Dan Straw's Reel

A rough and raw documentary about self discovery. It's time to get lost. Watch Tom as he finds out what it truly means to get lost in the moment.

A documentary of two students from the UK embracing a simpler lifestyle with in Indian culture.

This short is a project that myself and a couple of my friends did in our second year of university. The piece was made for a module called creative contemporary practice. The idea of the film is to show the workings of a dream and to show how a persons dream world fits with in the reality of the real world. There is no narrative or real structure to the short, it simply tries to capture and relate to the dream state.

Sinantisi is a 90 second short film classic of boy meets girl. It's love at first sight however there is one problem. They both speak different languages. Made for the "Languages Through Lenses 2010" Competition, part of the Prix Europa Festival in which the task was to promote the learning of languages. Watch as the two love birds conquer the barrier of language and see how love prevails.

This is a graduate film that I worked on in my final year at the Northern Film School. The film tells the tale of a boy and his imaginary friend, Clive.

A documentary drama on the advancement of medical knowledge and the role Nurses have played throughout it.

A song made for summer. A girl awakes one morning to find her boyfriend missing and in his place, a cassette tape player. Curiously she plays the tape and a song begins to play. Opening the curtains she discovers a note left by her boyfriend and quickly realises that she must follow the clues in order to reach the final surprise set up by her boyfriend. "Wake Up Next To You" is a song written and performed by Ollie Buchanan. Ollie is an up-and-coming songwriter/composer based in London. Check out his soundcloud for more of his music: soundcloud.com/olliebuchanan

"A Small Price To Pay" is a short 30 second anti-piracy advertisement made for the Kodak Student Commercial competition of 2011. 1st Place in its brief. 3rd Place overall winner.