theo grew up in south london and watched films on his dads battered betamax and did tae kwon do and when he was seventeen he trained as a hairdresser but couldnt master the wet look perm so he waited tables at little chef and then manned the tills at blockbusters and if that isnt a cliche trajectory for a filmmaker then he doesnt know what is but proofs in the pudding because his latest short film jealous people are ugly people had its world premier at sxsw film festival and all three of his previous short films premiered at the bfi london film festival and the feature version of jealous people is being produced by the fold and temple hill and his second feature is in development with bbc film and he has three original series in development with clerkenwell films and kudos and hot sauce and hes currently writing on the creator of peaky blinders new series for bbc but all of that came with a price because now he cant do a reverse jumping roundhouse kick anymore but he can weirdly say any word you can think of backwards which isnt the reason he got signed to independent or anonymous content nor is it because he hates grammar and capital letters but despite being pretty fucking good at his job he just lets his work speak for itself which is always the moment he wishes he liked full stops