Logan Tindell

Early Life (2003 - 2021) -

I was born in 2003 and spent the first few years of my childhood wanting to pursue palaeontology as a future career. I became infatuated with "Jurassic Park" (1993) - as well as the film's sequels - and started coming up with ideas for dinosaur films of my own. In 2009, my family moved to Lachen, Switzerland, which was when my fascination with filmmaking started. I became a fan of the sci-fi genre after watching "Star Wars" (1977) and the superhero-centered sub-genre after watching "Batman" (1989) and "Iron Man" (2008). As a result, I started conceiving my own stories for films associated with those two genres.

Moving back to Kent in 2011, the first filmmaker I properly started to recognize the work of was Steven Spielberg. Over the following 13 years and counting, I would recognize and idolise the films of Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Edgar Wright, Christopher Nolan, Hayao Miyazaki, John Hughes, and filmmaking duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.

From 2014, I wanted to find a school where I could learn about film academically; to no avail. Alternatively, throughout the 3 years I spent at St. Edmund's School in Canterbury, I was a prominent member of the Stage Crew which helped out behind-the-scenes for all of the school's prestigious drama productions. The closest I managed to get to a film-related course was studying both Photography and a course titled Creative Digital Media Production for my A-levels at The Whitstable School in Whitstable; I achieved distinction with both.

In 2020, I became interested in being affiliated with the animation industry after watching all the films of Studio Ghibli, the first season of "The Owl House" (which was new at the time), and rewatching the entirety of "Gravity Falls" (2012 - 2016); this was when the latter show's creator, Alex Hirsch, became a prominent inspiration of mine for writing comedy. I started to take up illustration as a hobby as a result; including gaining an interest in voice acting. However, when time came for me to decide what to study at University, I chose to focus on continuing my already decade-long pursuit to become a filmmaker and learn about the process of animation in my own personal time. I would focus on screenwriting at university therefore I can learn how to conceive coherent narratives to be adapted into either live-action or animation.

Around the same time, I engaged to pursue learning about music theory and song production. After a long period of time following a few months in 2013 of learning guitar, I reintroduced myself to the instrument in 2020. Over the next few years, I would also proceeded to start learning bass, ukulele, melodica and have recently started learning piano.

University Works (2021 - 2024) -

I started university in 2021; and would have various roles in the film crews I would be a part of throughout the 3-year course. In early 2022, I directed a black-and-white short horror film called "I Want a Divorce", which follows a woman's investigation on her partner's sudden supernatural behaviour. It was filmed with a Bolex 16mm camera. A few months later, I was sound mixer for "Window Cleaner", a short thriller detailing a window cleaner becoming eerily obsessed over a large house and its wealthy inhabitants. Although I am prominently interested in screenwriting, I decided to be sound mixer as a result of my ambition with music.

In 2023, I was a part of a small crew to create a short documentary called "A Maths Problem". The film explored a proclamation made by then-prime minister Rishi Sunak in which he wished mathematics being a mandatory subject for all kids nationwide to learn up until they are 18. In particular, the film elaborated how this would damage the future of the UK's internationally celebrated creative arts industry. My role in the crew was to educate the viewer on the country's creative arts industry, therefore I created an fictional historian parodying the character Bob Hale from the television adaptation of "Horrible Histories".

In 2024, I was script supervisor for the short thriller "Photogenic", which showcases a lonely photographer becoming uncomfortably obsessed with his neighbour and her family; only to be forced to interact with her one night due to unfortunate circumstances. About a month after "Photogenic" wrapped filming, I engaged upon one of the few acting gigs during this time of my life; playing an elusive 'Night Person' in "Creature Feature". The short film acted as the pilot episode for a wildlife documentary TV show hosted by a fictious charasmatic naturalist who specialises in mythological beings.

In the same year, I wrote the screenplay for what would be my grad-film: a crime comedy short called "The Extraordinary Marvel of Francesco Linguine". The film is about two friends discovering a dead body of a man floating on the River Thames; to which they then both exchange vibrant and absurd theories to reach a satisfying truth to how the man perished. The film's story was influenced prominently by the films of Guy Ritchie, alongside the narratives in the works of both Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino. The film won Best Student Drama at the 2025 Royal Television Society Southern Awards and would achieve 1st Runner up for Best Film at the 2024 winter showcase from the Alternative Film Festival in Toronto.

It was back during my first year of university when I started making "Welcome to the World of... the Kitchen Pimps", a documentary feature film showcasing the strong dynamic I shared with three of my housemates. It particularly shows how the dynamic evolves before and after one of those housemates leaves University early to start training for the marines. The idea of making a documentary feature film about my friends and I sparked for various reasons. At the time, I was watching documentaries for my course and was heavily underwhelmed at how they all carried grim topics that, despite their importance to be taught to audiences, exacerbated my attempts to escape reality.

Alongside acknowledging a substantial lack of films that accurately showcases life at university and visually elaborates the dynamic university students share with one another, I started conceiving the idea for a documentary that does; with myself and my housemates as the film's subjects. The obscure title is a reference to one joke that strengthened the bond between us. I recorded a majority of the film with my small video camera, and edited it myself. It was released on YouTube in 2022.

The following year, I released "Return to the World of... the Kitchen Pimps"; a sequel which documented us experiencing our second year of university, adjusting to private accommodation and dealing with the obstacles that come during early stages of adulthood. In 2024, I completed the trilogy by releasing the third and final film, "Anarchy to the World of... the Kitchen Pimps". The film showcased us surviving our final and chaotic year at university while simultaneously documenting our preparations on taking the leap to the next stage of our lives after graduation. 

Post University (2024 - ) -

In May 2025, I created the documentary short film "Starting Line" which acts as a 'behind-the-scenes' look at the first headline show of musician Matt Bawtree. The film was recorded at the Music Workshop in Folkestone. Later in the year, I volunteered at that year's Margate Film Festival.