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The Mapmaker (2012)
Character: Young Rowan
A short UK drama following an ageing couple who return to the seaside where they were happy 50 years earlier. Now their lives have changed and they face sadness and a difficult decision. The film includes flashbacks to their youthful romance.
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Cubs (2006)
Character: Ben
A boy tries to join a gang of inner-city kids, but learns that initiation comes at a price.
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Real Men (2003)
Character: Russell Wade
A powerful and disturbing two-part drama about sexual manipulation, the loss of innocence and betrayal of trust, starring Ben Daniels. A policeman's determination to solve the three-year-old case of an abducted schoolboy leads him to uncover a web of systematic abuse that is threatening to destroy the lives of vulnerable children
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In a Year (2018)
Character: Cam
An ambitious radio project is set up to give their listeners one last wish before the year is out.
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Oliver Twist (2005)
Character: The Artful Dodger
An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
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Hero of the Hour (2000)
Character: Brian
A security guard foils an armed robbery and becomes a national hero, but his new-found fame cannot appease his guilty conscience.
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Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
Character: Young Joe Scott
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970s Britain.
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Pure (2002)
Character: Paul
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
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Land of the Blind (2006)
Character: Shithead
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
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Ashes (2026)
Character: Harry
After fleeing a drug deal gone bad, vet Matt Benning tries to escape, but finds his previous problems have followed him.
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Nightswimming (2010)
Character: Luke
Runaways Luke and Ellen are caught breaking into an older, Victorian styled swimming facility one evening. As they only want a warm place to sleep, Martin, the person on patrol, lets them stay on the proviso that they don't break anything else. As Luke and Ellen go swimming in the pool, Luke spots Martin voyeuristically watching them. That small act begins an emotionally charged situation involving all three, but which was only supposed to involve Luke and Martin.
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Boys on Film 8: Cruel Britannia (2012)
Character: Luke (segment "Nightswimming")
From the cliffs of the Isle of Wight to an abandoned swimming pool in Lambeth, Boys On Film 8: Cruel Britannia presents an eclectic mix of ten UK-set short films including: Harry Wootliff's "I Don't Care" starring Iwan Rheon; Ben Peters's "Downing" starring Jamie Brotherston and Ross William Wild; David Andrew Ward's "All Over Brazil" starring Iain De Caestecker, Frank Gallagher, and Gemma Morrison; David Leon and Marcus McSweeney's "Man and Boy" starring Eddie Marsan, Geoff Bell, and Eddie Webber; Aleem Khan's "Diana" starring Neeraj Singh; Jason Bradbury's "We Once Were Tide" starring Alexander Scott, Tristan Bernays, and Mandy Aldridge; Hong Khaou's "Spring" starring Chris O'Donnell and Jonathan Keane; Sybil H. Mair's "The Chef's Letter" starring Jonathan Firth, Ray Fearon, and Layke Anderson; Faryal's "What You Looking At?!" starring Rez Kabir, Michael Twaits, and Hussina Raja; and Dominic Leclerc's "Nightswimming" starring Harry Eden, Linzey Cocker, and Tim Dantay.
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The Lazarus Child (2004)
Character: Ben Heywood
A desperate couple uses a doctor's controversial method to revive their comatose daughter.
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Peter Pan (2003)
Character: Nibs
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.
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