D o c u m e n t a r y
D o c u m e n t a r y
WINTER GARDENS
Inspired by a period of illness and recovery, Winter Gardens begins with a simple question: what can the darkest season teach us? In winter, the garden is stripped back to its bones. Colour drains from the landscape, leaving behind a frost-bitten world of blacks, silvers and browns - a narrow palette that slowly reveals its astonishing depth. Through intimate garden portraits, voice-over and conversations with the people who tend to these landscapes, the film explores winter as a place of stillness, repair and quiet transformation, where life gathers strength beneath the soil before returning to the light.
Books
Winter Gardens by Andrew Montgomery and Clare Foster, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May, Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence by Gavin Francis
Films
Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf by Thomas Piper, Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time and Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy by Thomas Riedelsheimer
Cinematic references
Andrei Tarkovsky, Béla Tarr
Format reference
Chef’s Table, Season 1 - intimate portrait-led storytelling, cinematic visuals, voice-over and interviews
MARMALADE
Every year, thousands of jars of marmalade arrive at a grand house in the north of England. From the first deliveries to the final judging, and onwards to the possibility of a winning jar appearing on the shelves of Fortnum & Mason, the film follows the World Marmalade Awards as a world of British tradition and quiet obsession.
Shot with the richness of an oil painting, the film treats marmalade as gold in a jar - amber, textured and unexpectedly beautiful - while interviews with judges, makers and organisers reveal the eccentricity, precision and joy behind one of Britain’s most unexpected competitions.
Films
Honeyland by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
The Gleaners and I by Agnès Varda
Babette’s Feast by Gabriel Axel
Cinematic references
Orlando by Sally Potter
Podcast
Podcast
The Rest is Analogue
The Rest is Analogue is a podcast about the growing countermovement to life online.
Through conversations with people building human-first businesses, communities and offline experiences, it asks what we lose when everything becomes automated and, most importantly, what we might recover when we return to nature, our bodies and each other.
This is not about rejecting technology, retreating from progress or living in the past, but about asking what kind of lives we still want to live.
Short
Short
FAMILY (working title)
An international family gathers in London and crosses the city in a black cab, carrying with them old tensions, unfinished conversations and a Harris hawk in a box.
As the journey unfolds through phone calls, voice notes, half-translated arguments and long silences, the cab becomes a pressure cooker, revealing the tensions, loyalties and unspoken histories usually hidden beneath wealth, charm and family performance.
Filmed through faces, windows and reflections: outside, London passes by in fragments; inside, everyone is trapped in the roles they know too well.
Films
The Farewell by Lulu Wang, On the Rocks by Sofia Coppola, Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier, Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund
Cinematic references
Joanna Hogg