Films

This 15 minute storytelling film weaves together stories from individuals and groups in health intentionally leading change. It reveals some of the many ways that these changemakers have managed to significantly impact their health care environments and improve health outcomes, often through relatively small, local interventions. From improving patient safety and reducing patient harm, to promoting community health and introducing compassion in health leadership - these stori

We were so delighted to have talented young film maker Ella Vincenzi as part of the team on our project for WHO. She documented the process and has made a lovely short film of our journey. It was great to reflect on the process while we were going through it and was a really helpful way of bringing perspective to any challenges as well as constantly connecting us back to our core purpose in making it. Click here to see the film.

Great to see the film coming together... still work to do on graphics, grade and sound, and finalising credits... but its getting there!

We have found a fantastic warehouse location to film this project - in Bermondsey, London. It used to be a victorian tannery and is full of atmosphere. Its great to see everything coming together and particularly exciting to hear the fantastic music filling the spaces as we work from Tunde Jegede and Renu, and to have the youngest member of the team - our actress Ulrika's 4 month old baby girl Maitreya - on set with us today. What an honour!

Having interviewed health care workers from all around the world we transcribed all the interviews, and then set about doing a thematic analysis. Once we had established the key themes that came through, we began to write a script. This was a long process! The first script was over half an hour long, and after numerous discussions and a lot of soul searching we have managed to cut the script down to 15 minutes. Its heartbreaking to lose some of the stories but we hope to be a

An article I co-authored - Psoriasis: The Skin I’m In – Development of a behaviour change tool to improve the care and lives of people with psoriasis - has been published in the CED (Clinical & Experimental Dermatology). It can be accessed from the Wiley online library here . It is an academic response to the research we conducted for our film Psoriasis; The Skin I'm In.

We are very excited to be collaborating with The WHO and The Presencing Institute to listen to the stories of change makers at all levels in the health sector worldwide and to create another storytelling film. We will take the key themes from these conversations and weave a narrative from their stories to shed light on what it means to be a change maker. Through the power of storytelling this film will inspire other potential change makers and provide inspiration for change

So pleased to be screening "Life Growing Up" with GHFF online program , alongside the brilliant documentary 5B. Its followed by a Q&A.

Life Growing Up won best film in the Long Form under £5m category at the Charity Film Awards from a shortlist of 18 films. It was a surreal affair as the whole ceremony was broadcast live on Youtube during lockdown and we were watching at home, but big celebrations here when we won! Credit to all the amazing young people who shared their stories with us. Their courage has changed the way people think and feel about young people born with HIV. We couldn’t have made the film wi

We are delighted to announce that we have just heard that we are finalists in the charity film awards for our film "Life Growing Up" - the true stories of young people in the Uk growing up with HIV. Please vote for us here ... there is still time! And tune in to watch the Live digital broadcast of the virtual awards ceremony on Tuesday 21st April at 7pm by going the Charity Film Awards website.

We are so excited to announce that Life Growing Up, our film about the stories of young people growing up with HIV, has been shortlisted for the Charity Film Awards. The second stage of voting starts now, so please add your vote here.

Great to watch Life Growing Up Screened at the Global Health Film Festival with co-writer Danny Scheinmann and producer Tamsin Herbert, and was honoured to be part of a panel discussion following the screening.

We are excited to announce that our film  Life Growing Up  made for UK children's HIV charity CHIVA , has been selected for the  2019 Global Health Film Festival . It will take place on Friday 06 and Saturday 07 December, in Bloomsbury, central London, bringing together 500 health advocates, filmmakers, journalists and the public for discussion and debate in all areas of global health.

Excerts of the film of Life Growing up were previewed at AIDS2018 in Amsterdam.....

I have been working for many months on this very moving short film Life Growing Up  and it launches today for World AIDS Day 2018 . Based on the true stories of young people in the UK born with HIV and developed from a live spoken word/ storytelling performance, it was commissioned by the Children's HIV Association, CHIVA.

Filming Life Growing Up; true stories from young people growing up with HIV in the UK.  Working with the super talented director Simon Baker, alongside producer Tamsin Herbert and their amazing team to create a film from the live performance. Our wonderful actors Alistair Nwachukwu, James Jack Ryan and Maia Watkins gave brilliant performances..... The film will be previewed at the International Conference in Amsterdam AIDS20018 next week, and officially launched in the UK on

So pleased to have had over 10,000 views on youtube of our film about Psoriasis - The Skin I'm In. If you haven't already seen it .... go and have a look here !

A unique film/storytelling project in collaboration with Dr Sandy McBride (consultant dermatologist at the Royal Free London Hospital). We launched the film on you tube to coincide with National Psoriasis Week in the UK. It is designed to educate and bring awareness. I interviewed 20 people with Psoriasis and from the transcripts Danny Scheinmann and I created a spoken word piece which we perform with music from Neyire Ashworth and Simon Edwards.  The film is directed by Sim

So excited to be filming our story about Psoriasis "The Skin I'm In". Rising to the challenge of translating the  live storytelling piece onto film, with a fantastic creative team.  Its a real pleasure to work with director Simon Baker, producer Fenella Mcguire, and musicians Neyire Ashworth and Simon Edwards and of course the wonderful Danny Scheinmann.

I am delighted that we have secured a grant for an exciting collaboration between myself and Danny Scheinmann (storytellers), Buddy Films and consultant dermatologist Sandy McBride from the Royal Free Hospital, London. The collaboration will draw from true life stories collected from people with psoriasis to develop a live storytelling event, and later a short film which seeks to engage health professionals, people with psoriasis and the general public in the emotional story