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short film we produced for The Royal Society — The Ethical Science of Kathleen Lonsdale — has been nominated for a @thewebbyawards in the Science & Education category. The film features Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS, exploring Lonsdale’s remarkable life — from her pioneering work on crystal structures to her lifelong commitment to pacifism and ethical science. Part of the competition is decided by public vote — if you have a moment, please vote and share. Link in bio. Kathleen Lonsdale was an extraordinary figure. She grew up in poverty, was the only girl studying physics in a boys’ school, and achieved the top physics results in London over a ten-year period. She went on to help transform our understanding of atomic structure, was imprisoned for her pacifist beliefs, and later became a leading prison reformer and advocate for ethical science. The world needs more people like her — now more than ever. Yet her story remains largely unknown. Please vote for the film so her story spreads a bit further. /PublicVoting#/2026/video-film/general-video-film/science-education @spiritedpics @petermannpictures @theroyalsociety @jeromemonnot @oscaroldershaw @jfcampbell__ @romainkedochim @mrrichardking #kathleenlonsdale #womeninstem #prisonreform #crystallography #pacifism

Very proud to share this short documentary I produced and directed in close collaboration with Rachel Lowe, head of the Global Health Resilience Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center @bsc_cns , commissioned by Felipe J Colón-González and Isabel Fletcher at @wellcometrust From the heart of the Amazon to one of the worlds fastest computer, the project explores innovative solutions to address infectious diseases driven by extreme climate events, environmental degradation, and socio-economic inequality. 🌎 🎬 🦟 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 By combining satellite data, seasonal climate forecasts, and advanced computing with local knowledge, Harmonize interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and community organisations is creating practical, easy-to-use digital tools to track and predict disease outbreaks. The goal is to give policymakers clear, actionable information to strengthen health systems, build climate resilience, and reduce the impact of vector-borne diseases. Producer/Director @jeromemonnot Executive Producer @mrrichardking Production company @spiritedpics Consulting Director Rachel Lowe DOP + drone operator Colombia @thetallestjason DOP + drone operator Brazil @nadarsky Camera UK + Spain @jeromemonnot Assistant camera Colombia @felipearamburojaramillo Film editor @jeromemonnot Motion designer @raoulpaulet Sound design + mix @soundarkstudios Grade @romainkedochim Music intro @_kamaru_ #Harmonize #WellcomeTrust #ClimateAndHealth #Globalhealth #Climatechange @bsc , INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais of Brazil), @oficialfiocruz - Oswaldo Cruz Foundation of Brazil, @andes_university Universidad de Los Andes, INDOMET (Dominican Republic Institute of Meteorology), UPCH (Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia) and Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research @iai_globalchange Honored to have been involved and huge thanks to Rachel Lowe and the community of public health experts, epidemiologists, climate scientists, engineers, and data scientists whose work continues to make a real difference on the ground and will be invaluable in the years to come. Link in bio

How can drones be used for good? When you hear about drones, you might think of surveillance or conflict. But with this research project, drones are lifesavers. HARMONIZE is using aerial images to pinpoint disease hotspots. This technology then helps communities and health workers respond to infectious diseases, like dengue, which are become more prevalent as a result of climate change. As the world warms, new methods like this can help us adapt.

Very proud that Trust: Overcoming Mistrust in Health Research has been officially selected for the Activists Without Borders Film Festival (UK) @activistswithoutborders and received an Honorary Award for Efforts in Social Filmmaking 🙏🏽🙏🏽✨ Created with over 30 community and health expert contributors, across 7 NHS Trusts and a GP research facility, Trust explores the vital relationship between trust and health research. It explores historical abuses and systemic injustices that shape deep mistrust, and highlights how health inequity driven by poor research inclusion isn’t just a matter of social justice — it’s bad science. Filmed in part at the incredible Tavares Strachan ‘There Is Light Somewhere’ exhibition at the @hayward.gallery @southbankcentre Produced by @spiritedpics for the @nihr_research NIHR Research Delivery Network Filmmaking, Visual Direction, Editing & Grading: @mrrichardking & @jeromemonnot Director: Keerti Gedela Grateful to our amazing contributors who shared their stories and helped bring this film to be a vital tool for change. #TrustFilm #SocialFilmmaking #HealthEquity #PublicEngagement #NIHR #IndependentFilm #SpiritedProductions #DocumentaryFilm #FilmmakingForChange #HarrietTubman #HenriettaLacks

