Let's talk What did the brief ask for? What did we find in the research? Here we share the decisions that shaped four very different projects.
Making the future feel human.
An ongoing body of documentary, scripted film and digital storytelling about the people building a different future. Led by Souvid as Creative Director at Fifty Years, with JBN co-producing its first scripted film, Indispensable.
Inside the project
A changing industry, seen through one woman’s life.
A film about garment work and digital skills, built around Ruma Akter’s experience of a changing workplace.
Inside the project
A reason to come back together.
Six performance films made inside the cultural spaces lockdown had left empty. A collaboration with Soumik Datta Arts, giving music, dance and difficult conversations somewhere to happen.
Inside the project
Let the music introduce you.
A six-part television journey with Soumik Datta, meeting musicians across India and making music together. Written, directed and filmed by Souvid Datta, with co-director and creator Soumik Datta.
Inside the projectA film about digital skills becomes more interesting when we understand what a changing workplace means to Ruma Akter. A film about science needs to make room for the person deciding what to do with it.
Read the Shimmy case studySilent Spaces needed music, movement and the scale of an empty venue. Indispensable needed a young scientist whose choice we could sit with. The subject and the audience help us decide what kind of film to make.
Explore Silent SpacesA creative decision has to survive the shoot and the edit. These cases look at the collaborators, locations and production choices that helped the work become what it is.
Read about the Fifty Years work