writer/director 😇 directing fiction @NFTSFilmTV 🏫 raps @WRSTWRLDPRBLMS 🎤
Joined November 2011
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27 Sep 2024
Had a nice chat with @WeAreDN about Margin 🥹🫶🏽
27 Sep 2024
Dir. @danielrands discusses playing with perspectives by placing a handheld camera in the thick of his uncomfortable classroom set battleground drama short 'Margin' where racial tensions & societal issues ignite a contentious power struggle directorsnotes.com/2024/09/2…
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3 Dec 2025
Tomorrow night 👀 @d_whitehouse
3 Dec 2025
A bloodied stranger begs for help at Lenny's door... then calmly asks for an autograph once he recognises who he's with 👀
Play for Today: A Knock at the Door. Watch | Stream on 5
#playfortoday #LoganMersh #AlanDavies #scene
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30 Nov 2025
Written by @d_whitehouse directed by me - this Thurs at 9pm x
30 Nov 2025
A knock at the door is just the beginning. What follows is a dark, twisted night 😰 Would you open the door? 🫣
Play for Today: A Knock at the Door. Watch | Stream on 5
#playfortoday #NikkiAmukaBird #LoganMersh #AlanDavies #scene
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25 Nov 2025
I made this! It’s on next week thurs 4th December at 9pm on @channel5_tv 🤓
Alan Davies leads the cast of Channel 5's latest #PlayForToday drama #AKnockAtTheDoor. More details:
tvzoneuk.com/post/pr-playfor…
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13 Nov 2025
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13 Nov 2025
I wrote one of the episodes for the newly relaunched Play For Today. This is about that:
independent.co.uk/arts-enter…
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29 Oct 2025
A KNOCK AT THE DOOR coming soon to your tellies x
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18 Aug 2025
had the absolute pleasure of directing David’s taut, sharp writing for your screens - make sure to tune in 📺
18 Aug 2025
I’ve written a bit of TV. It’s called Intruder and stars Alan Davies and Nikki Amuka-Bird. It’ll be on later in the year.
televisual.com/news/5-reveal…
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18 Aug 2025
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18 Aug 2025
Thrilled to have worked with such great writers & directors, Simon Warne & Lydia Marchant (Never Too Late) and David Whitehouse (Intruder). Sara Harrak (Never Too Late) and Daniel Rands (Intruder).
Play for Today coming soon to Channel 5.
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18 Aug 2025
got to direct these guys 🫶🏽
18 Aug 2025
Intruder — a real-time thriller. Once a national treasure, Lenny (Alan Davies) hides from scandal until a bleeding stranger arrives with buried secrets. Across one night, he & wife Maggie (Nikki Amuka-Bird) face guilt, truth & the past that won’t stay silent.
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18 Aug 2025
Was a pleasure to direct Intruder for @vertigofilmuk as my first piece of telly
18 Aug 2025
Thrilled to be partnering with Channel 5 on the revival of Play for Today, supporting talent from lower-income backgrounds. From the darkly comic Never Too Late to the tense thriller Intruder, we’re excited to bring bold, original stories to the screen.
theguardian.com/media/2025/a…
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26 Sep 2024
Blessed to premiere my short film Margin online with @UKfullyfocused - watch and share pls 🥹 youtu.be/4zYCGNHZxqM?si=VgH3…
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Daniel Rands (teeny) retweeted
23 Jul 2024
Morning! Find your Joy! It can be done!
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21 Feb 2024
also, this slaps. this slaps harder than you can possibly imagine
20 Feb 2024
NFTS Graduate Showcase 2024
First Look: Fiction
Tapeworm
Trapped in a cycle of debt, years as witness and accessory to cold-blooded exploitation have hardened Worm. A final gamble for freedom allows her a chance to regain her humanity and autonomy over her fate.
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Pleasant. Cute. Tame. This film that I wrote with @DanielRands is none of those things 🪱
@NFTSFilmTV
20 Feb 2024
NFTS Graduate Showcase 2024
First Look: Fiction
Tapeworm
Trapped in a cycle of debt, years as witness and accessory to cold-blooded exploitation have hardened Worm. A final gamble for freedom allows her a chance to regain her humanity and autonomy over her fate.
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21 Feb 2024
🪱 the trailer for my @NFTSFilmTV grad film TAPEWORM is out now 🪱 I hope you enjoy it 😈
20 Feb 2024
NFTS Graduate Showcase 2024
First Look: Fiction
Tapeworm
Trapped in a cycle of debt, years as witness and accessory to cold-blooded exploitation have hardened Worm. A final gamble for freedom allows her a chance to regain her humanity and autonomy over her fate.
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12 Dec 2023
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12 Dec 2023
Congrats @TriciaTuttle on your appointment as Director of the Berlinale. We will really miss you @NFTSFilmTV. But what a job! You will be brilliant. hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
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25 Aug 2023
uh oh it’s a Sean Kingston - Take You There kinda day again
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8 Jun 2023
loved going to this fest ☺️
Throwback Thursday📆
In our 2021 event we opened with the fantastic mockumentary ‘South African Spook Hunter’👻
Hilariously funny, creepy and a great example of what can be achieved on a small budget, it went on to win our ‘It cost How Much?’ And rightfully so❤️🏆
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15 May 2023
❤️🔥watchHELLSPAWNnow❤️🔥@ShortoftheWeek shortoftheweek.com/2023/05/1…
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12 May 2023
Killing Boris Johnson agging the @GBNEWS gang - more life Musa 🙏🏽 the film is special 🥊
'I thought this has got to be a parody surely - what are we playing at in this country? It’s absolutely shocking.'
Lee Anderson discusses a new film called 'Killing Boris Johnson', which has been selected for Cannes Film Festival.
🖥 GB News on YouTube bit.ly/3vAYaw0
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