A film produced by a Leeds Met graduate will be screened at this year's Bradford International Film Festival.

Matt Grimwood, who graduated from our University in 2004 with a degree in Moving Image Production, has since forged a career in the film and television industry.

He started his career as a runner on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing after graduating from Leeds Met, and went onto work predominantly in the production department on feature films and television dramas such as Broken Lines starring Paul Bettany and Olivia Williams; How To Be starring Robert Patinson and The Colour of Magic (a big budget adaptation of the Terry Pratchett book of the same name) starring Sean Astin and David Jason.

'Toshi' is his first short film as a producer, and has screened in Palm Springs, Moscow and Berlin.

The film is focused around awkward loser Toshi, a socially-inept young Japanese businessman who finds himself in London with a group of older colleagues who ignore and exclude him at every turn.

'Toshi' forms part of the 'Best of British 2009' slate run by Salford University and has been included in the film festival scheme run by the British Council.

The film's UK premiere will be when it screens as part of the SHINE competition at Bradford this March, before screening in New York in April.

Matt currently splits his time between his paid production work, as production manager and line producer, with his passion for producing and developing new projects, through his production company Lazarus Films (www.lazarusfilms.co.uk).