Green spaces + health
Evidence that people can feel.
Stories that translate place-based research and lived experience into a shared public understanding.
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Impact storytelling for people and places
Films that move people to act.
Collodion helps CICs, charities, green and blue space organisations, and research teams turn real stories into films that mobilise funders, communities, and policymakers.
Trusted by teams creating positive change
01 / A DIFFERENT STARTING POINT
Your work creates change.
Your film should help create it too.
You do not need a video simply because video is expected. You need a story that helps people understand why your work matters — and gives them a reason to do something next.
That might mean helping a funder see the value of a project, bringing a community into a conversation, or making research meaningful beyond the people who produced it.
“A beautiful film is not the point. The action it unlocks is.
02 / A strategy-first approach
The Impact
Story System.
Collodion’s four-stage process brings together the clarity of a communications strategy, the craft of documentary filmmaking, and a practical plan for getting your story in front of the people who need to see it.
- 01
Define the impact
Start with the change that matters: who needs to act, what they need to understand, and what a useful outcome looks like.
- 02
Build the story
Find the people, places, evidence, and moments that make the work real — then shape a narrative with a clear purpose.
- 03
Make the film
A calm, documentary-led production that lets people speak in their own words and makes space for the truth of the work.
- 04
Mobilise the audience
Prepare the right cuts, messages, and release plan so the story can reach beyond the edit suite.
One clear outcome. One story worth telling. A plan to help it travel.
On location / Community first
03 / Where the work lands
Built for organisations with something important at stake.
The team behind the work is often small. The story has to be clear enough for a busy funder, human enough for a community, and robust enough for a policymaker or research partner.
- Funding & partnership stories
- Make the value of your work tangible when a funding decision, a new relationship, or the next phase of a project depends on being understood.
- Community stories
- Create room for people to speak in their own words, with the care and attention that community work deserves.
- Research, health & place
- Turn evidence into a story that can travel from reports and projects to public, policy, and funding audiences.
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04 / Field evidence
Stories made
to travel further.
Each project begins with a different purpose. The common thread is a commitment to making the work feel real to the people it needs to reach.
Canal of Light
The power of urban
blue spaces
A film for Safe Regeneration’s Innovation Fund project, following people as they connect with water in Bootle.
Read the field noteGroundsWell
Green spaces and
health
Bringing together voices from across a consortium working to make green space accessible and meaningful.
Read the field note
05 / Why Collodion
A partner who understands the ground you are working on.
Collodion is based in Liverpool and works alongside organisations making a practical difference to people and places. Meaningful stories are rarely found in a polished briefing document. They are found in conversations, relationships, lived experience, and the detail of work that is already changing lives.
Our approach combines strategic thinking with a documentary sensibility: listening carefully, making people feel at ease, and finding the moments that help an audience understand not just what you do, but why it matters now.
▸Documentary-led craft, shaped by a decade of filmmaking experience.
06 / Start here
What needs to
happen next?
Tell us who you need to reach, what you need them to do, and the work you want more people to understand. We will explore whether an Impact Story can help move it forward.
Book an Impact Story conversationNo finished brief required. Start with the outcome that matters.
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