Scientist. Filmmaker. Outdoorsman.

My path into filmmaking began at the University of St Andrews, where I was completing a PhD in geomorphology and serving as Captain of the University Cycling Club. A filming competition gave me the first occasion to point a camera at something I cared about. What followed was not an immediate career change but a slow and deliberate accumulation of craft alongside the scientific work: late evenings editing footage, early mornings on hillsides with a camera, the gradual realisation that making films was where my attention and energy naturally went.

The geomorphology doctorate shaped how I approach a production. Scientific training instils a particular way of observing and analysing: attention to detail, tolerance for complexity, the discipline to look at what is actually there rather than what you expect to see. That disposition translates directly into cinematography. The best landscape shots come from patience and observation, not from arriving at a location and pointing the camera at whatever seems obvious.

The UCI Mountain Bike World Cup circuit provided a different kind of education. Working as a performance analyst, I spent years inside elite sport: studying movement, reading races, understanding the micro-decisions that separate a podium result from a mid-field finish. When I turned the camera on riders in competition, I was not guessing at what would happen next. I knew. That knowledge is visible in the footage. Sport filmed by someone who understands it from the inside has a different quality from sport filmed by someone watching it for the first time.

I built Morrocco Media around those two foundations over more than twenty years. The client list grew from the Scottish Highlands outward: regional tourism partnerships first, then national campaigns, then broadcast commissions, then work with governing bodies and international organisations. The BBC, Scottish Rugby, British Cycling, VisitScotland and the Scottish Government all came in time, as did long-term relationships with individuals like the adventurer and broadcaster Mark Beaumont, with whom I have worked across more than a decade of expeditions and projects.

In 2024, I co-founded Quiet Eye Productions Ltd, a dedicated sport and adventure documentary company built on the foundations that Morrocco Media had established in the sport and adventure space. Quiet Eye focuses on broadcast-standard sport documentary, sports programming and adventure film commissions. Morrocco Media continues its work in tourism, corporate and commercial production and maintains the post-production and colour grading services that sit at the technical core of both companies.