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What Comes After The Flood
Mothers Rise Up
Tenbury Wells, a picturesque medieval town in central England, was once a sought-after place to live. Now, after a series of devastating floods, it has been ominously labelled the ‘UK's first uninhabitable town’. Not because life there is impossible, but because homes, businesses and even the town hall are now uninsurable.
Across Britain and the world, the insurance industry is rapidly abandoning communities vulnerable to climate-driven disasters. Yet, this same sector profits immensely from supporting the new coal, oil, and gas projects that fuel the very climate change driving people from their homes.
Our documentary film explores the profound yet underestimated impact the insurance industry has on our daily lives, our communities, and the future of our planet. Through the heartbreaking lens of this small English town, we witness the devastating human cost of a broken financial system, the fierce power and resilience of community, and the urgent race to secure our collective future before the waters rise for good.
About Mothers Rise Up
Mothers Rise Up uses fierce love, humour and outstanding creativity to reach new audiences, and demand better for our children and planet. We primarily focus on insurance, recognising the critical role the industry plays in the fight to protect our planet.
Our respected and emotive voice as mothers, combined with our strategic approach, allows us to engage with those in positions of power and speak across ideological divides.
We are a small, diverse and determined group of UK mothers that combine specialist skills, joy and creativity to help secure a better future for children everywhere.
Writer, Director & Editor - Charli Willow
Producer, Cinematographer & Animator - Toby Anthonisz
Executive Producer - Lorna Powell
Composer - Cat Florence
Additional Photography - Alasdair K Boyce
Colourist - Caroline Morin
Sound Designer & Re-recording Mixer - Christodoulos Procopiou, Still Line Post
Made in Collaboration with - Diann Dowell + Summer of Tenbury Wells, and Kim Kaos + Vey Straker of Monmouth
With Contribution from - Dr Jess Neumann, Dr Louise Pryor, Sue Reid, Jerome Crugnola-Humbert, Dr Emily Theokritoff, Prof. Dave Jones, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Tessa Khan, Bockarie Samai, Dr Carola König.
Made Possible with Support from - Network For Social Change + The Sunrise Project
Featuring: Eleanor Lisney, Clare Williams, Eric Wu, Naomi Lisney
Produced by: Eleanor Lisney, Christian Mooney, Toby Anthonisz
Director & Editor: Charli Willow
Cinematographer, Graphics & Colourist: Toby Anthonisz
Composer: Catherine Whatley
Sound Engineer: Liam O’Rawe
Sound Design: Matthew Mckinnon
BSL Interpreter: Sam Riddle
Created in partnership with Culture access and This is Arcade
Camera & Colour: Toby Anthonisz
Edit & Sound Design: Charli Willow
Roadworks Media are now launching their 'Squash the Beef' campaign, a larger more ambitious filmmaking programme for at-risk youth in Southwark council estates with the core aim of tackling youth violence by giving these young people from some of the poorest and most underrepresented communities avenues to industry jobs, creative expression and self actualisation.
Something Nice will be documenting the whole of this year's programme, culminating in a grand screening in the local community for their families to see the remarkable affect these programmes have on their children and for their peers to gain a new perspective on their own futures, feel seen and authentically represented through their own voice.
New updates coming soon!
Client: Roadworks Media
Director & Editor: Charli Willow
Camera and Colourist: Toby Anthonisz
We’ve crafted this series to feel somewhere between memory and dreams, inviting you to slip within the magic of exploration and adventure.
Camera & Colour: Toby Anthonisz
Edit & Sound Design: Charli Willow
Powerchair football is a unique sport that provides opportunities for people with a high level of impairment to access the game of football. It is the only active team participation sport for people who use electric wheelchairs.
Director Charli Whatley, worked closely with Marcus and Jacob to craft their words into a poetic monologue so that their truth shined through.
As well as the full length film, Something Nice produced 30 second cut downs for socials.
The full film was broadcast on BT Sport, and was included as part of the wider ‘This Is Football’ social media campaign from England Football and the FA, garnering 400k views on Twitter. The film was also featured on Broadcast Now and has been preserved in the BFI National Archive.
Client: England Football
Agency: Youth Beyond Borders
Director & Editor: Charli Willow
Producer: Toby Anthonisz
Director of Photography: Alasdair K Boyce
Creative Stills Photographer: Sakara Pritchard
Sound Recordist & Designer: Owen Baldwin
Composer: Catherine Whatley
Colourist: Caroline Morin
Post Producer at Wash: Mikael Nakkas
We facilitated the collection of hundreds of clips from our extended creative network of their favourite travelling experiences pre-pandemic. This enabled the film to have a feeling of multiple persepectives of the collective joy for exploring and meeting new communities.
We used video conferencing to interview the subjects who were living in multiple countries to keep costs down and the production carbon footprint as minimal as possible.
Director: Matthew Johnston
Producers: Charli Willow & Toby Anthonisz
Audio Interviews Conducted & Edited by: Charli Siobhan Willow
Video Editor: Toby Heard
Composer: Catherine Whatley
Sound Designer: Christodoulos Procopiou
The film was created with footage documented by Charli and her partner and producer Toby Anthonisz, then edited, narrated and scored by Charli during the first UK lockdown in 2020. The film screened at London Short Film Festival, and DepicT! Subsequently, the film has been preserved in the BFI National Archive.
Director & Editor: Charli Willow
Producer & Director of Photography: Toby Anthonisz
The 5 films reflect 5 points of view regarding the inhumane impacts of offshore refugee processing centres, the consequences of dispossession, incarceration and colonial power in the contemporary world. Explored through the lens of Australia's infamous refugee policies and the lived experience of those affected by it, these poignant, powerful and personal films resonate with current UK attitudes, foreshadowing the human impact of ‘stopping the boats’.