Our Spring 2025 productions

Helping participants use the Canon C200 on our ‘Shoot a film in a Day’ workshop at Bridgwater Library.

What I find so rewarding at Somerset Film is the variety of film work we’re commissioned to make. It is such a privilege to work with so many talented individuals - DoPs, Editors, Animators and Writers to create work our clients value.

🌍 ‘Withstanding Change'. A commission for the International National Trusts Organisation, exploring 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, 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 helping us edit their stories into a compelling film. Eve had previously been an editor on Game of Thrones and brought her fanastic editing skills 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 Crewkerne, Yeovil, Egwood and Castle Cary. Their films were very varied and moving. One of the participants was an eleven year old boy who I thought was completely non-verbal. He did not speak until lunchtime when he was finally given a broadcast camera to hold. He refused to be parted from it, spent the afternoon cradling it and filmed some lovely shots. We were told that on the drive home he turned to his mentor, who’d accompanied him on the workshop, and said ‘This is what I want to do, 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 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 have been planned in Tyntesfield, Somerset and Morden Hall, West London for July and August 2025.

Kevin Redpath, Producer, Somerset Film