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SEA BEYOND: DROWNING IN NOISE
Prada
In a remote Norwegian archipelago within the Arctic Circle, conservationists and volunteers are battling a tide of plastic pollution. Introduced by Benedict Cumberbatch, this is the first episode in a four-part campaign for Prada and National Geographic that took us from the tropics to the far north, exploring marine ecosystems and meeting the people trying to protect them.
LIFE ON THE EDGE
Feature Documentary
A visceral deep dive into life in contemporary Greenland, this immersive feature documentary, a UK/Greenland co-production, follows Aqissiaq ‘Nuka’ Semsen as he travels around the world’s largest island on a quest to save lives. Premiered at Sheffield Doc Fest 2024 where it received a Special Mention in the Youth Jury Award.
CREATOR COLLAB SERIES: VINEET
Glimmer
Street photographer Vineet Vohra dives deep into the Old Delhi neighbourhood he’s been shooting for decades. One of a series of artist portraits from across the globe, made in partnership with creative platform Glimmer showcasing how place informs creativity and process.
WATCH ME MOVE
Sure
Fear of judgement is a barrier to participating in sports and fitness. This global spot for Sure features athletes achieving their goals regardless of judgement. Shot in partnership with UStudio and launched during the Paralympics, the campaign won a Clio Award for Branded Content.
BLUE HEART
La Mer
Blue Heart Foundation is an initiative of luxury skincare brand La Mer that supports ocean conservation projects around the world. We filmed this 30” spot in St Vincent & The Grenadines and produced a suite of adjacent assets for use in-store and across social platforms.
A LIFE UNDERWATER
Netflix, BBC
80-year old Bajau Laut sea nomad Rohani has spent much of his life in or under the water, diving to depths of up to 40-metres on a single breath. This is his story. Filmed on location in Indonesia, this independent feature documentary won the Grant Teton Festival Prize at the Jackson Hole Film Festival, two RTS awards & five Wildscreen awards. 
SEA BEYOND: FORGOTTEN FORESTS
Prada
Overfishing, pollution, and climate change are disrupting the world's great kelp forests. We joined actress Sadie Sink and SEA BEYOND Goodwill Ambassador Giovanni Chimienti in Baja California, Mexico as they explored the southern extent of the Kelp Forest Highway. Final episode in a four-part campaign for Prada and National Geographic that took us from the tropics to the far north, exploring marine ecosystems and meeting the people trying to protect them.
SAPEUSES & ENTREPRENEURS
DHL
This three-part campaign in partnership with DHL and National Geographic looks at how logistics can positively impact our globalised world. Three NG Explorers travel to Congo, Gambia, South Africa and the Swiss Alps telling stories around conservation and culture and the role DHL plays in helping to tell these stories as well as supporting micro-enterprise projects.
WHAT WE CARRY: SLOVENIA
Prada
American poet and activist Amanda Gorman joins National Geographic explorer Arthur Huang in Slovenia to see how everything from fashion offcuts to old carpet to ghost fishing nets are being sustainably transformed into valuable new products. The fourth in a five-part campaign shot across five continents for National Geographic & Prada focusing on circular economies that are turning trash into treasure. 
THE RACE TO SAVE THE BIG CATS
DHL
In Africa, wild cheetahs are in a race for survival. A world away in Eastern Europe, lions are held captive in terrible conditions. National Geographic Photographer Nichole Sobecki finds out what’s being done to help wild cheetah populations bounce back - and what it takes to rescue big cats from trafficking and captivity, bringing them to a new home in South Africa. The first of a three-part campaign for DHL.
WHAT WE CARRY: CAMEROON
Prada
Model and refugee Adut Akech & NG Explorer Joseph Cutler visit Cameroon to meet a community recycling the discarded nylon fishing nets that are polluting their lake and threatening biodiversity. The second in a five-part campaign shot across five continents for National Geographic & Prada, focusing on circular economies that are turning plastic trash into treasure.
MIGRATIONS & GREENING AVIATION
DHL
National Geographic Photographer Lucas Foglia and scientist Aurora García-Berro head to the high mountains of Switzerland to study the changing migration patterns of the Painted Lady butterfly and what it tells us about early 21st century human society and the impacts of a changing climate. The second of a three-part campaign for DHL.
WHAT WE CARRY: ARIZONA
Prada
Actress and activist Bonnie Wright and NG Explorer Asher Jay head to Phoenix, Arizona to find out how discarded carpet is being regenerated into pristine new nylon and transformed into iconic products. The first in a five-part campaign shot across five continents for National Geographic & Prada focusing on circular economies that are turning plastic trash into treasure.
THE WORTH OF WATER: THE KAROO
Finish
The Karoo region of South Africa has been in drought for nearly a decade - households here survive on as little as 8 litres a day. But there is still water to be found here - hidden in cracks beneath the earth for millions of years. Gideon Groenewald and his team of engineers are experts at finding it. A campaign for Finish looking at the central role fresh water plays in our lives - and the life of the planet.
WHAT WE CARRY: NEW ZEALAND
Prada
NG Explorer Asha de Vos and actor Alex Fitzalan meet a group of local dive volunteers in Wellington, New Zealand who spend their weekends recovering ghost gear - lost and abandoned fishing nets that kill marine life - so they can be transformed into pristine new products. The third in a five-part campaign shot across five continents for National Geographic & Prada focusing on circular economies that are turning plastic trash into treasure.
NAT GEO APPAREL
Corem
National Geographic photographer Acacia Johnson heads to Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska, where she puts the new sustainably manufactured Nat Geo Apparel collection through its paces. Kenai Fjords is home to iconic species like orcas, humpback whales, sea otters, stellar sea lions. But the parks glaciers are in retreat - a reminder that the choices we make in our everyday lives have a direct impact on wild places.
