For a while now I’ve wanted to do more work rooted locally, and my new year intention was to prioritise building community (creatively and otherwise). Something which in the whirlwind of freelance life, I am guilty of making no time for. So I approached the founders of a local coffee shop called moi outside and asked if they’d be up for me creating a micro doc about their shop and some of the things they do.

Throughout Spring we chatted, filmed and ran together on the hills around Hebden. Ryan and his kids made an original sound track, which I love. Simon got his drone out. And the Pathfinders got sent up and down hills whilst I attempted to direct them across the tops without walkie-talkies or phone signal.

Making the film was a rare chance to just play, creatively, which I had gotten out of the habit of whilst going from job to job. As with everything I do, the perfectionist in me looks at it and sees all the things I'd do differently if I did it again, had this piece of kit or had that pot of money. But this wasn't about producing something slick, it was about the process of creating, collaborating and building community. All things that feel increasingly important in the current state of the world.