RESEARCH FILMS

“[We felt] really supported. I mean Carl's really responsive, and I often felt with both him and… other people who are involved, I thought, gosh, they are putting in so much time. I don't know how the invoice is calculated, it may not be by the hour, but I thought, gosh, they are putting in an awful lot of time for what they're getting. And it just showed to me, that they do it for the love of it. And the commitment to producing something that everybody can be proud of, and that is in some way new, and that was very evident. It was just a great experience. I never had to worry about whether I was going to get a response. And I felt that they were totally, totally committed to making something that we were all happy with.”

“I just felt I could be confident - it goes back to that point about empathy - that they would understand what we were trying to do. And they would help us, that they would take us beyond where we can go ourselves, because we're not experts about that kind of communication. And that they would help us make that transition into a different type of work. I don't know how many companies there are who fill that niche of an interest in both the humanities and the sciences, but making content that is accessible, but it's quite ambitious intellectually. Plenty of companies make documentaries and so on, but there's something about the way they position themselves… that made me think, yes, this is great, it's not academia, but it's interested in going into academia and looking at what's going on, and then bringing out the results for a broader audience..”