Portfolio
Film, Photography & Audio
Brave Day creates thoughtful, engaging film, photography and audio for organisations, programmes and events.
Our portfolio brings together documentary films, campaigns, learning resources, event coverage and collaborative creative projects.
Each commission starts with understanding its purpose, audience and the stories that need to be told. From initial research and narrative development to filming, photography, and post-production, we shape the creative approach around each project's needs.
Much of our work is rooted in education, arts, health and communities, where we use documentary and story-led approaches to capture people, experiences, ideas and the work happening around them.
We also work with agencies, businesses and other clients on commercial projects, including event coverage, interviews, promotional and marketing content, social media films and photography.
Projects can range from a single day of filming or photography through to longer-term commissions involving story development, interviews, production and editing. Depending on the scale of the project, Kirstie works independently or brings together a trusted team of creative collaborators.
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Salford 100 Centenary documentary films
Salford City Council
This year marks 100 years since Salford was granted city status. The celebrations will stretch across the year, including an exciting arts programme of activities for the community.
Brave Day has been commissioned to document the activities and create highlight videos, with a particular focus on community activity and engagement. We kick off the year by filming and producing a promo, ‘The Salford Way ’-a poem written in collaboration with community groups working with Art with Heart CIC.
Live Well Communities Fund case study films
GMCA & NHS Greater Manchester
A multi-layered storytelling project documenting the prototype year of the Live Well Communities Fund to create content for a learning pack, and to promote the initiative to funders and investors.
Project overview
Brave Day was commissioned by Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and NHS Greater Manchester, working in partnership with A Brilliant Thing CIC, to design and coordinate a multi-layered storytelling approach for the £1m Live Well Communities Fund.
The Live Well Fund is an ambitious programme that places decision-making power directly in the hands of communities across Greater Manchester, enabling local groups to decide how health and wellbeing funding is best used in their area. Rather than prescribing solutions, the programme centres lived experience, local knowledge, and community-led change.
The storytelling challenge was not to produce a single, polished narrative but to document and make sense of a complex, evolving process while supporting learning, reflection, and evaluation across multiple stakeholders.
For 2026, the Live Well Fund will collaborate with the GM Mayor’s Charity to raise more investment, as healthy, supported communities are a preventive measure for tackling homelessness.
The film ‘Live Well Communities Fund’, produced by Brave Day, was shown to an audience of businesses and philanthropists at a recent GM Mayor’s Charity Event.
This Landscape Is Ours
Breaking Barriers Rochdale and IOU Creation Centre
A collaboration between sound designers, artists, music composers, filmmakers and photographers to create a binaural audio night walk through Halifax city centre, with pop-up video projections.
The narrative captures the stories of over 40 people living in Calderdale.
All video projection content produced by Kirstie Henderson, Brave Day.
Get To Know Where To Go
NHS Greater Manchester
NHS Greater Manchester commissioned Brave Day to create a campaign video to share with the public, encouraging people to know where to go for 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.
BBC Contains Strong Language Festival
BBC Radio and Drama
Festival highlights and documenting of project stories for BBC Radio and BBC Arts Contains Strong Language Festival, now in its 9th year.
Brave Day documented the three-day festival over several years, showcasing the creative community projects commissioned for it. Most recently, documenting the festival in Salford 2026.
What About Me?
Breaking Barriers Rochdale and Salford Community Leisure
What About Me? is a collaborative multimedia light-and-sound walk through Salford’s Parr Fold Park.
The project was co-created by a team of creative directors, sound designers, artists, composers, filmmakers, and photographers to produce a binaural audio-and-video projection night walk through the park over several nights.
Kirstie Henderson, Brave Day, was a key partner, commissioned by producers Breaking Barriers to capture the video and photography and create the video projections for the walk.
Kirstie also mentored young company members in video and photography as part of the commission.
Cervical Screening in South Asian Communities
Pendle West Primary Care Network (Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Partnership)
Pendle West PCN commissioned Brave Day to create an awareness and educational video aimed at women in South Asian communities, who face health inequalities and inequity due to cultural and social barriers in accessing healthcare information and provision.
We worked with community champions in the area of Brierfield, Nelson - South Asian women who are supporting women in their communities to be informed and encouraged to attend health checks, in particular cervical screening appointments. The community-led approach to the film was successful in encouraging an uptake in smear test appointments.
Performance and Poetry learning resource
Open University and BBC Learning
A creative learning resource commissioned by BBC and The Open University. Brave Day worked with Producer Caroline Kelly to create 3 films featuring prominent poets, performers, and writers asking, “What is Performance Poetry?” The learning resources supplemented a Kae Tempest documentary aired on BBC 2
connect.open.ac.uk/history-and-the-arts/being-kae-tempest
200 Years of Creative Excellence
Manchester Metropolitan University SODA and School of Art
Celebratory and educational films commissioned by Manchester Metropolitan University’s 200th anniversary celebrations.
Brave Day was commissioned to co-design and produce a series of short films celebrating the University’s long-standing influence on creativity, innovation, and social change.
Ripples of Hope Festival
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation and Curious Minds
An interactive multimedia e-book, and documentary films, commissioned by esteemed RFK Human Rights Foundation.
A 4 day festival held at HOME, Manchester, combining poetry, performance and talks.
Poetry and Misogyny
Manchester Metropolitan University
An educational film and learning resource - documenting Manchester Met University’s response to the international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence Festival.
The film explores gender-based violence through the lens of language, poetry and creative activism. The festival was organised by award-winning poet, writer and Manchester Met Senior Lecturer, Dr Kim Moore, with the aim of raising awareness of gender-based violence and the language of misogyny, partnering with Manchester Women’s Aid. It also examines how poetry can serve as a tool for social change.
Where next?
If you’d like to see how this thinking translates into practice, explore the different ways to work with Brave Day.
Research & Impact Storytelling →
For programmes, research and organisations wanting to capture learning, lived experience and change.
Strategic Storytelling & Training →
For teams wanting to plan, commission or create storytelling more thoughtfully.
Brave Day Stories →
Reflections from the field on storytelling, research, learning and impact.
About Brave Day →
Our purpose, principles and the thinking that shapes how we work.
Who we are→
More about Brave Day’s founder, her experience and her approach to sensemaking through storytelling.