Nice Tree Films

09/12/2023

Thank you Oxford Wood Recycling for the lovely course! Thoroughly recommended!

06/12/2023

Just back from seeing this very moving and beautifully crafted documentary about composer F***y Mendelssohn Hensel, made by her great great great granddaughter Sheila Hayman. I’d thoroughly recommend it.
Details here: https://www.dartmouthfilms.com/fannytheothermendelssohn

28/11/2023

28/11/2023

Cracking sunrise today ❤️❤️

21/10/2023

David Holt

An unexpected frosted and foggy morning at Lake Bohinj, Slovenia. The plan was for the sunrise, but this is what I've gotten. In fact, I think I like this atmospheric moody feel more than the typical sunrise colors.

17/10/2023

Thank you Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford for such generous hospitality during the last 2 days. Oh and for arranging the AMAZING weather 😊🍁🍂

21/09/2023

Love working with old friends and colleagues! Thank you Gillian Kelly for a wonderful day!

28/06/2023

Working with the lovely team at St Peter’s Oxford - thank you for making us so welcome!

23/06/2023

We like creating films that change lives, and this week we were working with our friends at HR Wallingford to encourage more girls to consider a career in engineering. HR Wallingford organised an open day for female students from the local school to celebrate this year's International Women in Engineering Day. It gave them a chance to come in, have a look at the facilities, pilot a container tug, and generally discover what engineering is all about. More importantly they could meet and chat to a whole bunch of amazing female engineers. There are so many pressures on girls to conform to other people's stereotypes so it was wonderful to see them discover a whole world of opportunities they didn't even know existed. Read more here - and see how the girls reacted in our film. I wonder what these young women will be doing in 10 years time?

For International Women in Engineering Day 2023 we invited around 30 girls from our local school to meet our inspirational women and tour our state-of-the-art facilities.

16/02/2023

Fascinating day with these guys at HR Wallingford…they’re working to find out how offshore wind farms will impact the marine environment. Brilliant multi-disciplinary collaboration, essential as we move towards .

13/01/2021

4 years ago my then Assistant Producer Lizzie and I set off on a mini adventure, to the far north west of Scotland. The result was a little film about a tiny community and a huge character. Chris Main, who hosted us and cooked for us and introduced us to this fabulous place, died this week from cancer. He was wonderful fun and I feel absolutely shocked and so sad at this news. Chris really lived life to the full. He was irrepressible and hilarious and full of energy. I spoke yesterday to one of his friends and she told me he gave life everything he had right to the end.
This is another horrible reminder that life is short. Don’t put stuff off, because you just don’t know what’s around the next bend. RIP, Commander Main.
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https://youtu.be/G8aPUUCXF9I

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16/12/2020

Arrrggghhh! That’s how lots of this year felt. But actually, despite its challenges it’s been a productive few months for us here at Nice Tree Films and now seems like a good time to look back take a look at what we’ve been able to learn, and say some thank yous.

02/12/2020

23/07/2020

My business, Nice Tree Films, makes corporate video - we work with all kinds of organisations - some very large and some very tiny. All these organisations have been affected by Covid - our NHS clients are obviously at the very sharpest end, trying to arrange massive reorganisations of facilities an

25/05/2020

Glad things have moved on a bit!

Back in the days when there was no drones and no gimbals, Dare devil Aerial Cinematographer Johnny Jordan used this technique to film 007 ski action sequence in 1967.

While filming You Only Live Twice (1967), Johnny was leaning out of a helicopter to get a better shot. Another helicopter was caught in a gust of wind and was blown closer. The rotor blade cut Johnny's leg which had to be amputated. Three years later, he was filming Catch-22 (1970) over the Gulf of Mexico when another plane passed close by. He was sucked out of the open doorway and fell 2,000 feet to his death. He had always refused to wear a safety harness and with his artificial leg wasn't as agile as he used to be.

He developed a special helicopter harness for filming aerial shots of the mountain slopes and action sequences in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). He would hang eighteen feet below the chopper from a large round metal support apparatus. Follow and tag to have a chance to be featured