Born and brought up in the UK, Peter has lived and worked in France, Egypt, India, and the Palestinian territories. Since 2000, he has been based in Belgium. He holds a Master’s in Transmedia from Sint Lukas Hogeschool, Brussels, and is currently an LSM research fellow at MAD Faculty (PXL/UHasselt), where he is preparing a practice-based PhD on vernacular video and documentary practice after the Arab Spring. His short films are distributed by the Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris), and have been widely shown at festivals. His first feature-length film, The Uprising (Rien à voir production/Third Films), débuted at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in 2013, where it won the Opus Bonum award for best world documentary.