SAFE has made it to Margate!! 🎉🥳🥳🏳️‍⚧️ @margatefilmfest #MargateFilmFest 🎥 🌊🦞 As part of the Queer Shorts programme screened daily at CAMP campmargate.com Weds 26th – Fri 29th Nov:  7pm Sun 30th: 12pm, 2pm, 4pm. So happy for our beautiful, short film SAFE 🙏🏽❤️✨🔥 Our film is an unapologetic act of presence, resistance, vulnerability, and joy, insisting that trans rights are human rights, and that public culture must carry public care and safety for all. This programme is “Authentic, unapologetic, and fiercely celebratory.. From intimate letters to younger selves in Margate, to a trans football team making history against rising hostility, to a fashion designer’s creative response to grief, to a vital protest film demanding trans safety—these stories refuse erasure.. In times of increasing fear and exclusion, these films are acts of resistance and love—reminders that queer lives are not debates, but beautiful, complex realities deserving of celebration and protection” Entry is FREE! via the booking link ⬇️ /event/shorts-6-queer-voices/ Beauty & Ocean (and free! 😮) = No brainer but to be right there!! Credits:
Featured NHS staff & Co-Creative Directors: Zelda Le Louarn @madame_moi_zel , Jason Potts, @its.cherrybaby.xox Cherry Monroe Miller
 Poem: Safe by Jason Potts
Music: “Gaia Be Free” & “The Undying Author” — @margomool 

Director/Creative Concept: Keerti Gedela
Filmmaking & Visual Direction: @jeromemonnot Directors of Photography: @oscaroldershaw & @jeromemonnot Editor: @romain.beck Colour Grading: @romainkedochim 
 Produced by: @spiritedpics 
Executive Producer: @chelwestft / @56deanstreetofficial

🎬 Free Screenings from #BigSynFilmFest2025, the World's Biggest Sustainability Film Festival are live! Watch #Trust, produced by @spiritedpics for the @nihr_research Research Delivery Network, now streaming under MARGINALISED UK 👉 /mluk-screenings/ This short clip reflects on the racism and exploitation that shapes historic mistrust — and why this history still matters deeply in our pursuit of equity in research. 💥 Health inequity driven by poor research inclusion isn’t just about social justice — it’s bad science. Mistrust in health research is a global challenge that must be addressed with transparency, historical awareness, compassion, and courageous communication. In an age of division and misinformation, this film is a call to action. Modern healthcare must work for everyone — not just some. Please watch, share, and discuss. Only together can we rebuild trust. #TrustFilm #PoorInclusionIsBadScience #HealthEquity #Mistrust #TrustInResearch #PublicEngagement #ResearchForAll #StorytellingForImpact #RebuildTrust #FilmForChange #SocialImpactFilm #CommunityVoices #TrustFilm #PoorInclusionIsBadScience #Mistrust #HealthEquity #ResearchForAll @spiritedpics @nihr_research @chrisvt @jeromemonnot @mrrichardking

✨ Fantastic News!! ✨ So happy our film Trust, Overcoming Mistrust in Health Research is an Official Selection for #BigSynFilmFest25 @bigsyn_film_festival — the World’s Biggest Sustainability Film Festival 🌍🎬 Big Syn is the largest UN Sustainability Development Goal initiative of its kind, inspiring millions to act for the environment, society and economy. It celebrates films that share human stories of loss, resilience, struggle, adaptability and innovation — tackling issues like climate change, poverty, inequality, discrimination and injustice. The 2025 festival runs 17–26 October — keep an eye on bigsyn.org & @bigsyn_film_festival for updates. Very grateful to have this platform for #Trust so more people can see it alongside many impactful #changemaking films. Full of gratitude & Congratulations to all the incredible partners and contributors (I cannot express this enough!) 🙏 🙏 ❤️ 💙 💫 @bigsyn_film_festival @spiritedpics @mrrichardking @jeromemonnot @nihr_research @chelwestft @sicklecelluk @listen_to_act and many other community and health partners #bigsynfilmfest25 #ActNow #trust #inclusionisascientificimperative #healthinequity #equitybydesign #poorinclusionisbadscience #healthresearch

