Portfolio

A selection of Brave Day multi-media storytelling projects and inter-disciplinary creative collaborations.

200 years of creative excellence

Three short films by Brave Day, commissioned by Manchester Metropolitan University in 2024 to celebrate 200 years of creative excellence. The films feature profiles of prestigious creative alumni.

  • Artist Ryan Gander talks about why everyone should go to art school for at least one year.

  • Textile artist Alice Kettle and Ibukun Baldwin on the power of art for healing and social change

  • Simon Rutter, former Head of Sony PlayStation Europe, on the role creative digital arts can play in shaping the future.

Get to know where to go

NHS Greater Manchester commissioned Brave Day to create a campaign video to share with the public, encouraging people to get to know where to go when needing treatment or urgent care. Brave Day produced the script, filmed and edited the main campaign video, which was then repurposed into several short social media clips. Motion graphic animations created by Nat Wood.

this landscape is ours

Brave Day collaborated with sound designers, artists, music composers, and photographers to create a multi-media, multi-disciplinary storytelling project commissioned by Breaking Barriers Rochdale and IOU Creation. The 45-minute binaural audio story narrative captures the stories of over 40 people living in the Calderdale region.

Audience members were invited to listen on headphones as they walked through the streets of Halifax, witnessing surprise pop-up video projections (created by Brave Day) along the route. The walk ends in the magnificent beauty of the iconic Piece Hall.

I like to move; I move what I can

A multi-disciplinary storytelling project, commissioned by Hull Dance company.

Working in collaboration with choreographers, a dance group, and a music composer, Brave Day produced four dance films for a project that brought together four women living with limited movement to share their stories through treasured objects and several months of online meetings for movement and well-being sessions. Supported by the Flourish dance group, the films culminate in the women’s progression and the courage to share their dance stories on film.

THIS IS US

A film commissioned by RFK Human Rights Foundation exploring the meaning of the Declaration of Human Rights to young people, exploring themes of home, identity, stigma and stereotypes, activism and hopes for the future.

This film documents the year-long project, highlighting the passion and engagement the students showed for these themes; an emerging generation of young activists

Co-produced by Director Parvez Qadir of Breaking Barriers Rochdale and Filmmaker Kirstie Henderson Brave Day, and the students of Falinge Park High School.

The roots programme

The Roots Programme seeks to break down barriers and bring people together. 

Brave Day documented the innovative exchange programme between a Manchester-based private and state school to break down barriers, and nurture compassion, connection and empathy.

https://rootsprogramme.org

just being black

Blossom Foundation, a Manchester-based charity supporting young black girls through creative wellbeing workshops, wrote and co-produced this powerful short drama, funded by BBC Children In Need, to show the challenges black girls encounter in schools.

Brave Day filmed and edited the scenes, assisted by some of the young people helping to record sound and record some visuals.

BBC Contains strong language festival

BBC Radio and BBC Arts launched a unique poetry, spoken word, and performance festival in 2017 as part of the Hull City of Culture programme.

Brave Day documented the three-day festival and subsequent festival years in other locations.

Brave Day also created several films showcasing the creative community projects commissioned as part of the festival. These included local groups such as women’s writing collectives, young people’s spoken word groups, and international exchange projects.

One of the festival projects was Unwritten Poems - a book of poetry, performance and film, commissioned by BBC Contains Strong Language, Nine Arches Press and the British Council.

Brave Day filmed and edited the short film documenting the project, which invited Caribbean and diaspora poets and writers to respond to the Caribbean engagement in the First World War and uncover the hidden histories.Their stories remain largely unknown.

Poet and writer Karen McCarthy leads the poets in exploring what the poems of the soldiers and their families may have been about. What stories would they tell?