Little Big Brother
When Miles prepares to leave home for university, an unexpected visitor arrives – his estranged older brother, Reggie. Unkempt and full of nervous energy, Reggie proposes a road trip to Scotland in his VW camper van, eager to reconnect before Miles starts his new life. What begins as a simple journey soon spirals into a chaotic adventure filled with roadside mishaps, drunken pub quizzes, and long-buried family tensions. As the brothers navigate their fractured relationship, some unresolved grief looms over them. While Miles struggles with resentment and Reggie hides behind humour and recklessness, both must confront their shared grief and the ways they’ve drifted apart.
The biggest challenge with this project was figuring out how to shoot a moving vehicle when the insurance covering our production did not allow us to film any moving vehicles. After some research, the director, Max Meadows, and I chose to shoot the parts of the production involving the campervan in front of a green screen. Two Sony FX6 cameras were used, combined with Blazar Remus anamorphic lenses, to give the film an epic, widescreen road-trip feel. A full video on the challenges presented by the production is coming soon, and will be linked on this page when released.
The film premiered at The Vue cinema in Westfield, London in July 2025. Praise was levelled at Max for the realistic portrayal of two brothers genuinely feeling very awkward around each other, and overall the general public found the vibrant colours and true widescreen aspect ratio to be reminiscent of classic road-trip movies. I personally have extremely fond memories of this production, despite the budget and number of days allocated to us to film it being astronomically small…
Director: Max Meadows
Cinematographer: Chris Tailor
Producer: Lily Allmark
Editor: Chris Tailor