SAFE — a poetic act of presence, resistance, joy, and vulnerability, made by and within trans, queer, and non-binary lives. Our answer to @ladydangfua Trans & Conditions call to the @circa.art 20:25 Manifesto, REFUGIA — to put our message boldly on the Piccadilly Lights @piccadillylights - screaming with reverence that trans rights are human rights, and that our public culture must carry public care and safety for all. Although refuge is fragile, and safety a privilege in our world, we celebrate beauty and fight, always, for peace and human rights. Set to a poem ‘Safe’ by Jason Potts, this short film conveys a powerful message, reclaiming Soho’s public light as a space for belonging, protest and unapologetic life. 
Featured NHS staff & Co-Creative Directors:
Zelda Le Louarn @madame_moi_zel , Jason Potts, @its.cherrybaby.xox Cherry Monroe Miller

Poem: Safe by Jason Potts
Music: “Gaia Be Free” & “The Undying Author” — @margomool 

Creative Concept & Director: Keerti Gedela
Filmmaking & Visual Direction: @jeromemonnot 
Directors of Photography: @oscaroldershaw & @chelwestft 
Editor: @romain.beck Sound mix: @soundarkstudios 
Colour Grading: @romainkedochim 

Produced by: @spiritedpics 
Executive Producer: @chelwestft / @56deanstreetofficial 

Special Thanks to @56tsoho Prof Marta Boffito & Dr Tara Suchak @taras81

The brilliant Brighton Rocks Film Festival @brightonrocksfilms gave Trust an Honourable Mention! Proud of this one @spiritedpics @mrrichardking @jeromemonnot @stephenlongwill @nihr_research . Trust (Overcoming Mistrust in Health Research) was created with heart and purpose, shaped by over 30 incredible contributors. The film will be utilised as a tool for change. Although not part of the official screening selection, we’re honoured to have been recognised, especially among such incredible, bold, socially driven films. Grateful to be seen by a festival that elevates urgent stories and voices often left out. The 16–22nd June programme looks fantastic — no surprise it’s one of the UK’s most loved indie film festivals! 🎟️ Line-Up and Tickets here /screenings.html — see you there!

Tomorrow, we screen #Trust to a packed audience at a Rebuilding Trust, Advancing Inclusion event at the stunning @everymancinema , Borough Yards, SE1, hosted with the North London NIHR Research Delivery Network, Paddington Life Sciences, and Imperial Health Charity. With leaders from the #NHS, #NIHR, academia, industry, and our vibrant communities, we look to confront health inequalities and drive real change. 📢 The event is a Call To Action. Especially given the divisive, misleading narratives in global politics, we need a bold, defiant path forward. Health inequity driven by poor research inclusion is not simply about social injustice but an issue of bad science. #Mistrust is a major global challenge that needs to be addressed with transparency, understanding, compassion, and far better communication. This is essential for modern healthcare to do what it’s meant to do—work for everyone, not just some. With #NIHR, we’re excited to host screenings at community and NHS sites over the year before the film drops on YouTube! Co-produced with @spiritedpics ✨

Grateful, Proud, Faith (in the journey), Reflective, Honoured (to have worked with @spiritedpics & the amazing contributors).. Some feelings now our film making journey has come to an end. We premiered our public engagement film on Wednesday, ‘TRUST - Overcoming Mistrust in Health Research’ followed by a profoundly reflective panel discussion at the @cwpluscharity Medi-Cinema Chelsea & Westminster NHS Hospital. A real honour to direct this film and to be given the opportunity to create something meaningful and deeply necessary, with the supremely talented @mrrichardking & @jeromemonnot from @spiritedpics (animation by @stephenlongwill ) for the NIHR Research Delivery Network, North London. Over 30 community and health/research contributors (including the brilliant @doctorchrisvt ) involving 7 NHS Hospitals, 3 community organisations and the first GP clinical research facility in London. Filming in multiple London locations, including the Amazing @tavaresstrachan exhibition, Haywards @southbankcentre To #BuildTrust, truth, compassion, humility, and equal partnerships are essential. Acknowledging the historical abuse in clinical research is crucial, yet it is equally important to highlight that without the involvement of marginalised groups in research today, modern healthcare risks being less relevant and effective for them. A massive Thank You to all involved, we can’t wait to get this out there for you!! #collectivedialogue #LeaveNoOneBehind #Filmmaking #NIHR #Spirited #TrustInHealthcare #HealthInequality #InclusiveResearch #EquityByDesign #ClinicalResearch #Community #Collaboration #HealthInnovation #MaternalHealth #MentalHealth #SickleCell #ComplexHealthNeeds