Impact films for researchers

Our background in academia means that we understand the importance of communicating research impact. And, as research-led filmmakers, we do this through a variety of formats, including narrative documentaries, educational films, lecture and event recordings, and interview-based video.

This ensures that the impact you and your team are creating is made accessible to the most appropriate audiences and expressed in ways that count for assessment exercises such as REF2029.

We also make films as project outputs in their own right. This involves developing work alongside or as part of your investigation (sometimes involving us as official project collaborators, other times via commission).

It may include co-productions with academics, project participants and research collaborators, submitting films for peer-review, or producing films to reach novel audiences through film festivals and other distribution outlets. As with all our work, we frame such film activities in strategically sensible ways in relation to REF and other impact and engagement metrics.

Filmic research harnesses the capacity of film to ask different kinds of research questions from those possible in written media, and its outputs can be distributed beyond the usual academic channels.

We regularly produce smaller-scale, exploratory film shoots, during which we create audio-visual material for your use in a variety of contexts. We might, for example, film research activities in an archive, or engagements with local communities, or fieldwork being done at specific sites of interest. This type of film can be formatted for educational use, for public audiences, or indeed for internal research purposes, and is a great starting point for using film in your research.