Our Projects — Something Nice

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Our Work

Cook with Me: Eleanor Lisney

Pilot Episode

Documentary Series

'Cook with Me' is a docu-series that features guests from the disabled community revealing their favourite recipes, the personal stories around food and the experience of cooking with support. We're excited to release our self-funded pilot episode with disability activist and co-creator of the show, Eleanor Lisney, and our second episode will be ready in May. We are seeking funding to produce a 10 episode season.

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

Breathe AHR ‘Melodies for Dads’

Fundraiser

Short Documentary

'Melodies for Dads' is a group session for new fathers based in Southwark. Toby, one of the co-founders of Something Nice, went to the pilot 6 week course and found that it was such a positive and beneficial programme that he offered to produce this film to help Breathe Arts Health Research attain the relevant funding from Southwark Council and raise greater awareness of the course.

Camera & Colour: Toby Anthonisz
Edit & Sound Design: Charli Willow

Squash The Beef Campaign Launch

Awareness Campaign

Short Documentary

Something Nice are honoured to announce our partnership with Roadworks Media. In this short doc we introduce Quince Garcia, the Founder of Roadworks Media, and his mission to support the at-risk youth to discover their creative potential through filmmaking and art programmes.

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

The Something Nice Travelogues

Creator Content

Short Documentary Series

Chronic illness makes travel a rare and precious experience for Something Nice founders, Charli and Toby, but it also reveals the vast gratitude we should all feel to be able to visit new places, breathe different air, taste vibrant new flavours and witness humanity and nature.

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

This is Football: Marcus x Jacob

Broadcast & Digital Campaign

Short 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 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

Roadbook: The Journey Forwards

Branded Digital Campaign

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

Chronically Locked Down

Awareness Campaign

Micro-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 Willow
Producer & Director of Photography: Toby Anthonisz

Life In Limbo

Film Festival Curation

Short 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. Studio

Branded Digital Campaign

Short 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 Willow
Director of Photography & Colourist: Toby Anthonisz
Composer: Catherine Whatley

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