Hi! I'm a filmmaker based in Melbourne Australia,
shooting, directing, writing and editing for TV, online TVCs,
short and long form narrative and documentary projects.
British by birth, Ghanaian by heritage and Australian by adoption, I studied architecture in London before getting my start on set, running on music videos. I then headed into post-production working in Soho at The Film Editors as assistant editor to Pamela Power, Ridley and Tony Scott’s commercials editor.
After becoming an editor and cutting TVC campaigns for brands ranging from Coca- Cola to Adidas I moved into making music videos as well as writing short films on the side. My first completed short screenplay won the BAFTA Focus On Talent Screenwriting award. Following this I was asked to write a radio play for BBC Radio 4.
Shortly after, I met my wife and moved to Australia where for three years I edited TV commercials at leading Melbourne post-production company Digital Pictures.
I currently shoot and direct as a freelancer and through my production company Thirdrow Films.
I've won two Melbourne Design Awards Gold Medals for video campaigns and an AWGIE (Australian Writers Guild Award) for my short screenplay LOVE HURTS. My first completed feature script IN THE BLOOD was green-lit for production by Screen Australia.
I’m also in the Guinness Book of Records.
CINEMATOGRAPHY & DIRECTING REEL
Gear List
OTHER STUFF
Apart from my love of motorbikes...
...I'm also a world record holder! As one of fifty screenwriters who contributed to the portmanteau feature film 50 Kisses. A crazy but brilliant competition where people voted online for the best short scripts which were then uploaded for anyone to direct. My script Neil was the most chosen project and went on to be made into eight different versions! Such a great learning opportunity! One version was eventually chosen to be included in the final feature, comprised of films of all fifty short scripts.
In my music video editing days I was lucky enough to cut Banksy's only known music video (yes I know what he looks like!). I remember as I attended the online at MPC London (who were doing us a great deal in overnight downtime) he would sneak off to work on one of his artworks on a wall downstairs. The management went ballistic when they walked in the next day to find someone had "graffittied" the wall! They actually moved a photocopier in front of it until the "youngsters" clued them in.
GENRE SCREENPLAYS
"Your mind is the lock. Genre is the key".
This is a collection of completed genre screenplays. Grounded and distinctive, low to mid-budget cross-genre thrillers set in both the Sci-fi and Horror spaces. The stories focus on strong dramatic themes around family and redemption mostly with distinctive central female characters, as well as visceral and meaningful action sequences.
IN THE BLOOD
Across a remote landscape cut by lonely highways, mountainous backroads and abandoned buildings Selina, a lethal but sickly vampire, arrives at a remote farm to abduct the only person whose blood can save her, someone she abandoned there fifteen years ago as a baby, her human son.
(Horror thriller)
(Previously production financed & green-lit by Screen Australia)
CONTROL-Z
At a lab in the remote highlands married research scientists Dr Hal Kirkland And Dr Bailey Adoh stumble across the secret to time travel, attracting the interest of a local cult, and triggering a dangerous web of connections that extend deep into the past.
(Sci-fi thriller)
THE LAST HORIZON
A terminally ill woman returns to a barren wasteland to retrieve what was lost, at all costs.
(Sci-fi action thriller)
SANDBOX
Set in the near future, a pregnant mother and her daughter attempting to flee a walled city survive a train derailment, only to find themselves trapped inside a container marooned in the desert, and stalked by a terrifying creature.
(Contained Sci-fi thriller)
AUSTRALIAN WRITERS GUILD
MONTE MILLER SHORT FORM AWARD WINNER
LOVE HURTS
Short screenplay
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER
GRACEFUL GIRLS
Feature documentary. MIFF 2015
Producer/editor: Nigel Karikari
MELBOURNE DESIGN AWARDS
GOLD MEDAL WINNER
ALFRED HEALTH "RIGHT WORD.RIGHT TIME"
Best Viral Video. Online Campaign
Writer/director: Nigel Karikari
GOV AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNER
ALFRED HEALTH "RIGHT WORD.RIGHT TIME"
Online Campaign
Writer/director: Nigel Karikari
BAFTA
FOCUS ON TALENT SCREENWRITING AWARD WINNER
STATIC
Short screenplay
IN THE BIN FILM FESTIVAL
BEST SHORT FILM AWARD WINNER
THE DEAL
Starring Australian legend Glenn Robbins.
Writer/director/editor: Nigel Karikari
