I work in documentary development, mostly on historical projects that are still too messy to film properly. That usually means months of reading, calling people, checking archive leads, and trying to work out whether there is actually a story there or just a pile of interesting fragments.

A lot of my work has been around Caribbean history, family memory, land, migration, and records that do not sit in one place. I am less interested in the polished version of history and more interested in how people explain what they inherited, what they were told, and what the documents do or do not confirm.

I keep development folders for each project, but they are never as tidy as I want them to be. There are transcripts, archive stills, estate names, voice notes, location photos, and questions I keep coming back to. Some projects become films. Some stay as notes for years.