FAR FEATURES STATEMENT ON BLACK LIVES MATTER
Far Features Ltd supports and endorses UKRI statement on Black Lives Matter We are a small creative production company registered in the United Kingdom built on values of respect, acceptance of all people and stand totally against racism in all forms. We fully support and recognise the importance of tackling racism and strive for equality and are committed to building and expanding our diverse team of freelancers we work with that represents all backgrounds.
Community Values Statement
From Far Features Team
Far Features Ltd supports and endorses UKRI statement on Black Lives Matter
We are a small creative production company registered in the United Kingdom built on values of respect, acceptance of all people and stand totally against racism in all forms.
We fully support and recognise the importance of tackling racism. We strive for equality and are committed to building and expanding our diverse team of freelancers we work with that represents all backgrounds.
We work on productions and stories internationally within diverse cultures worldwide.
We stand against:
Discrimination on grounds of age, sex, race, religious beliefs, gender identity or sexual orientation, which has no place within the Far Features Ltd collective and community.
We support & commit to:
Continue to support our diverse collective filmmakers, writers and photographers and promote their work.
Use our creative work to give a platform to promote and publish work from diverse voices through our channels.
Collaborate on projects that tackle racism, persecution and inequality.
#Black Lives Matter
UKRI STATEMENT ON BLACK LIVES MATTER
Racism takes lives and breeds hate. We grieve for all those who have lost their lives to this form of injustice, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Stephen Lawrence and David Oluwale. This is not a problem that occurs ‘elsewhere’, or one that has only happened in the last two weeks. There are centuries of injustices to reflect on here and to begin to reckon with. The mobilisation that has occurred within communities in the UK, and across the globe, highlights the overwhelming message of solidarity against racism and anti-blackness.
Our research and innovation community has expressed with us their anger, grief, frustration and even exhaustion. We share those feelings and recognise the importance of taking a stand against racism and the violent acts of brutality connected to George Floyd’s and others’ deaths.
Yet we also know that racism takes many forms – including far more subtle forms that keep Black people out of the room and silence their voices. There is also the racism that sees people stereotyped because of the colour of their skin or denied a job because of their last names. We know that to engage deeply in anti-racist work involves more than just writing a statement. It involves the on-going and longer-term commitment of practising justice. We want a world that dedicates itself to this longer-term commitment and to achieving justice in practice.
We have begun work to address our structures, our work environments and the ways that we may be perpetuating problems – in terms of who we represent, who we invite to the table, who we partner with and fund. This is something that we will be focusing our energies on as we do the work that is needed to right the systemic wrongs that racism creates.
Alongside this will be a renewed dedication to listen to, support and continue to champion the many researchers, innovators, organisations and community advocates who have been doing this work for a very, very long time. We are challenging ourselves, and the entire research and innovation sector, to reflect on whether we as individuals, and as a community, are doing enough to eradicate racism.
Everyone deserves opportunity and a future, and that cannot happen in a world in which anti-blackness remains. #Black Lives Matter.
On behalf of the UKRI executive team:
Professor Sir Mark Walport, UKRI Chief Executive
Professor Andrew Thompson, Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Professor Melanie Welham, Executive Chair of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Professor Dame Lynn Gladden, Executive Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Professor Jennifer Rubin, Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council
Dr Ian Campbell, Executive Chair of Innovate UK
Professor Fiona Watt, Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council
Professor Sir Duncan Wingham, Executive Chair of the Natural Environment Research Counci
David Sweeney, Executive Chair of Research England
Professor Mark Thomson, Executive Chair of the Science and Technology Facilities Counci
Emma Lindsell and Isobel Stephen, UKRI Executive Director for Strategy and Governance
Sue Donaldson, UKRI Chief People Office
Mike Blackburn, Interim UKRI Chief Finance Officer
Our mission statement is also here.
RECYCLED FOOTAGE PROJECT FAR FOUND LAUNCHES
Far Found is our new video & image recycling project.
OUR 2020 project to UNjunk YOUR footage and recycle it
AGE OF RECORD : OUR TIME OF IMAGE OVERLOAD
Humanity will take 1,436,300,000,000 photos in 2020, or more than 1.4 trillion images. Most of them never see the light of day. The total number of photos stored is expected to rise from 7.4 trillion in 2020 to 9.3 trillion in 2022.
