F4F on location for British Born Chinese
F4F film production creates for research and policy within the university sector. Our team includes award-winning filmmakers with broadcast industry experience. We have skills in ethnographic research and a global network of specialist knowledge through our links with academia. We offer filmmaking services, PhD and Masters programme teaching and supervision, project consultation and ethnographic research. Our means of exploration and the mode of expression are both achieved through filmmaking but if necessary we write an accompanying article, statement or report. Horror In The Andes (2019), directed by Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, examines how filmmakers in the Peruvian highlands use narrative genre to re-imagine history in a way that supports an alternative contemporary national identity. In 2018, we were overjoyed to receive the prestigious Arts and Humanities Research Council Research (AHRC) Film of the Year award for Black Snow (2017) with Professor Stephen Linstead and for our efforts in establishing documentary practice as a research method. Our policy orientated work at the University of Manchester includes films on food insecurity, employment, workplace safety and poverty and it has attracted support from the Economic and Social Research Council, The Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Union of Mineworkers. In 2014 we won the Economic and Social research Council (ESRC) Award for Social Responsibility, for our short film The Works, about BAME employment opportunities in Manchester. Our project team are unique because they work at university research level and as professional filmmakers. Half Elf (2020) was directed by Jón Bjarki Magnússon as his graduation film from the Masters in Visual Anthropology programme at the Berlin Free University under supervision from Andy Lawrence. F4F continued the collaboration and helped Jón secure broadcast on Netflix and Disney+. Recently, we co-produced Olaf Lawrence's directing debut, Green Ocean Gold (2024), which collected second prize in the environmental shorts category at the Hawaii International film Festival in Honolulu.
Please contact us if you would like to know how we can help you with your academic research, documentary work, films for policy-makers or personal filmmaking project.