I’m not sure how you’re meant to react when the critics review something you’ve worked on as “the most dreadful thing to happen to Christmas since King Herod” + “This is the worst film since Cats” / “has as much Yuletide spirit as a dead rat in the eggnog” Oh well, anyways shout out to the crew!

Loved this bit from the recent Jeff Buckley doc. I wish there was video footage from that meeting between Nusrat-saab & Jeff but this story from Joan Wasser is joyful and heartbreaking at the same time. The image taken by Jack Vartoogian is one of my favourite shots ever taken.

Is it me or is Reuben Amorim begging to be sacked? But that quote made me laugh, cause if you swapped out the word ‘player’ with ‘crew’ you’d think he was talking about the lifecycle of a freelancer working in film & tv

This is how I’d spend all my free time* (*If I could actually sing/play the harmonium & the tabla🥹)

This could be a fantastic opportunity for someone from the South Asian community to get their foot in the door. I can’t tell you how rare a shout out like this is. As a group, we’re still woefully underrepresented on set as crew behind the camera. Pass on the word if you can

TV is in trouble | Television has been run by the same demographic for over 70 years. If we want to keep up, we need new people in the room, people who can see the audience in a different way www.broadcastnow.co.uk/comment/tv-i...

It’s my #NusratFatehAliKhan playlist up on Spotify. Not definitive (Missing the songs off the Dead Man Walking score) but it’s my wish list of tracks I would’ve loved to have experienced live open.spotify.com/playlist/4bh...

If I wasn't gonna start working and was free to fly over to Toronto, I would've been there in a heartbeat - tiff.net/films/hamlet

AI-Altered ‘Raanjhanaa’ Ending Escalates Eros-Aanand L. Rai Dispute Over Creative Rights: ‘Indian Cinema Now Stands at Its Own Inflection Point’ | What a depressing state of affairs. Who’d wanna work with Eros going forward? variety.com/2025/film/ne...

The betrayal feels real even if it’s only ever one-sided. #SetLife #DitonSet

👋🏾 just posting again to say I’m available for work. Hoping to speak to DOP’s about their next projects should they be looking for a DIT 🙏🏾

What these companies don't get or seem to care about is those of us who are professionals in post-production and rely on tools like WeTransfer to send materials to clients have also signed NDAs that are complete conflict with their new TOS. Legally we CAN'T use WeTransfer now.

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Love this bit from the #Sinners Making Of Only have had it happen a couple of times in my career where the director+producer+Asst editor will cut together a sizzle/blooper reel for the crew. It’s the best present a production can give to the crew. Nice to catch a glimpse of all our labour as we wrap

Day 01 of a TV shoot vs Day 100! (Jokes aside, look I have no sympathy for her or anyone serving this government)

Sometimes in this industry you make honest mistakes with the projects you take on, but if it doesn’t align with my personal beliefs then I’ll respectfully step aside. It does cost you your professional relationships & that’s a bitter pill to swallow.

A decent chance Colin Kaepernick gets arrested today for taking a knee during the anthem. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/...

This is the part of the job I struggle with - securing the next gig but we’ve all gotta do it. Would love to line up the next job sooner rather than later. Open to short/long form projects & would love to connect with new DOP’s as well as reconnect with DOP’s who’ve worked with me in the past.

Another bleak year ahead for freelancers in TV & Film. Unless you’re working on a Marvel/Harry Potter, the prospect of picking up work is dire indeed. Will have to bunker down & see if the phone rings again with a job offer variety.com/2025/film/gl...

This time next week I’ll be wrapped & de-rigging. Not that I’m panicking (I AM PANICKING) but any of you lovely folks need a DIT to offload/grade your rushes/make crew badges/wrap posters on long form drama & feature film projects? Please get in touch🙏🏾 #SetLife #FilmJobs

I loved, loved, loved The Ballad Of Wallis Island. Charming, sweet, achingly beautiful. A cinematic balm to this weary soul. Congrats to Tom Basden, Tim Key, James Griffiths & Carey Mulligan on making an instant British Classic. Please please please support this film at your local cinemas.

I promise you’ve never heard #NitKhairManga quite like this - This was Rushil Ranjan & Abi Sampa of Orchestral Qawwali Project along with many others, reinterpret a Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Qawwali classic

I’m asking this based on something that happened earlier this week. If you were surrounded by a crew full of excellent Black & Brown crew/Technicians and wanted to capture that moment, would that be offensive to the White crew if they weren’t included in the photo.

Watched #Sinners one last time at the BFI in 70mm IMAX. I may never get to work on an IMAX project or with DOP #AutumnDuraldArkapaw but I can take huge inspiration from what she did with this film. I can only wish & aspire to work on something of this scale with a crew that looks like this.

Feel for the crew who’ve been left in limbo & massively outta pocket | Simon Pegg Film ‘Angels In The Asylum’ Halts Shoot Indefinitely After Funding “Crisis” Leaves Crew, Producers & Suppliers Out Of Pocket deadline.com/2025/03/simo...

