MIDNIGHT OIL

he advice for new writers is always to start off with something small and easy to film, but I heard Charlie Brooker speaking once and he said that was a terrible idea,” laughs David Macpherson, who worked for an environmental charity as his debut script. “When you’re a new writer, it’s the only time you don’t have to worry about budgets or other people, and you should just do the thing that you most want to see. This is the story I knew I had to get out of my head.”