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This is Football: Marcus x JacobBroadcast & Digital CampaignShort Documentary
This short documentary shines a light on England player Marcus Harrison and his young mentee Jacob who dreams to one day play for his country.

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 Whatley
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

Roadbook: The Journey ForwardsBranded Digital CampaignShort Documentary
In this short film, ROADBOOK asks a small community of global creatives about the future of travel. Their responses – ranging from pithy to poetic, entertaining to emotional – have been curated to demonstrate how different our personal journeys are.

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 Siobhan Whatley & Toby Anthonisz
Audio Interviews Conducted & Edited by: Charli Siobhan Whatley
Video Editor: Toby Heard
Composer: Catherine Whatley
Sound Designer: Christodoulos Procopiou

Chronically Locked DownAwareness CampaignMicro-Short Documentary
This short documentary taps into a moment of shared empathy, demonstrating the parallel between lockdown and how Charli’s life already was due to a chronic neurological illness, ME/CFS, holding in equal focus the struggles created by limitations and the gratitude discovered within life's more simple moments.

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 Siobhan Whatley
Producer & Director of Photography: Toby Anthonisz

Life In LimboFilm Festival CurationShort Documentary Collection
For this event we brought a curation of short films from, Refugee Art Project in Australia, to the UK. Partnering with T A P E Collective and London Migration Film Festival, the films were shown at the Ritzy Cinema in London, followed by a panel discussion with Melissa-Kelly Franklin (award-winning Australian writer and director of theatre and film), Sophie Lucas (Solicitor in the Public Law department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors), Jumanah Bawazir (researcher at Forensic Architecture as well as a multidisciplinary designer and poet) and Samin Saadat (an Iranian filmmaker and former refugee).


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’.
In the Sister Paper Co. StudioBranded Digital CampaignShort Documentary
This film documents the process of Emma Pearce, founder of Sister Paper Co.

Sister Paper Co. create paper products full of creativity and curiosity. Consciously created using sustainably sourced papers.Proudly female owned, Sister Paper Co. was launched in 2021 by founder and designer Emma Pearce. All their collections begin their life as an original ink or gouache artwork hand-painted by Emma.



Director & Editor: Charli Whatley
Director of Photography & Colourist: Toby Anthonisz
Composer: Catherine Whatley

Memes & AI: an exploration through performancePublic LectureFilmed Extracts
For Dr Neil Saunders we filmed an extract of scenes from Knives in Hens (writer, David Harrower) to support his lecture, Memes & AI: an exploration through performance. 
In this public lecture, Neil Saunders explores ideas of human and artificial intelligence from a range of viewpoints: philosophical, mathematical, artistic and memetic. Drawing on recent and historical work of Dennett, Searle and Seth and with selected readings from David Harrower's powerful play Knives in Hens by professional actors, this talk will explore how language is central to intelligence and understanding, whether that be human or artificial.

Dr Neil Saunders is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Greenwich in London. His research focuses on geometric and combinatorial aspects of representation theory, which is a branch of algebra that studies symmetry in the abstract.


Performance Director Melissa-Kelly Franklin
Producer, Director of Photography + Editor Charli Whatley
Colourist Toby Anthonisz
Mohsin ZaidiSpeaking ShowreelShort Documentary
A speaker showreel for Mohsin Zaidi, an award-winning author, commentator and lawyer. His critically acclaimed memoir, A Dutiful Boy (Penguin, 2020) was named a Guardian, GQ and New Statesman Book of the Year and won the prestigious Lambda Literary Award. 

An advocate for LGBT rights, BAME representation and social mobility, Mohsin sits on the board of Stonewall and is listed by The Financial Times as a top future LGBT leader. A regular commentator on Sky News, he also writes for CNN Style, The i Newspaper, Bustle, Mr Porter and Newsweek. He was recently listed in The Lawyer Magazine Hot 100 and Attitude magazine named him a trailblazer changing the world.



Director of Photography & Colourist: Toby Anthonisz
Producer & Editor: Charli Whatley
Composer Catherine Whatley

How to Train the Perfect WomanTheatre Production Funding PitchShort Documentary
This short documentary introduces the team behind Bric a Brac’s theatre production, How To Train The Perfect Woman. This film was funded for production by the Arts Council and used to source further funding for development and production of the play.

How to Train The Perfect Woman’ is a searing multimedia show which explores the experiences of two women, both raised in a misogynistic cult, and the impact when one leaves the group and one stays. 



Directed & Edited: Charli Whatley
Photography & Colour: Toby Anthonisz
Music by Ellie Isherwood
Creative Caption Design by Ben Glover
Featuring: Caterina Incisa (writer), Anna Marshall and Alice Wordsworth (co-directors) with performers Kathryn Bond, Alice Devlin, Pepa Duarte, Jake Francis and Mae Munuo

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