Whalebone Films

We’re so pleased that film AUTISM PLAYS ITSELF, that we helped produce, has won Best International Short Film at this year. The jury said: “In this deeply interrogative portrait of perception, the filmmaker meticulous reappropriates and recontextualizes archival materials to dismantle anachronistic misconceptions, and then swiftly integrates a myriad of voices that challenge and defy the established narrative. The film establishes an active relationship with images and sound, using simple tools to create an encounter filled with discovery and amusement, all stemming from a place of love, tenderness, and generosity. The Award goes to Autism Plays Itself.”

CPH:DOX Special Premiere review: The Stimming Pool by The Neurocultures Collective - Business Doc Europe An engaging and illuminating hybrid documentary that reflects a spectrum of autistic experiences.

We’ve been waiting so long to be able to share this film that we made and are incredibly proud of. A 30” documentary for the award-winning Al Jazeera strand produced by us at team Whalebone and directed by .

Link is on bio, it will also be on the Al Jazeera channel tonight at 11:30pm 📺

A Vision of Justice tells the story of Fabiola Campillai. Blinded in the 2019 uprising, Indigenous mother and former factory worker decides to fight for justice and run for parliament.

It was such an honour to tell the story of such an inspiring woman, so many people helped to make this happen…

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Producers: and Jodie Taylor
DOP: Mauricio Garcia
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Editor: .fiore
Mix: Rob Szeliga
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With kind support from

LONDON SCREENING OF 1001 DAYS: This Saturday 2nd December, 1pm on Euston Road as part of the festival.

Tickets at globalhealthfilm.org and link in bio 💥

What an incredible night last night! The Private View of at - one half of the Neurocultures project we’ve been producing this year. Alongside the feature, we produced this artwork with directors Benjamen Brown and Lucy Walker.

Such a huge and receptive audience, all there to celebrate neurodiversity and creativity ❤️

Alongside our video installation, beautiful on-set photos by and amazing zoeytropes made with the help of animator . All curated by the unstoppable .

Too many people to mention made this happen, but a huge thank you to our DP Gregory Oke, our execs and our funders and .

The exhibition will be at Nottingham for 6 months (go go go!) before touring to other galleries. And watch this space for news of our mind-blowing feature film!

Still reeling from the whirlwind that was where we had the premiere of our feature documentary dir. and and prod. by .

The film was so warmly received and in amongst such an incredible programme of films. It was an honour to be there and to have been accepted.

The film continues to be accepted by festivals and has many, many screenings coming up so watch this space!

For more info please visit our website (1001daymovie.com) for details and also if you want to support the incredible who *know* how crucial those first 1001 days are 🇿🇦

STIM CINEMA- a new touring exhibition and moving image installation- will be premiering at Museum and Art Gallery 25th November-14th April 2025.

The film, produced by us and explores repetitive actions and autistic experiences tracking back to the earliest forms of moving image, and the birth of cinema and cinematic language. STIM CINEMA is part of Nottingham Castle’s season of new programming focusing on Neurodivergence.

Directed by the Neurocultures Collective ( Robin Elliot-Knowles, Lucy Walker and Benjamen Brown) and .

Produced by and
Curated by
Funded by

More info in link in bio

Really pleased that our film is screening at the wonderful festival in Cape Town and will be having an additional screening at the film’s home in Joberg along with a panel discussion on depression messaging in South Africa. Our friends from will be there in audience!

We have also got a DONATE button on our website (1001daymovie.com) for anyone who has seen the film was want to make a difference!

Saturday 1st July @1.30 at the for all our Joberg friends!

For those of you in Cape Town, our film is screening on the 29th June at the

Behind the scenes pictures by the incredible from the set of our newest feature film which we’re *very* excited about.

Funded by the this hybrid film (title TBC!) invites its audience to explore the world through a neurodivergent lens, in which autism is not the subject but rather the form by which to see…. The film is a co-creation between Steven Eastwood and a collective of 5 autistic artists, and produced by us!

It was amazing to be able to shoot most of the film in Hastings working closely with the incredible and a whole host of talented individuals. What a team! ❤️

Extremely delighted that our first feature doc 1001 DAYS is having its international premiere at . We love Sheffield and it’s a huge honour to be showing there. And super excited that co-director will be coming all the way from South Africa!

Love to the contributors and team: Will Davies

Last night was the world premiere of our feature documentary 1001 DAYS at in Johannesburg. After 6 years in the making this was a BIG moment.

Co-director , editor and Thandiwe has a q&a with festival director Eric Miyeni.

