, character, and theme, while positioning your script for funding, production, and festivals.
The film festival strategy support is rooted in over a decade of navigating the international festival circuit and winning at Oscar-qualifying festivals. I help filmmakers build clear, tailored festival strategies — from positioning and premiere choices to submission planning — so their films reach the right audiences and create meaningful momentum.
I support filmmakers in getting short films off the ground from development to delivery - working through writer’s block, sharpening creative vision, building pitch decks, navigating funding applications, making confident decisions on set or navigating a career through the Film/TV industry.
Email eskaystorylab@gmail.com for access to the recordings
Masterclass at Apple Covent Garden
Premiere of my film 'The Letter'
Q&A for my film 'Man To Man' at UK Asian Film Festival