Joe Fordham, born in suburban South East England and educated by the same Jesuits that tormented Alfred Hitchcock as a child, began his career as a filmmaker in 1980 when he sold his bicycle and bought a Super 8 camera. The results confused and frightened many but introduced him to a small group of like-minded individuals who formed an award-winning amateur filmmaking unit known as Dangerous Visions.

After a dozen or so Super 8 productions, Joe connived his way into producing his first 16mm film while working in cutting rooms in London’s seedy Soho filmmaking community. His eight-minute short, Board Game, won BBC TV’s Showreel 86 and earned Joe a professional assignment, writing and directing Dogplant for Channel Four TV’s Four Minutes series in London.

Joe then fled the country and worked for ten years in visual effects, creature effects and postproduction in Los Angeles on productions including Terminator 2, Men in Black, Virus and two Species films. That was enough to convince him to pursue a writing career and for the last seven years Joe has been associate editor at Cinefex magazine, while screenwriting and moviemaking in the digital video format. The Glitch, Joe’s first narrative short movie in high definition, was opening film and finalist at Dragon*Con 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia, and finalist at the inaugural BAFTA/LA Short Film Festival.

Board Game (16mm, 8 minutes, Dangerous Visions, 1985)
Dogplant (16mm, 4 minutes, Channel Four Television, 1988)
The Glitch (HD, 13 minutes, Flashfilms, 2008)