The Most Recent Stuff
So, let me start with the current stuff, before descending to The Vault.
Walking the Camino
In May of 2025, I spent seven days with four members of my family. We walked the last hundred kilometres of the Camino de Santiago.
It was a memorable & (for me) tough experience.
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Twenty years before, Nicky & I walked a different route to Santiago.
Here's the film that I made about that.
Ten days in the Yukon
When my brother-in-law came out for a visit in 2024, we decided that we would go to somewhere that we had not previously visited.
The Yukon had long been on my late wife's & my bucket list.
We had a friend in Whitehorse who had offered us a place to stay, so off we went.
I had bought myself a drone earlier in the year: it proved a useful toy.
I've bundled four videos into a playlist.
Nicky's Diaries
In 1962, as a recently-minted physiotherapist, Nicky & her friend Sue headed to Australia, to work for two years.
They were part of an Aussie initiative called the Assisted Passage.
Nicky kept a diary. Excerpts are linked in the green panel.
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In 2007, Nicky went back to Oz, with me in tow.
I brought my camera, & during the month that we spent there, she reminisced about her time Down Under in the 1960s.
Here's a link to that doco.
Communications Team
From The Vault
Right, time to go back to the beginning, or as near as I can get.
Remember that HD was not the norm in 2000, & my gear was not as sophisticated as it is today.
So, please view these early efforts as a kind of time capsule.....
One Stone For Every Infant
I met Glen Hodges through my job at the City of Vancouver. Soon after he arrived at Mountain View Cemetery in 2002, as the new manager, he found out that I was a filmmaker. This was the first of many collaborations.
2002.
Postcard From Iona
Nicky & I love travel. We found an advert for a one week stay on Iona, an island off the coast of Scotland. We stayed at a retreat centre on the island.
As luck would have it, our parish priest at the time, the Rev. Christine Rowe was there during the same week.
2003.
Truckstop Dining
I met Tara through Don Grayston, an Anglican priest. He had told me about a friend of his who had used her food truck to prepare & serve a meal to the needy on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Next time that she did this, I followed her, camera in hand .
2009.
The Man From Vercana
This project started when a second cousin of mine, Joan Broe, contacted me to ask about my side of the Caprani family tree.
This spawned the idea of making a film about the man that we all descended from: one Guisseppe Fidele Caprani.
Joan, Nicky & I spent a week in Northern Italy, a week in London & one in Dublin.
Once I had edited the film together, Nicky & I returned to Dublin for the World Premiere. What a blast !
2014.
Performing the Gospel
Angus Stuart is a priest who set himself the task of memorizing, then performing, the Gospel of Mark.
I spent a couple of days with him as he prepared for a staging of the work at a North Vancouver church.
2014.
The Last Ten Years or so.
With better equipment & more experience, I produced some work that I'm quite proud of.
I continued to work with Mountain View Cemetery, as well as the Diocese of New Westminster.
There was also a trip to Europe to make a film about WWI.
Burkeville
Burkeville is a tidy enclave within the shadow of the Vancouver Airport (YVR). Our friend Gail asked me to help publicize the community's opposition to YVR's proposed expansion into their back yards.
Countdown to Sanctuary Wood
One of the most satisfying stories that I've ever told. A local Ladner lad who fought & died in WWI.
We got to travel to the UK & Belgium, & to show the finished film to an invited audience at a theatre in Ladner.
A link to the film is in the panel.
My reflections about the Premiere can be viewed here.
Street Outreach Initiative
Rev. Matthew Johnson works on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, ministering to a marginalized group of people. It is difficult, demanding & at times rewarding work.
He wanted people in the wider Anglican community to understand the nature of his work. We spent a few days filming on the streets of his "parish".
It is the only time that I have ever needed a minder to keep me safe.
An unforgettable experience.
The S.S. Princess Sofia
The sinking of the SS Princess Sofia in 1918 is British Columbia's worst maritime disaster.
Mountain View Cemetery is where most of the victims were laid to rest. In 2018 Glen Hodges commissioned a musical piece to commemorate the centennial of this tragedy.
The work was premiered in the Reception Hall at Mountain View.
I found it to be a profoundly moving experience: I was in tears by the end of the performance.
The Anglican Diocese
Over the course of about fifteen years, I made a series of films with my friend Randy Murray, the Communications Officer for the diocese.
We made short PSA type films; explainer videos for the annual Synod; information films about a wide range of topics.
The most stressful -- & rewarding -- series was at the start of the Pandemic: April 1st, 2020, to be precise.
Over the course of that day, we filmed four different services, for use during the upcoming Holy Week.
Archbishop Melissa gave the homily for the Easter Sunday service.
It was an inspiration message at a time when the world did not know what was about to unfold.
The Unreliable Narrator
Here is a collection of stories about growing up near Dublin in the middle of the twentieth century.
It's an ongoing project: I have three more episodes to record.
Enjoy the playlist.
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