Nowadays / Waiting List
Writer & Director / Phoebe Brooks
Producer / Jenny Garrett
Director of Photography / Charles Mori
HMU Artist / Raphael Arcadios & Saint Maretto
Editor / Ben Harding
Colour / CHEAT & Karol Cybulski
Sound Design & Mix / Matt Valentine
Casting Director / Tom Payne Casting
Exec. Producers / Thom Wood & Guy Saville
The wait to see a gender specialist can be up to 7 years. In that time, tens of thousands of people are being denied the opportunity to live their lives authentically. It’s time to end the wait.
Created amidst heightened political vilification of trans people, ‘Waiting List’ is a passion project from Nowadays, written and directed by Phoebe Brooks. Our film follows a young trans woman taking the first steps in seeking gender-affirming healthcare, only to find the future she could have had slipping through her fingers, as she faces rejection from the system.
Collaborating with trans-led charity Gendered Intelligence for the release, the film was widely shared online and honoured with a Shiny Award, serving as a powerful testament to the importance of raising awareness and the urgent need for change.
Nowadays / Chasing Circles
A Film by Nowadays
Director / Georgia Hussey
Director of Photography / Jack Dixon
Sound / Guy Dowsett
Editor / Jon Beagley
Colour / Ben Harding
Executive Producers / Guy Saville & Thom Wood
Travel down quiet country lanes and across golden corn fields to discover a man with an obsession as mysterious as the patterns that inspire it. A Nowadays passion-project, Chasing Circles is a film about belief and the strange places where we find meaning.
Shot over a single sweltering summer in the English countryside, this short documentary follows Paul, a crop circle researcher dedicated to the study and promotion of crop circle phenomena, as he faces derision and ridicule from some, but warmth and community from others.
Chasing Circles was first screened at our 15th Anniversary / rebranding event. It is currently under consideration for entry into several documentary film festivals.
Nowadays / Wigmakers
A Film by Nowadays
Director / Jon Beagley
Producers / Georgia Hussey & Sophie Christophersen
Director of Photography / Joe Gainsborough
Editor / Becca Human
Colourist / Ben Harding
Composers / Ed Whitman, Josiah Steinbrick
Welcome to the little known world of the wig making workshop, where two individuals’ experience of loss has led to an unexpected change in career direction.
Determined to capture the intimate, unnerving quality of the wigmaking process, we enlisted cinematographer Joe Gainsborough, whose beautifully textured documentary work we’d long been fans of. The finished edit combines 16mm film and 4k footage with immersive sound design to create a uniquely mesmeric viewing experience.
Premiering at our Nowadays brand relaunch in the summer of 2022, the film has received an overwhelmingly positive response. It continues to encourage conversation around insecurity, loss and the power hair has on our lives.
Nowadays / Sunnyside
Director / Danny Baldwin
Producer / Kezia Clark
Director of Photography / Charles Harrison Mori
Editor & Colourist / Jon Beagley
Composer / Daniel Sonabend
What do you envisage inside a ‘Men’s Shed’? A dusty armchair and a vintage TV just about picking up the footy? How about a place that brings people together, to help foster community through craftsmanship.
Preventing loneliness is at the heart of the Men’s Sheds cause, and we jumped at the chance to make this film about the work they do and to tell the intimate stories of some of the people they’ve helped.
We released the film to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week and really hope it provided some support and an understanding that we are never alone in feeling lonely.
Nowadays / Wallpaper
Director / Thom Wood
Producer / Arianna Meschia
Director of Photography / Guy Saville
Associate Producer / Titas Halder
Editor / Sam Woodcock
Colourist / James Angus