spec screenplays
Madame Cluck
6x30min comedy-nightmare
A destitute employee at a late-night fast food restaurant desperately attempts to hang onto the one thing she has left: a scrap of dignity.
Only her manager, her colleagues, and her beloved customers stand in the way…
For Poorer
6x30min sitcom
A group of friends attempt to run a wedding planning business despite being uniquely unsuited to the task of planning weddings.
With the daily encroachment of insolvency, they’ll have no choice but to take on the next customers that come through the door...
Banglarama
8x60min melan-comedy
An ageing eco-warrior-cum-cult-leader struggles to convince the terminally bureaucratic borough council to implement climate change combatting measures.
Soon, he finds only one option remains: armed (with vegetables) rebellion.
produced short films
The Snail (2023)
Director: Robbie Gaynor
Producer: Marc Stewart
Writer: Neil Halpin
Social drama.
After being released from prison, Kyle struggles to reconstruct his life from the pieces that remain.
The Devil In Her Eyes (2023)
Director: Isabell Baughman
Producer: Matthais Pachner
Writer: Neil Halpin
Historical drama.
A witch pricker with a terrible secret hunts down a fearsome local witch - Isobel Gowdie of Auldearn.
other projects
Aberlour: The Way We Were (2024)
In May 2024, I was commissioned to create a film for the Heritage Centre in Aberlour, Scotland. Courtesy of the Ogg family, I had access to an incredible wealth of home video footage, dating from the 1950s right through to the 1980s; my task was to take the audio from interviews with locals and create a narrative that would explore how the history of the village had shaped its present.