Kieran Hanson (sound recording) and Andy Lawrence (camera) with Dr Elena Barabantseva as she interviews Daniel He (far left) and Kevin But for her research film British Born Chinese
F4F Filmmaking creates for research, policy and mainstream documentary. 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 broadcast content, filmmaking services, 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 AHRC Research Film of the Year award for our collaboration with Professor Stephen Linstead on his film Black Snow (2017), and for our efforts in establishing documentary practice as a research method. Our policy orientated work 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 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. More recently, our co-production and Olaf Lawrence's directing debut, Green Ocean Gold (2024) , picked up second prize in the environmental shorts category at the Hawaii International film Festival in Honolulu.
We also exist under the banner of AllRitesReversed for cinema and broadcast work, such as One Long Journey (2016) and Half Elf (2021).
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.
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