“1.7 megabytes of new data is created every second, for every human on the planet,” writes Bernard Marr in Big Data In Practice. This data is coming from emails, messages, posts and a big bulk from photos and video footage.
“The question of where all this media will go in the future has been shoved aside. The more urgent question is: What are we supposed to do with it right now?”, the New York Times reports.
At the turn of the century 80 billion photographs had been produced, ever since the very first photograph was captured in 1838 in France.
That number is nothing by today’s standards, as we race towards the two trillion mark of images generated annually.
At the same time, 90 per cent of the data on the internet has been created since 2016, according to an IBM Marketing Cloud study, and as of June 2019 there are now over 4.4 billion internet users, an 83 per cent increase in the number of people using the internet in just five years. Three hundred million photos are uploaded to Facebook, 95 million to Instagram every day and 300 hours of video footage every hour to Youtube.
At the same time, physical media - prints and home video tapes - have declined, meaning digital archives both personal and work have grown exponentially. What value is on all that footage out there not being used?
Enter our new project…
Stock to story.
recycle your stock into a story
PROJECT DETAILS
Far Found is our new video & image recycling project. The project turns discarded, junk, stock or archival video footage and images into something new and of value to footage owners and audiences. We unarchive video and photography for media, companies and NGOs to create short films and multimedia stories for digital distribution.
If you work for a company with banks of archive footage, we can produce and edit your stock into a compelling visual story. Get in touch here and we can reply with a creative response and our rates.
Far Found was created in response to recent travel-affected film productions and a less-is-more ethos within our company. In 2020, our focus is on moving towards a multimedia + minimalist approach to production work and remote producing projects in line with our company values.
A project to find value in discarded footage locked in data storage.
Problem
Junk, old, unused, stock, archival footage cluttering digital and physical space.
Solution
Create nostalgic, historic, entertaining and engaging short films or multimedia campaigns that reinforce recycling philosophies for companies, media & NGOs.
Services
Our script writer, producer, photographer, designer and editor can produce:
Archival footage producing
Stock footage producing/editing
End-to-end project producing: concept, scripting, editing, sound mix
Archive/Stock collage art posters
Short creative factual films for digital distribution
Photo series
Multimedia storytelling platforms to house “found stories”
FOLLOW
2020 MISSION: HEALTH — OF US, OF THE PLANET
Our work over the past couple of years has taken us heavily into health projects — human and environmental. With recent events, we are even more committed to producing impactful creative-nonfiction and multimedia documentary arts projects related to our new health focus: Health of us, health of the planet.
By Far Features
Our work over the past couple of years has taken us heavily into health projects — human and environmental.
With recent events, we are even more committed to producing impactful creative-nonfiction and multimedia documentary arts projects related to our new health focus: Health of us, health of the planet.
Get in touch with us if you want to work with us at farfeatures.com.
Far Features is constructed around one ideal: Go further.
Go Further is an idea that filters into all areas of our business and sister companies to uphold our company values. We are in business to get creative ideas made into projects. We go further to make sure that happens.
Our values form the guiding principles of our business. They inform all our internal and external working relationships and operations.
CREATE TO EXPRESS
Support creative expression and original ideas. Creative ideas become real when they move from the individual out into the community. Get passion-focused projects made. Support our creative network. Work with people, companies and NGOs with the same beliefs.
LESS IS MORE
A multimedia + minimalist approach to media production is the future. Aim for maximum output, minimal footprint. Zero-plastic policy. Be experimental with new storytelling tools to do better, faster, more relevant work. Remote work is the future of creative media production.
WRITE A RENEWABLE FUTURE
Creative work can influence the future for a better environment. A value since our inception, we believe ethical media production matters. We work with media, companies and NGOs working to help, not hinder the current climate crisis and transition to write a renewable energy future.
HUMANISE
Human-interest at heart. Value individuality. Value creative self-expression. Humanise subjects with focus on meaning over magnitude. Counter deindividuation. Highlight universal values through individual stories and narratives. Human stories can transcend borders and break down barriers.
HEALTH OF US, HEALTH OF THE PLANET
We believe the health of us, and the health of the environment are intrinsically linked. We highlight human and environmental health issues and support NGOs in these areas. We intend to keep our promise we made to explorer Sir Robert Swan to use our creative work to create awareness about the plight of the polar regions and support 2041 Foundation.
If your organisation shares our values, and you want to partner, co-produce, finance one of our Far Originals projects or hire our Far Studio services, contact us here.
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