In films, pictures and sounds coalesce… merging into a cohesive whole, a continuum of thought and emotion, elevating us from the quotidian to the exceptional.

Like plucked melodies, films offer alluring images in dramatic succession that linger long after the final fade out. Banjos are happy instruments, vibrant, energized, captivating capsules of endearing sound. They provide joyful accompaniment, scoring our lives with searing progressions of tangled notes and sizzling chords.  Clean, crisp, resplendent with dynamic presence, they draw us in, focusing our attention on their polyphonic stories.

Banjo Films represents an amalgam of my lifelong passions: film and music. The name pays homage to my long neck banjo, a sustaining symbol of my Villagers 3 folk singing past.

CBC and CTV introduced me to filmmaking at an early age when I began writing, producing, and directing stories for magazine format shows and two arts related series that I also created and hosted for the networks.  A song I wrote for Marc’s Music Shop - Hey Dum Diddley Dum - has grown into a perennially popular children’s sing-along.

At this stage in my career, I draw from a rich trove of eclectic experiences as a film and television director, writer, producer, and cinematographer, along with an academic immersion in the evolution of cinema that yielded my MA (Distinction) in Film Studies.

Banjo Films is predicated on the classical tradition of film as an art form coupled with the modern imaging technologies of digital cinema.