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Films & Projects
Heart Valley
Producer - Heart Valley . Out now with The New Yorker & BBC iPlayer.
Winner of the BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Short Film, Tribeca Film Festival for Best Documentary Short and one of The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 23 Short Documentaries of 2022. Nominated for The Grierson Award for Best Documentary Short.
Heart Valley follows a day in the life of Welsh shepherd Wilf Davies.
Wilf’s perspective on life struck a chord with many in the height of lockdown, following a Guardian article that went viral in 2021. He has never left his valley, eats the same meal every day and works his farm alone, where his family of over one hundred black-spotted sheep rely on him. And yet, he wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
Although faced with a rapidly changing farming community, Wilf’s inquisitive attitude and connection to nature provoke big questions about what it is we should truly value.
Directed, Cinematography & Edited by Christian Cargill
Produced by Christian Cargill, Lily Wakeley & Kiran Sidhu
Written by Kiran Sidhu
Music Composed by Erland Cooper
Sound Design by Guy Chase
Graded by Max Ferguson-Hook at Time Based Arts
Design by Treyvond Thomas & Daniel Grieshofer
AWARDS
Winner – BAFTA Cymru Award, Best Short Film
Winner – Tribeca Film Festival, Best Documentary Short
Winner – British Shorts Berlin, Audience Award
Winner – Young Director Award at Cannes Lions, Silver Screen Award
Winner – The Kinsale Shark Awards, Best Documentary Short
Winner – Bolton Film Festival, Best Documentary
Winner – Shorts México, Best International Documentary
Winner – Wales Film Festival, Jury’s Award for Best Short Documentary
Nominated for The Grierson Awards 2023, Best Documentary Short
Nominated for BAFTA Cymru Award 2023, Best Factual Cinematography
Shortlisted for The IDA Documentary Awards
Finalist – The British Short Film Awards
Finalist – The Music+Sound Awards
Finalist – The South London Film Festival
PRESS
The Guardian | The New Yorker | BBC World – Talking Movies Review
BBC News (June 22) | The Hollywood Reporter | BBC News (May 22)
Cinematic Faves Review | BBC Radio Wales | The Rolling Tape Podcast
Sustainable Food Trust | taz – Germany
Farmers Weekly | North Wales Live | Wales Online | Nation Cymru
NHS Borderlands
An investigative documentary into the human cost of charging migrants for accessing the NHS. Premiered at Naples Human Rights Film Festival.
After fleeing persecution in Zimbabwe in fear for her life, Angela sought asylum in the UK where she has lived with her husband for 20 years. Following a vital hysterectomy operation Angela is - without warning - issued a bill for £8,000 by the NHS, jeopardizing her life in the UK forever. Angela's story exposes the real cost of the recent introduction of NHS charges for migrants, where discrimination undermines our society's commitment to universal healthcare. The most vulnerable are left unable to pay and scared to seek care. There are many stories like Angela's, most untold and undocumented. This film documents how healthcare workers and campaigners are fighting alongside Angela to keep the border out of hospitals.
The film is being used as an educational tool by Docs Not Cops, who are campaigning to eradicate borders within healthcare.
This film was made by the collective Bare Life Films. After meeting at SOAS University and then working in migrant rights, we felt compelled to come together to respond to the government's recent 'hostile environment measures'.
Too often headlines reduce migrants to a crisis of costs and numbers, rendering their humanity dispensable. This dangerously obscures the violent racism these policies espouse to those who do not experience it.
The Lockdown Lowdown
Lockdown Lowdown is an audio-visual documentation of women affected by the criminal justice system during lockdown, funded by Phakama.
Treating COVID-19 as a health, social, economic and political crisis, we ask what can these stories tell us about access to care, community and safety?
