Quietcast Media
Selected work, 2021–2026

Projects

A few of the films and series we have finished, and one we are still making. Screening copies are available to festivals, broadcasters and educators on request.

Documentary · 31 min · 2024

The Last Crossing

For thirty-eight years Ellen Marsh has run the chain ferry at Hollins Reach, carrying school children, cattle trucks and the occasional lost tourist across four hundred metres of brown water. When the county announced a new bridge upstream, the ferry was given one final season.

We spent that season on board — from the first frost in October to the last crossing in March — and filmed a community quietly working out what it means to lose the thing that connects them.

Director
Nadia Ferrell
Camera
Tom Okafor
Screenings
Regional film festivals, community halls along the river
Audio series · 6 episodes · 2023

Night Shift

Between midnight and dawn, a small family bakery on Carrow Street feeds half the neighbourhood before anyone is awake to notice. Night Shift is six episodes recorded entirely in the dark hours — the radio in the corner, the proving cabinets, the regulars who knock on the back door at four in the morning.

Each episode follows one night and one person: the owner, her apprentice, the delivery driver, a nurse finishing a twelve-hour shift.

Producer
Jonah Pell
Sound
Recorded on location, binaural
Length
22–34 minutes per episode
Interview series · 4 films · 2022

Salt & Signal

Four long conversations with people who keep watch in remote places: a lighthouse attendant, a coastguard radio volunteer, a sheep farmer who doubles as the island's postmaster, and the last human weather observer on Skerrow Isle.

Each interview runs uncut at around fifty minutes, with a twelve-minute edit for broadcast. We filmed them over two winters, mostly by lamplight, and mostly while the kettle was on.

Interviews
Nadia Ferrell
Camera & sound
Tom Okafor, Jonah Pell
Format
Full interviews and broadcast edits
Documentary · in production · 2026

What the River Keeps

The village of Low Marren was flooded in 1974 to make a reservoir. Its former residents were scattered across three counties. Today a volunteer archive, run out of a church hall, is collecting everything that survived: wedding photos, ration books, school registers, a recording of the last service in St. Bride's.

We are following the archive through its first full year, and recording oral histories with the people who still remember the village above the water. If you have a connection to Low Marren and would like to contribute, please get in touch.

Director
Nadia Ferrell
Status
Filming, expected completion late 2026
Partners
Low Marren Heritage Group