Studio 91 Media

25/07/2025

So excited for people to see the results of all our hard work on ! 10 spoken word films telling the unsung stories of our precious peatland habitats. Supported by the British Council's 'Connections Through Culture' programme.

UK exhibition: 20-21 Sep, Manchester Museum

Find out more: factualtv.asia/peatonearth

Factual TV
British Council Malaysia
Arts – British Council
Cumbria Wildlife Trust

18/07/2025

18/07/2025

🌏 Peat on Earth is a UK/Malaysia poetic and visual collaboration between poets Matt Sowerby and Kimchi Lai, and filmmakers Studio 91 Media and Factual TV.

The project uses spoken word films to explore the beauty, biodiversity, and cultural importance of peatland habitats in both countries. Supported by our Connections Through Culture grants, the films seek to challenge perceptions and reframe how these landscapes are understood.

Watch the films at these UK screenings:
📅 10 July, 19.00-21.00
📍 Bog Film Festival, Carlisle, hosted by Cumbria Wildlife Trust

📅 20-21 September
📍 Manchester Museum – Top Floor Environment Action Hub

🔗 Find out more: https://ow.ly/jocj50WlI0u

04/07/2025

Some news as we get closer to finishing the films and showing them to the public!

Peat on Earth is a poetic and visual collaboration between poets Matt Sowerby and Kimchi Lai, and filmmakers Studio 91 Media and Factual TV, across the UK and Malaysia. The project uses spoken word films to explore the beauty, biodiversity, and cultural importance of peatland habitats in both countries.

Supported by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture grant, the project seeks to challenge perceptions and reframe how these landscapes are understood.

Where you can see the films in the UK:

📍10 July, 19.00-21.00
Bog Film Festival hosted by Cumbria Wildlife Trust
Learn more and book tickets.

📍20-21 September
Manchester Museum – Top Floor Environment Action Hub
More details to follow.

🔗Find out more here: https://arts.britishcouncil.org/get-involved/events/peat-earth-film-screenings

Details of the screenings in Malaysia coming soon.

Studio 91 Media
Factual TV

16/05/2025

Day 1 of filming complete ✅

and have spent the day at 's Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve, immersing themselves in the habitat, writing poetry and capturing footage. By the end of the project we'll produce five spoken word films, and our Malaysian co-producers will create five more.

Earlier this week .exploring and had their own habitat immersion at a peat forest near Kuala Lumpur. We've been comparing notes over WhatsApp and it's been amazing to realise how many similarities there are between these two very different habitats, both with peat in common.

There's more to film in Cumbria tomorrow. We'll keep you posted on how the project is progressing. 🌍

08/04/2025

It’s lovely to see these edits out in the wild and being enjoyed by KS1 kids all around the UK. Swipe to see some snippets from our eight short films featuring different historical figures in the flesh thanks to the amazing from John Blanke to Queen Elizabeth I. Pleasure to work with as always!

👦🏻 Ben

02/04/2025

Our project with Digital Skills Education in collaboration with .scotland is now live🎉💻

Theres talk about email scams, AI chat bots and strong passcodes in their new YouTube video made by us - go check it out!

20/03/2025

Loved working on this for Play Their Way! We delivered two projects last year for this brilliant initiative of UK Coaching, and we're really proud of how they turned out.

Nat's written a case study all about it on our website – link in the comments.

👦🏻 Ben

11/02/2025

🌿 PEAT ON EARTH… 🌱

We have some exciting news to announce! We’ve been selected to receive a Connections Through Culture grant from Arts – British Council / British Council Malaysia to co-produce a collaborative body of work between the UK and Malaysia that focuses on the topic of climate change.

Work has already begun on our project which is a collaboration with Malaysian filmmaker Factual TV and us. Our project will result in ten poems and spoken word films written by local poets Matt Sowerby and Kimchi Lai both highlighting the importance of bogs and peat swamps in both countries.

Bogs and peat swamps are often seen negatively, with terms like “swamped” or “bogged down“ giving them a bad reputation. However, these biodiverse habitats have an important, planet-saving story to share and deserve celebrating.

The star of the UK films will be Foulshaw Moss, one of Cumbria Wildlife Trust's flagship nature reserves. Ben will spend two days there in May with Matt the poet, immersing themselves in the habitat, capturing visuals and gathering inspiration for the poetry.

We’re off to a cracking start with this project and can’t wait to get even more stuck in over the next few months!! We’ll keep you updated with our progress - watch this space for news about a public exhibition both in the UK and Kuala Lumpur coming later this year.

🌱🌞🌎

03/02/2025

We're so excited to unveil...

***drum roll***

our new improved showreel!

Watch out 2025, we're coming for you.

23/10/2024

Such an honour to work on this fundraising film about the amazing work they do at Oasis Hub Hull and World of Wonder- WoW. It is what churches were always meant to be – a hub of the community, a focal point where everyone is welcome.

👦🏻 Ben

03/07/2024

Sometimes less is more!

Ben recently shot a series of explainer videos for using a simple, clean set up with a focus on making those pesky HMRC rules make sense to normal people.