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This time last year… being filmed by for a documentary making course. And that course is being launched on Tuesday!!!! Link will be in bio…… ❤️ ❤️

So pleased that our film LAND OF FIRES (dir. and Will Davies) will be screening in Berlin at the film festival later this month 🎊

We hope everyone is staying warm this winter! As we come to the end of the year we wanted to share with you some of our highlights from 2022. And we're looking forward to sharing some very exciting developments with you in 2023, as we continue to tell stories of lives lived on this strange and beautiful planet! We have some very good festival news to announce and some interesting trips planned….

1. Our feature film 1001 Days is complete! Look out for release updates in the new year!

2. We make an audio documentary for about an unusual legacy left by a Hastings fisherman, and it takes place on the same road as our office!

3. Two years of hard graft draws to a close as we wrap on Manmade Monsters, our series of 4 documentaries for .

5. We made a short news piece on plastic grass and its impact on biodiversity, that we produced with , is broadcast on

6. Our film, Sunflowers, about a young girl born in the year of the Fukushima disaster, has its world premiere at

7. Chloe and Will start teaching short courses on various elements of the craft of documentary making, for

8. Our animated film on identity is released, the first in an important series about dialogue

9. We start shooting for our Chilean documentary about a very unexpected politician who is bringing the voice of Chile's marginalised to the political arena, following life changing injuries she suffered at the hands of the police.

10. Our radio documentary Comet Dust is broadcast on Short Cuts and is a. Pick of the Week.

Thanks to all our wonderful collaborators

Listen out for our piece all about the Crown Lane bike race held every year outside the (and right by our office!) on next Tuesday @ 3pm produced by Jodie Taylor and Will Davies

Deeply saddened to hear of the death or Mr Lee, who so kindly partook in our documentary An All-Encompassing Light back in 2014, remembering the day a nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
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A little piece we made for with and David Thomas shot by on the biodiversity crisis in the UK. Watch at our link in bio 🍃

🔥 So pleased to hear that women are now being allowed to take part in the legendary Up Helly Aa fire festival in Shetland🔥

In 2019 we travelled to the island to make documentaries for and about the women protesting against this discrimination. So pleased to see this archaic policy now scrapped!

You can watch the docs we made on our website in bio

Many projects we’ve been involved with over the years have been about displacement.

From filming Syrian refugees in Zaatari camp in Jordan (pictured), Greece and Germany for to documenting a week long arts camp for children refugees in Austria for .

We’ve been constantly amazed at the resilience of the people we’ve met, and shocked and astounded at some of the conditions they’ve endured.

Every person on this planet has a right to seek safety, and everyone deserves to be protected and welcomed.

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The Matsui family. 11 years ago today their world was turned upside down by the earthquake, tsunami and resultant nuclear disaster in Fukushima.

The family had to seperate and evacuate, like so many from the region, but have now returned and are planting sunflowers in an act of solidarity and remembrance.

A year ago we worked with filming this story for and we are now in the sound mix!!!

Can’t wait to share this beautiful story with the world 🌻

Sharing the faces of some of the AMAZING women we’ve been able to film with over the years. And behind the camera on these films also lies some pretty incredible female talent
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Tonight on Channel 4 at 7.30, our new documentary about a South Korean survivor of wartime s*xual slavery, directed by Nancy Roberts and produced by Chloe Might and Jodie Taylor and the team at ITN.

TV tonight: the wartime s*x slave seeking justice from Japan One of the Japanese military’s so-called ‘comfort women’ tells her harrowing story. Plus, a final slice of Bake Off pleasure. Here’s what to watch this evening

It’s been a real privilege to be able to work with amazing director (and friend!) bringing this documentary to life. With immense sensitivity Nancy and tell the story of Grandma Lee, one of the last survivors of women forced into wartime s*xual slavery by the Japanese military.
The film will be aired on Friday at 7.30pm on Channel 4

We met 13 years ago in Japan and now we’re working together for the first time! On a half hour film in South Korea no less! Here she is in Daegu doing her thing.
We love collaborating with amazing directors and producers and bringing excellent and important ideas to life. Can’t wait to reveal more about this one... .

The beautiful Eri, star of one of the episodes of our series.... in the making since 2019! 📸 by

Our final day shooting in Naples and boy, what an epic shoot. Thanks to all our amazing contributors and for your dedication and for commissioning. Now we bring filmmaker extraordinare .fiore to help us piece it all together! 🎞 👌

The amazing activist and artist and ⭐️ of our new documentary. Photo by