Independent Film Production
Producer of place-based film and television rooted in landscape, memory and lived history.
We don't just make films — we cultivate memory, place and belonging.
About Nidd Films
Nidd Films was founded by producer Mark Anthony and is based in North Yorkshire. Its work is shaped by a place-led approach that brings together landscape, archive, and lived experience. Taking its name from the River Nidd — meaning brilliant or shining — Nidd Films is grounded in the belief that story begins with place, and that landscape is never simply backdrop, but presence. Projects are developed through a place-led, research-driven process bringing together archive, landscape, and lived experience. The work is shaped by careful listening: to sites, to communities, to overlooked histories, and to the quieter traces that remain when official narratives fall away. This approach values ethical engagement, creative clarity, and development that grows organically rather than being imposed. Accessibility is embedded from the earliest stages of writing and development. Projects are conceived with disability access in mind, ensuring that, wherever possible, the stories, materials, and experiences created by Nidd Films are open to a wide range of audiences, collaborators, and communities. Access is treated not as an afterthought, but as part of how work is structured, shared, and encountered. From the historical short film Sweetheart: Angel of the Moor to the practice-led project The Valley: A Keeping, Nidd Films operates as a connected creative slate. Each project informs the next, building a body of work that values continuity over spectacle, care over extraction, and attention over noise.
Sweetheart: Angel of the Moor is a historical short film inspired by true events that took place in Nidderdale in 1858, and marks the first screen project developed under Nidd Films’ place-led practice. Blending grounded period detail with subtle poetic realism, the film explores themes of obsession, justice, and remembrance through the story of a young woman whose voice was lost to history — and whose presence continues to echo through the landscape. Alongside the film, a focused outreach and heritage programme is in development, designed to reconnect audiences with the landscapes, archives, and communities that shaped the story. Through workshops, guided experiences, and creative engagement, the project brings the past into dialogue with the present, allowing forgotten voices to be encountered again with care and respect.
At Nidd Films, every story begins with place. We draw on history, folklore, and human experience to tell stories that reclaim forgotten voices and reveal new ways of seeing the past.
Each project is built on deep research and authentic detail — finding truth in the landscape and giving voice to those who history has too often silenced.
Sweetheart
Angel of the Moor
🎬 Project Status: In Development
"Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through."
"Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by."
Poem by Christina Rossetti.
“Restoring the silenced life of Mary-Jane Skaife, Sweetheart: Angel of the Moor is a film about justice, memory, and women’s voices.”
“True stories from the edges of history.”
