An Innovator and Founder: film, tv, video games, real estate, countercultural diversity LGBTQ+ brand, with venue, events, charity, film distribution, and talent management arms.

Phil's main business interest in film is Head Gear, a film, TV and video games investment company; Bankside Films, an international film sales and production company; as well as a number of other corporate investments in the sector; Bohemia Media, film distribution of underrepresented (LGBTQ, cultural diversity, disability, female voices); (Yet) Another Distribution Company and (Yet) Another Monster Company, which do what they says on the tin;

He has produced or executive produced over 500 feature films, in the past quarter of a century. Head Gear Films is one of the world’s largest financiers of independent film, investing in around 40 projects a year.

Other aspects of Phil's career include being a BAFTA voting member; a mentor to National Film and Television producing students and others; a regular speaker on the industry circuit; a founder of the British Film Festival of Kurdistan, Iraq; a Patron of The Death, Penalty Project; Advisor to Raindance Film Festival and Rome MIA Market.

Phil began producing feature films in the mid-90s with micro-budgets, which occasionally found more than a micro audience.

Prior to the film business, in a pre-digital universe a very long time ago….he was an advertising and music photographer and worked with such bands as Big Audio Dynamite. He sporadically dusts off his Hasselblad.