He worked in television for 8 years, before turning his attention to making films. He was an assistant producer on director Mustapha Kseibaiti’s film “Skateboards & Spandex”, before going on to write, produce, direct, act and edit a 6-minute short comedy film called ‘The List’ in 2012. The short was met with critical acclaim, and Dean was taken on by executive producer Yann Demange to be a trainee director on Channel 4’s popular TV Drama ‘Top Boy’. Dean trained with Director Jonathan Van Tulleken and producer Laura Hastings-Smith on series 2.