My award-winning short film “Silence” is now available on VIMEO

https://player.vimeo.com/video/170725982 After two successful years on the LGBT Festival circuit, I'm proud to share our film with all of you. It features the beautiful music of Thea Hilberts, the stunning cinematography of Paul Leeming, and the extraordinary performances by Qyoko Kudo and Tomoko Hayakawa. And I was the Director x Writer (plus it's inspired by …

LOST HOPE, A CREEPY SHORT FILM FROM JAPAN

"Lost Hope" is a creepy new short horror film from one of the makers of the "Silent Hill: Stolen Heart" fan film and DJ Mistress Macabre a.k.a Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc who is a best selling, award winning author of Horror Sinisteria. The short film was filmed on the Nexus Android Phone using the VHS-Cam …

The reviews are in! “The Last Time” is a critical success!

Here's something you might like! Great cinematography, great visuals, great everything! Give it a shot and tell us what you think! 😀 Posted by The Spotlight Spectrum on Friday, 25 September 2015 And here's a quote from "We are indie Horror": "Hamish has taken a nightmare story from his personal history and has turned it into …

New Music Video “The Last Time” directed by Hamish Downie

Released today. I ask you to please tweet this video using the hashtag #stoptheviolence Let's make a change in the world.

Robyn Loau – “The Last Time” – Music Video Teaser #stoptheviolence

I'm proud and a little scared to share this with all of you. I hope you like the teaser trailer.

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.” – Pablo Picasso

Hello readers, It's been a while, hasn't it? I've been busy promoting my short film, "An American Piano", which is on the last leg of it's world tour (next stop TIFF Kids 2015). I thought I'd weigh in my thoughts on the ramifications of the "Blurred Lines" case. No, not the issues with it promoting …

#100gratefulDays Never Let You Down

About four years ago, I got the chance to make a music video for Robyn Loau. It was the first professional shoot I'd ever done, having only previously made a short animation, and a TVC parody at university ten years prior. That leap of faith Robyn and her management team made in me has lead …

Is this the next Gangnam Style?

http://youtu.be/IDAlZ7PDMDU In the wake of the huge success of Psy's Gangnam Style, come Japan's answer - World Order. Headed by a very handsome former MMA-fighter, this cool, chilled-out 5AM type song could really make some noise. It's got a great video, with some nice dancing - very perfume. It encompasses all that we know about …

Flashback: Location scouting for Robyn Loau’s “Never Let You Down” music video

As we are just beginning to finally see the finish line on our short film, "An American Piano", I thought it might be fun to look back on what got all of this started - making the music video for Robyn Loau's "Never Let You Down". There were three location scouts for this project. First, …

Happy New ‘ear

In 2011, Paul and I made a music video for my all-time favourite singer, the divine Ms. Robyn Loau. We also made a short horror film which sits at #36 on Konami's Top 50 fan-films. In 2012, we began working on the WW2 feature script "A Place Like Home", and capped the year off by …