His film scores have been heard in hundreds of film festivals around the world including BFI London, Raindance and Sitges. In September 2017 his score for Waking David was nominated for best score in a feature film at the Southampton International Film Festival and his first feature film, Gregor (2014), was nominated in the British Independent Film Awards. Roly holds a Bachelor's degree from Oxford in Modern Languages and an MPhil from Cambridge in Linguistics, as well as an MA from City University in Composing for Moving Images.