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Working light and agile on smaller productions, we can scale according to a project brief by utilising our wide network of trusted collaborators.
Our films, video content & podcasts are designed with a cinematic mindset; our photography is intentional, locations curated, soundscapes carefully crafted - every detail from the production design to the graphics & titles is considered in order to create meaning and beauty.
Our ability to make our subjects feel comfortable and create space for their own expression, allows our films, video content & podcasts to communicate their stories with authenticity and care.
Innovative in their construction, our projects utilise a collage of media as needed for drawing in and entertaining the viewer, further enabling the connection between their story and your audience.
In 2023 Charli was selected for Peckham Rise, a year long mentorship and creative business incubator, run by I Like Networking and Market Peckham, where they developed the new home for their documentary focused endeavours, Something Nice.
Something Nice will continue to actively work on growing, developing and learning about how to work in a way that supports other’s needs, with the huge ambition of one day radicalising the wider industry to become a nicer, and more accessible and inclusive place to work.
Our approach is to create a safe and supportive environment for people to advocate for their own needs, to nurture fluidity and flexibility within the team, and to champion interdependence with job sharing encouraged.
Across her career Charli (Whatley) Willow has worked in assistant roles for high level Executives in both Film and TV, as well as independent directors and producers. Working within development, production, finance, sales, and exhibition, she has garnered a strong understanding of what it takes to nurture a seed of an idea into a film that reaches an international audience.
In 2018 Charli’s pilot episode for neo-noir series Dirty Laundry (writer and producer), won Best British Pilot at Pilot Light Festival in Manchester. This coincided with the onset of her chronic neurological illness and a slowing of momentum with her career. Navigating this period with the support of her partner and carer Toby Anthonisz and the wider disabled community, through forums, social media, events, films and direct collaboration with other disabled artists and business owners, Charli grew the confidence to rediscover filmmaking within her new limitations.
Her portfolio of work, as both a writer and director, has screened at London Short Film Festival, Bolton Film Festival, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, DepicT!, Cornwall Film Festival, ASVOFF9, FFFMilano, Copehagen Fashion Film Festival, been programmed by T A P E Collective and Sziget, platformed by Schön! Magazine, and three of her films are preserved in the BFI Archive. Charli was selected for BAFTA Crew and later made a member through BAFTA Connect.
In 2009, his final year project Subject to Change interactive film was installed at the National Waterfront Museum, drawing attention from the BBC and HBO. This eventually led Toby to direct his first interactive commercial in New York for Airwick in 2013, which won an Ad Age Innovation Award. After which, he relocated to New York to continue directing interactive advertising projects for Verizon.
In 2017, Toby returned to London and created permanent animated installations for the National Maritime Museum, National Army Museum and the widely acclaimed Video Games exhibition at the V&A while permalancing with Squint/Opera.
During this time Toby also expanded into producing, working with director Stefano Ottaviano on spoken word and dance-based films Social Distortion (2018), which was distributed through Schön Magazine, and Crxss Platform (2019) which was featured on Nowness, and writer/director Charli (Whatley) Willow on This Is Football: Marcus Harrison x Jacob for England Football, which was broadcast on BT Sport and has over 400K views online, and Chronically Locked Down which was selected for DepicT! and London Short Film Festival, screening at the Curzon Soho.
Through Faded Neon Films, Toby worked as Director of Photography on much of the portfolio of work, including Dreamland for artist Cat Florence which was selected to screen at BIFA qualifying Cornwall Film Festival in 2022.
From 2022 - 2024 Toby worked on the title design, title sequences and pitch decks for major film and tv titles such as Top Boy, Anatomy of a Fall, L’Amour Ouf, A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder and The Radleys, during his time as Art Director at marketing studio Zealot. Over the two and half years at the studio, projects he worked on accrued 8 Promax/GEMA Awards and 2 Golden Trailer Awards, while the studio itself was crowned Promax Agency of the Year 2023.
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