Born in 1977 in Oxford, UK. He was an editor of 9 Songs directed by Michael Winterbottom and made his debut feature,The Road to Guantanamo, which he co-directed with Winterbottom, won the Best Director award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006. He travelled to Thailand to film Moving to Mars (2009), a documentary about Karen refugees fleeing from Burma to the UK for which he won the prestigious Grierson Award for Best Documentary.