Nidd Films

10/12/2025

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Studying Producing for Film & Television. By Mark AnthonyAs I approach the end of my first semester on the MA in Producing for Film & Television at Teesside University, it feels like a good moment to pause — to take stock of what I’ve learned, how my understanding has shifted, and where this jou...

11/11/2025

New on the Nidd Films website

Impact & Partners: where cinema moves beyond the screen.

Film as experience. Cinema as encounter. Connection as legacy.

Discover how our projects connect story, landscape, and community — uniting audiences through heritage, education, and place.

This is the beginning of our next chapter, leading to a new immersive initiative in 2026.

Read more → https://www.niddfilms.com/impactandpartners

03/11/2025

Don’t look back.
He’s closer than you think.

From the Yorkshire moors comes a true story of love, obsession, and loss.

Sweetheart: Angel of the Moor — a gothic historical drama in development from Nidd Films. https://www.niddfilms.com

02/11/2025

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The Producer’s Vision: Collaboration & Trust

“Filmmaking is a team sport," Kathleen Kennedy.

As I take this next step as a producer, I’m reminded how filmmaking thrives on positive collaboration, trust, shared vision, and the collective belief that a story is worth telling.

At Nidd Films, we’re building projects shaped by Yorkshire’s landscapes, its people, and its untold histories. Collaboration is at the heart of everything: from script to screen.

If you’re a filmmaker, artist, composer, or heritage partner who shares that passion, I’d love to hear from you. [email protected]

Let’s make something extraordinary together.

29/10/2025

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28/10/2025

SWEETHEART LATEST NEWS

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22/10/2025

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Bloodlines and Inheritance

The French Romantic Gothic style of Sweetheart: Angel of the Moor isn’t just an artistic choice —
it’s born of the bloodlines that shaped Nidderdale itself.

Brigante Celts, Saxons, Norse, and Normans —
a lineage written into every field, wall, and chapel.

Our producer’s own ancestry traces the same path,
from Brittany to Yorkshire,
where the past lingers in the wind
and the stones remember their names.

The land remembers us.
And sometimes, if you observe quietly, it talks back.

https://www.niddfilms.com/sweetheart

15/10/2025

Between Story and Soil: England’s Lost Myth Lives On

New blog post from Nidd Films

England’s ancient forests still whisper their legends — from Sherwood to Knaresborough, where traces of Robin Hood’s name linger in the lanes and valleys.

In my latest post, I explore how myths like Robin Hood’s — and Tolkien’s belief in the “fragments of true light” — continue to shape our sense of place and identity. These stories aren’t gone; they’re buried in the soil beneath our feet.

Read more on the Nidd Films blog:

https://www.niddfilms.com/blog

Nidd Films is an independent production company in North Yorkshire, creating historical dramas and true story adaptations. Founded by producer Mark Anthony, we bring forgotten voices and regional history to the screen with cinematic craft and emotional truth

13/10/2025

✨ Bring Back the Sparkle ✨

Our upcoming short film Sweetheart: Angel of the Moor is rooted in Yorkshire’s forgotten voices and ghostly folklore.

We would love you to get involved so we’re launching the Vanishing Fairies Poster Challenge — inviting artists, illustrators, and dreamers to reimagine the hidden stories that shaped the moors.

Your artwork could:
🎨 Feature in our campaign
🎟 Earn a VIP invite to the premiere
💫 Help keep folklore and silenced voices alive

Let’s bring a little sparkle — and a touch of the supernatural — back to the forest. 🌲

Tag and use to take part.
🕯 Entries close 12 January 2026

Find out more here: https://www.niddfilms.com/post/bring-a-little-sparkle-back

09/10/2025

“Now Is the Time to Listen — To Heal, Remember, Renew.”

We are constantly told stories of death, unimaginable pain, loss, and suffering.
Every day we are reminded of history’s greatest lessons — yet still, we rarely listen.

When will we truly hear the voices from the past?
When will we find the strength to stop, to stand up, and to say — no more?

History is our greatest teacher,
and it speaks not in anger, but in remembrance.

Sweetheart: Angel of the Moor carries the story of Mary-Jane Skaife,
whose death in 1858 still echoes across the dales.

Like the pelican who feeds her young with her own blood,
her story becomes a symbol of love, resilience, and renewal —
a reminder that compassion can rise even from tragedy.

At a time when the world feels divided and heavy with conflict,
this story asks us to pause, to listen, and to act with empathy.

Now is the time to listen — to heal, remember, renew.

— Mark Anthony
Producer, Nidd Films

08/10/2025

When we filmed at St Saviour’s Church in Thornthwaite, one small detail caught my eye, a pelican feeding her young in the stained glass.

It’s more than decoration. The “pelican in her piety” is an ancient Christian symbol of sacrifice and renewal, and it once appeared in the windows of New Hall, Fewston, home of the Pulleyne family before the valley was flooded to create Swinsty Reservoir in 1867.

Standing there, I couldn’t help but think of West End, the chapel and community now lost beneath the water, and the stories that still find their way back to the surface. The same light that falls through Thornthwaite’s window seems to carry something of that vanished world, memory, faith, and endurance.

These are the threads that run through Sweetheart: Angel of the Moor and into the next chapter, Those Who Belong to the Deer, stories about how landscape remembers, and how love and loss are carried forward in light and shadow.

Image courtesy of Nidd Films, 2025. Photographer Angus Chau. All rights reserved.

Read the full article in our latest blog post here:

https://www.niddfilms.com/blog

06/10/2025

The Witches of the Forest

In 1621, Edward Fairfax of Newhall, Fewston accused six women from Timble and Fewston of witchcraft, neighbours, healers, mothers. Their names — Waite, Dibb, Dickenson, Hill, Foster, Pannell — still echo through the Forest of Knaresborough today.

Tried and acquitted at York Castle, their story speaks of fear, control, and how easily faith became a weapon against women.
Fairfax lived less than a mile from where Mary-Jane Skaife’s story begins two centuries later — the same soil, the same silence.

Photo: (W. Grainge, History & Topography of the Forest of Knaresborough, 1895. Internet Archive.)

Sweetheart: Angel of the Moor
A Nidd Films production
Written & Produced by Mark Anthony

Read more: https://www.niddfilms.com/blog