Dixon Barker

As a youngster Dixon Barker competed nationally in swimming and athletics. His love of sports took him to two Adidas ABC basketball camps where he competed at a semi-professional level. When injury struck at aged 19, Dixon began making music and was quickly signed to a record label, releasing two singles (CI1001 and FAM001) and touring throughout Europe. He has worked in the legendary Abbey Road studios with a variety of artists across a range of genres including M.F. Doom's Monster Island Czars (Brick 9014) and Belgian hip-hop/funk super-crew De Puta Madre. After being involved in a range of underground art pursuits and travelling extensively, Dixon went on to achieve a First-Class Honours degree in English & Creative Writing. He studied screen writing with ITV producer Professor Stephen Hawes, and undertook a Masters' course with producer, screen-writer and long-time Monty Python contributor Bernard Mckenna. Dixon's short fiction has been published in the Litmus Anthology (for which he also did the cover art) and 2014's Eating Our Words compendium. He has also self-published two short works of inter-connected fiction, The Funerals at Christmas and Teeth, under his own creative company, A Gang of Giants. In 2012 he oversaw the implementation of the U.K's only 'free bar', becoming creative head the same year. Furthermore, Dixon is a PGCE qualified English teacher and has lectured education and film at College and University in both the U.K and Japan. He continues to lead seminars in Film and Education.