THE WORTH OF WATER: MANATEE RESCUE
Finish
Manatees are one of Florida’s most iconic species. But they are dying at alarming rates as the seagrass beds they feed on diminish due to the overuse of industrial and domestic fertilisers and pesticides. We met the people a from ZooTampa rehabilitating distressed manatees and releasing them back into the wild. A campaign for Finish looking at the central role fresh water plays in our lives - and the life of the planet.
WHAT WE CARRY: CHINA
Prada
Humans produce one hundred billion garments every year - and tonnes of textile ends up in landfill as offcuts before they even hit the shelves. Actor Wei Daxun joins National Geographic photojournalist Hannah Reyes Morales to visit a factory in China bringing offcuts back into the supply chain. The fourth in a five-part campaign shot across five continents for National Geographic & Prada focusing on circular economies that are turning plastic trash into treasure.
Creative Collab Series: PES
Glimmer
Social-first documentary on PES – an Oscar-nominated stop motion artist – for launch of Glimmer's new platform, championing artists and filmmakers.
THE WORTH OF WATER: RETURN OF THE RIVER
Finish
River loving ecologist and keen kayaker Dr Hannah Peck makes her way along the Thames by kayak all the way from Twickenham to central London, as she explains how the river was transformed from an open sewer in the Victorian era to one of the cleanest rivers running through a major capital in the world - and the possibilities and challenges that it now faces. A campaign for Finish looking at the central role fresh water plays in our lives, and the life of the planet.
WHAT WE CARRY FORWARD: INDO-PACIFIC
Prada
Coral reefs are the rainforests of the seas. They account for less than 1% of the world’s ocean, they support 25% of all marine species. However, coral reefs could be the first global ecosystem to die off due to human wrought climate change. In Papua Indonesia, a local community is protecting the most biodiverse and resilient reefs left on the planet. The first of a three-part campaign for Prada examining our relationship with marine ecosystems. 
SHOESPIRACY
Vivobarefoot
The foot is a miraculous feat of bioengineering a million years in the making. But modern shoes have played havoc with our feet in a matter of decades, creating chronic health problems for the sake of fashion. Mini documentary commissioned by Vivo Barefoot viewed more than one million times on YouTube across two videos.
THE WORTH OF WATER: PUGLIA’S OLIVE REVIVAL
Finish
The local olive farming community and their inspiring efforts to combat desertification through a combination of traditional farming methods, replanting resilient olive species and using data-driven technologies to conserve precious water. A campaign for Finish looking at the central role fresh water plays in our lives - and the life of the planet.
WHAT WE CARRY FORWARD: ARCTIC
Prada
National Geographic Photographer Kiliii Yüyan meets Greenlandic microbiologist Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann, who merges scientific method and Indigenous knowledge to understand nature and our place in it. The last of a three-part campaign for Prada examining our relationship with marine ecosystems.
EMBRACE THE WINTER
Jersey Tourism Board
Online campaign for Visit Jersey promoting the island as a winter destination. Cold water surfer and swimmer Sophie Hellyer embraces the winter on the offshore island of Jersey, making some new friends along the way.
THE WORTH OF WATER: KO WAI MĀTOU
Finish
Year Two of our partnership with Finish and National Geographic took us to New Zealand and Italy where we looked at the plight of olive farmers in drought stricken Puglia and an Indigenous Māori community in a remote part of New Zealand without access to running water.
WHAT WE CARRY FORWARD: MEDITERRANEAN
Prada
Human-wrought changes to the biosphere are causing species to cross ecosystem boundaries en masse. The challenge now is to curb their spread. In Italy, fishing communities, restaurateurs and policy makers are developing strategies and solutions as they battle a blue crab invasion. The second of a three-part campaign for Prada examining our relationship with marine ecosystems. 
WONDERLAB
Swarovski
Swarovski's sustainability campaign celebrating their commitment to people and planet -- giving the company's staff a fairytale flourish as they head out into the magical mountain scapes of the Austrian Tyrol, Swarovski's home base.⁠
SEA BEYOND: ON ARCTIC TIDES
Prada
Benedict Cumberbatch and Goodwill ambassador of SEA BEYOND Valentina Gottlieb to uncover the devastating impact of plastic pollution in the Arctic and discover the positive change for the environment made by Prada Re-Nylon. 
EVERYDAY CHANGEMAKERS: BORNEO
IKEA
The Dayak People of Borneo have farmed rattan for centuries -- it is both sacred and utilitarian to their culture. It's also a sustainable forest product that could help keep Borneo's forests standing.
SEA BEYOND: GENTLE GIANTS
Prada
Whale sharks — the largest fish in the ocean — are a vulnerable species, yet these gentle giants don't feed on anything bigger than your index finger. The only way to protect them is to understand them. Join actress Sadie Sink and SEA BEYOND Goodwill Ambassador Giovanni Chimienti as they explore the vital role whale sharks play in underwater ecosystems.
EVERYDAY CHANGEMAKERS: RUSSIA
IKEA
Romazan Kipke grew up in the forests of the Russian Caucasus and was a logger in Soviet times. Now he's leading efforts to protect them from illegal logging. Campaign for IKEA in partnership with WWF.
EVERY DEGREE MAKES A DIFFERENCE
NAT GEO x ARIEL
A couple, both scientific researchers, analyse fluctuations in micro-organism communities on the climate change frontline in Greenland... but can small changes in our own homes make a real difference for the planet?
WHY SUSTAINABLE COTTON MATTERS
Gant
Brand documentary for Swedish fashion brand Gant filmed in Stockholm, Sweden and Karnataka, India looking at how the company is building sustainability into its manufacturing and supply chain, supporting Better Cotton and organic cotton initiatives in India and water-saving strategies alongside its production partners.
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