Our Spring 2025 productions
What we find so rewarding at Somerset Film is the variety of productions we’re commissioned to make. It is a privilege to work with so many talented individuals - DoPs, Editors, Animators and Writers to produce films our clients value.
🌍 ‘Withstanding Change' was a commission for the International National Trusts Organisation. The film explores the impact of climate change on heritage buildings in Egypt, Uganda, Ethiopia, Jordan and Zanzibar. We received 2,000 video files from African film crews, with interviews in five languages (Arabic, Amharic, English, Lugandan and Swahili), filmed in two aspect ratios and at seven different frame rates. Huge thanks to the brilliant, unflappable Eve Doherty for editing their diverse stories into a compelling film. Eve had previously been an editor on twenty episodes of Game of Thrones and brought her fantastic editing skills and can-do attitude to the many post-production challenges we faced.
🎬 We ran four ‘Let’s shoot a film in a day’ workshops to reach the socially isolated, the over 60s and those struggling with mental health issues or learning difficulties in South Somerset. We hosted them in Castle Cary, Crewkerne, Egwood and Yeovil. Their films were very varied and moving. One of the participants was an eleven-year old boy who we initially thought was non-verbal. He did not speak a word until lunchtime when he was finally given a broadcast camera to hold. He refused to be parted from it, spent the afternoon carrying it everywhere and filmed some lovely shots, taking great care with the framing. We were told that on the drive home he turned to his mentor, who’d accompanied him on the workshop, and said ‘I want to be a cameraman’.
❤️ Between 600,000 and 725,000 people in the UK are affected by an eating disorder. We produced five short films for SWEDA (South West Eating Disorders Association) on the experience of people living with, and recovering from, severe eating disorders. Pip Harris produced some beautiful animations to tackle this very sensitive subject. The project brief was to create films for the NHS intranet, helping GPs quickly refer patients to support services like SWEDA when needed.
🌳 We are currently working with the Images team at the National Trust to design and deliver a series of media skills development workshops for their younger members. Initial workshops on ‘Shoot a Film in a Day’, ‘An Introduction to Graphics and Animation’ and ‘Learn how to present to camera’ have been planned in Tyntesfield, Somerset and Morden Hall, West London for July and August 2025.
Kevin Redpath, Producer, Somerset Film
