Luke’s five year career ambition of an effortless movement between great commercial scripts, music videos for artist’s he admires and writing and directing feature films, seems to be well under way. Evidence of this is in the signing to 2AM in late 2009 where Luke has shot a viral for Autotrader, a commercial for Wrigleys, a digital film for LG, a music promo, and has just finalised his third film, a 15 minute short titled ‘DISCO’.

‘DISCO’ stars Bill Milner (Son of Rambow) and is much anticipated on the 2011 festival circuit. Set in 1997, the film charts the build up to a Year 9 school disco and features music by seminal pop bands Cast and Suede.

‘Mixtape’, also staring Bill Milner, is ‘DISCO’s’, precursor. Having won the Grand Prize in the 2009 Virgin Media Shorts competition, Luke’s second short really caught our attention. It also caught the attention of the BAFTA as it was nominated for Best Short Film in 2010. Luke only discovered he’d been nominated after sifting through a bizarre quantity of early morning texts, tweets and voice mails and on the night of the ceremony courteously allowed Dustin Hoffman into the gents first after being beaten to it, “I couldn’t go in there first, man...it’s Dustin Hoffman!”

A romance and nostalgia for his childhood, together with a love of music, is part of Luke’s inspiration for his filmmaking. Remarkably only in his mid twenties, Luke’s vision is accurate, cool, crisp and simple. A graduate of screenwriting at Bournemouth University, Luke always knew he wanted to direct but felt the need to get his hands dirty with the script, the writing and the character development before going into production. A ‘Best Newcomer’ nomination at the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival for his first short ‘Patrick’ was evidence of a path well chosen.

Luke has been recently featured in Shots magazine’s ‘New Directors Showcase’, The Telegraph, The Independent and was named as a Screen International ‘Star of Tomorrow, 2010’. Solid proof of an authentic ‘up and coming’ status.