 At the same time he was film and video producer for the avant-garde theatre company Moving Being, regularly touring throughout Western Europe with such acclaimed shows as "Brecht in 1984" and "The Influence of the Moon on the Tides".After the success of "Voice Over", he was invited to show his films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and shortly thereafter he moved to Los Angeles to work with producer Ed Pressman of "Badlands" fame.His graduation short, a comic rendering of the life of 8th Chinese poet Han Shan, "Cold Mountain", was the opening film of the first ever British Festival of Independent Film in 1974.