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SANDY THOMSON

Writer / Director

JEREMIAH REYNOLDS

Writer / Actor

The creative duo are the co-founders of Squad Walk Films. They have been making internationally collaborative film and theatre together for over a decade.


Feature Films In Development

A SHARP ARROW

In 1695, a newly widowed woman fends off the envious neighbour who covets her land, but when he accuses her of witchcraft she needs all of her wits to survive the trials of Law, Church and the community she’s cared for all her life. 

  • Official Selection for the Celtic Screen Talent Showcase

  • Official Selection for the New York Women In Film & Television ‘The Writer’s Lab’

  • Finalist at the Nashville Film Festival

SALT WATER BLOOD

When an islander with no memory of her past discovers that her husband has kept a devastating secret throughout their twenty year marriage, she sets out to fill the gaps in her memory and face down truths that will test everything she believes and everyone she loves.

  • Winner of the Nashville Film Festival Screenplay Competition


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NIGHT SHIFT

A young man who doesn’t know how to express himself fights to understand his feelings whilst making a cup of tea for his dying grandmother. A spoken word film about family, love and end of life care.  

Director Sandy Thomson

Featuring Music from Grammy Award Winner FEMKE

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A working class man confronts generations of false belief that everyone starts on the same rung of the ladder in the pursuit of the American Dream.

Directors Sandy Thomson & Ryan Booth

AMERICAN DREAM

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CRYBABY HILL

In 1943 a woman of color is struggling to keep her land in rural Kentucky, so when she finds a baby hidden in her scarecrow and the spirit of her dead sister haunting her field she has to decide if she owes anything to the living or the dead.  A Southern gothic story about the most vulnerable of people and the economics of staying safe. 

Director Sandy Thomson

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SILVER STAR

When an elementary school teacher’s first lockdown drill goes terribly wrong he’s traumatized and has to wrestle with his own demons and the urge to be a good guy with a gun in his efforts to keep his students safe.

Director Sandy Thomson

Featuring Music from Grammy Award Winner Jordan Reynolds

Sandy Thomson is a Writer / Director based in Scotland. She has written for and directed film and theatre, alternative reality games as well as audio and visual journeys. She is the recipient of a Playwright Studio Scotland Award and in 2020 was selected for The New York Women in Film and Television The Writer’s Lab as well as Scotland’s curated screenwriting development program Write4Film. Her published plays have been Critics Award nominated, received 5 star reviews as well as inclusion in international showcases. Commissions include The National Theatre of Scotland, Dundee Rep, Cultura Inglesa Festival and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is currently in development for her debut feature film as a director.

Jeremiah Reynolds is an American actor, writer and producer.  He trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he was awarded the James Bridie Silver Medal and is the recipient of the Stage Award for Acting Excellence nomination at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. As Associate Director of theatre company Poorboy, he facilitated sweeping narratives that toured globally. Now based in Nashville, TN, Jeremiah produces internationally collaborative film projects in the UK and USA, making it a habit to wrangle wonderfully impossible ideas into realities.