Bengali’s hate wonky collars😂

The world is going to hell in a hand basket but you’ve got GROWN adults with real jobs asking if Elmo is a card carrying Commie | Let me off at the next stop.

The independent regulator has announced a £2,500 pay rise for MPs. At a time when disabled people are facing the biggest cuts to disability benefits on record, this is simply wrong. I’ll be donating mine to charities supporting disabled people in Coventry & across the country.

Did anybody else watch the finale of Severance & listen to the song choice ‘Windmills of Your Mind’ & instantly think of the S2 finale of I Am Alan Partridge? I know @benstiller.redhour.com is a fan of Partridge so not sure if that was a small nod to the series (I could be massively reaching)

Look I’m just gonna float this idea. Happy to hear #TedLasso is coming back for a forth season. It’s going to concentrate on Richmond Women’s squad. If they can’t find a role for the OG female player Jess Bhamra in the series, seriously what are we doing?

Congratulationz to all my friends at Ted Lasso,,, I think we all need something to BELIEVE in right now ,,, and if y’all need Flavor Flav to step up and sponsor your women’s soccer team,,, I gots you. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 @jasonsudeikis.bsky.social

If you’ve watched #Adolescence on @NetflixUK & need a look at ‘Behind The Scenes’ to figure out how they did it all, then check this out! youtu.be/qCnFr-cQL6I?...

Reading these articles continue to scare me, makes me realise there may be no way back into the industry especially as a PoC | ‘I’ve felt very lost and insecure’: TV producers despair as work dries up www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

I love Song Exploder. Thank you @hrishikesh.co for having me on! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

This past year has left me questioning everything. Can not get hired by a DoP for love nor money. I can’t work out what I’ve said or done to the entire cinematography fraternity to be left in the cold like this. Genuinely would love to hear from DoP’s on what I’m lacking or can improve on

The love for Jessica Lee Gagné’s directorial debut on Severance is so rightly deserved (She still DoP’d the ep too) but curious why State-side DoP’s stepping up to direct is seen as natural whilst here in the UK that rarely happens.

Presenting the #Oscars    illustration of the 97th @theacademyusa.bsky.social Awards Best Picture Nominees 2025! #Oscars2025 #Conclave #ACompleteUnknown #EmiliaPerez #Anora #Wicked #Dune2 #TheBrutalist #ImStillHere #NickelBoys #TheSubstance

Anyone uploaded the #Liverpool v #ManCity montage cut to #LikeAPrayer that just closed out the Sky Sports coverage. A thing of beauty, whoever edited that piece, take a bow!!! There’s an art to editing live TV & this is a prime example of how to do it

Will enjoy the win today but attention will turn back to finding the next job on Monday Honestly just not sure what more I could be doing differently. At this stage, it feels like my name is radioactive to any & every DOP here in the UK. Would love to know from DOP’s what I should be doing different

No one warns you, that you spend your 40’s worrying the next sneeze or cough could be fatal, every time you crouch down it could lead to a slipped disc or worse, you get stuck & can’t get back up & you grow a heavy dependency on tiger balm, Vicks vapo rub & Ibuprofen

I see Emilia Perez has won best Foreign Language film at the #BAFTAs. I guess it does pay to make a racist, tonally deaf, ignorant film starring an Islamophobe & a director who claimed Spanish is the language of the poor and migrants, Take a bow the BAFTA voters👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤢🤢🤢

Oddly one of the most soothing videos you’ll ever watch | Can’t speak to how it tastes but would happily jump on a plane to Tokyo & check it out if there’s a halal chicken version | Japanese Food - The BEST BIRYANI in Tokyo! youtu.be/8vD4uh4aI3Q?...

Sat in my living room & watching the world go by. 6 weeks on from its cinema release, the adverts are still on the 102 bus. I’m usually guaranteed to see the poster once a day pass by my house. Nice reminder that I once use to work in the industry. #WeLiveInTime

At this stage, I’m not sure I can continue to read pieces like this, they’re just dragging me into a mental quagmire of no return | British TV Dramatists Lament “Austerity” Era As They Navigate Funding Crisis With No Easy Solutions deadline.com/2025/02/brit...

Incredible interview with Zül-Qarnaįn Nantambu, the cast member of Kendrick’s halftime show at the Super Bowl who unfurled the flags that read “Gaza/Sudan.” He took a helluva risk to make dissent visible in the face of a monster. Let it motivate us to do the same. youtube.com/shorts/iVKhi...

‘Bigger than the Queen’: the day Muhammad Ali blew Tyneside away | Wonderful piece written by ⁦‪IshyDin‬⁩ 🤲🏾 www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/f...

If you’re a lover of Cricket regardless of the divide, then I’d say check out this ‘breezy’ series that looks at the history between India & Pakistan.

Not asking for much, just some positive news from the UK industry would be nice. ‘We have to reset’: Britain’s TV industry struggling in big-budget streaming era www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...