Growing up is hard enough for most young people but how different would it be if you couldn’t view the world through your eyes. This film follows four young blind people on the rollercoaster ride to adulthood as they try to work out what they want …
Find out what happens when cameraman Richard Terry spends two months camped out in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness with just a bear obsessed Swiss man and some of the largest predators in the world for company.
Richard wants to find out what drives someone to …
Nine-year old Shiloh Pepin wants to be just like any other girl her age, but she suffers from an extremely rare disease. She is the world’s only living mermaid.
Shiloh has Sirenomelia or ‘mermaid syndrome’, a congenital disorder that means her legs are fused together. She was …
Learning to drive is a daunting and stressful experience even for the calmest of individuals – but much more so when you have Autism. It can also be much more important for people with Autism than for neuro-typical people as it represents the independence they often …
The Autistic Me was a high rating and critically acclaimed documentary that followed the lives of three young men with autism as they struggled with the transition to adulthood: trying to find work, looking for love and striving for independence. This follow up film catches up …
Single, Together, Whatever is a six part observational documentary series aimed at 12-17 year olds. The series follows the lives of 18 teenagers as they boldly open the door to their personal lives revealing their inner most thoughts, hopes and fears regarding relationships and love.
In true …
Entering the world of 21st Century gypsy and traveller weddings, where ancient traditions meet modern fashions in an ostentatious culture clash, this film follows four gypsy and traveller families on their wedding day.
Considered ‘on the shelf’ at 20, in gypsy and traveller communities …
We took the Daredevils graphic package down a high-end filmic route – based on the moment before a Daredevil takes the plunge; those last few seconds when everything is quiet, when time stands still, when the Daredevil is alone with the elements.
The tension builds through the sequence cutting from …
Preferring glass and steel to rock and stone, and without ropes or safety equipment one man has taken the art of climbing to dangerous new heights… Having already conquered 80 of highest building’s on earth, Alain Robert now has his sights on the only one to …
Dean Potter is a unique breed of daredevil. He is the only person in the world practicing extreme slacklining – a hair-raising variation of tightrope walking which sees him crossing a bouncy stretch of 1-inch wide rope suspended hundreds of feet above some of the …
Dutch daredevil Wim Hof is planning to run a full 26-mile marathon 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, clad only in shorts and open sandals. Wim won’t be doing any physical training. He sees this as a challenge of the power of the human mind. Wim …
The incredible spectacle of proximity wingsuit flying involves wearing a state-of-the-art Teflon winged suit, jumping off a cliff edge thousands of feet up and flying terrifyingly close to some of the world’s most dangerous mountain faces before deploying a parachute at the very last second. Its …
As part of Channel 4’s Sexology week, we were asked to create an on screen ident that would be stripped across the week to intro four difference films exploring the often extreme and varied world of sexual nature.
Using the colour red as a theme, models were shot in a …
This 2 x 60min series hand selects 10 contestants from over 2000 applicants and subjects them to 12 hardcore scientific tests devised by the country?s leading scientists across the whole range of human function.
From physical endurance to mental dexterity to social skills, the aim is to find the most …
This performance video takes place in a clinical, stark and sterile laboratory. Hidden under the bands clothes, they’re all wired up to shock pads ? the kind used to firm and tone muscles. Throughout the promo they are subjected to random shocks of increasing intensity and frequency.
In this second film for Green Thing, Jesse Hackett aka Elmore Judd goes to a recycling centre, picks up some random bits of metal and wood, uses them to make some amazing instruments and then uses them to make some amazing music…
A promotional film for Sony used to launch their new business initiative ‘Sony1. like no other’. The campaign was set up to help business users of Sony products…
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Since it began trading in early 2003, Firecracker Films has produced high profile documentaries to critical acclaim and outstanding viewing figures, as well as innovative motion graphics, 3D animations and successful corporate campaigns for a wide range of blue chip clients. These include the BBC, Channel 4, Five, Sky, …
Featuring some of the most intimate footage of wild bears ever seen, this moving series follows Charlie Vandergaw, an extraordinary man who has been living a potentially lethal existence deep in the Alaskan wilderness for over 20 years.
Charlie has developed a unique, but controversial, relationship with …
Against all odds, Shiloh Pepin of Portland, Maine turned 8 years old in August 2007. She was born with Mermaid Syndrome, or Sirenomelia, one of the rarest conditions known to man. This condition means the foetus fails to develop normally below the waist, resulting …
Film maker Lawrence Barraclough’s follow up to “My Penis and I”, one of the most watched and talked about documentaries on BBC Three. It is a film about penis size, men and why that thing that lives between their legs is such a big deal to …
Mania is a 3 x 60′ highly visual series that looks inside the mind of the maniac and attempts to understand the overwhelming impulses that can take over the human body.
Pyromania follows those with an unhealthy fascination for fire. From children who play with fire to …
In 2001, two of the world’s leading plastic surgeons, pioneering the latest technology and surgical techniques set up the UK’s only charity to offer surgery to overseas children suffering with facial disfigurement.
With unprecedented access, this feature-length film follows five extraordinary cases spanning three continents. …
A growing number of people are choosing a new way of life. They have rejected monogamy and turned their backs on conventional relationships. They believe their lifestyle is the future. They believe in polyamory.
Polyamory is the philosophy and practice of loving more than one. It means …
This films examines what attracts ordinary women to some of the world’s most dangerous men as well as highlighting the difficulties of maintaining such relationships when the man is locked up for life. The film also includes the incredible story of one Texas prison guard who …
This film tells the incredible story of Dena Thompson, dubbed ‘The Black Widow’, a woman who married men, and then tried to kill them after conning them out of everything they owned.
After sending her first husband on the run, murdering her second husband …
A subculture exists throughout contemporary suburban Britain that many find hard to comprehend: educated teenagers regularly gather in ‘federations’ to inflict terrible wounds on one another.
This sport, originally based on professional wrestling, contains all the ritual and commentary of a WWF bout, but the fighters use …
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