Collaboration: Cascade Creative Recovery

What we did: We produced a 5 minute video document of a festival by Cascade marking Overdose Awareness Day.

Partners for Cascade: Brighton and Hove City Council, National Lottery,Change Grow Live

We were stoked to be invited to work with Cascade Creative Recovery, a peer-led community of recovering people. Cascade deliver creative and well being activities to help build and sustain recovery from alcohol and substance misuse.

Cascade asked us to document an arts and music festival on Bank Holiday Monday in Brighton.

We took a ‘run and gun’ approach to filming. Working with hand-held camera and a minimal kit allowed us to be mobile throughout the day across different spaces.

We wanted to capture the warmth and vibrancy of this community who gathered together to have fun despite a rather dull Bank Holiday Monday.

The collaboration continued in the edit with Cascade’s director Peter Davies and the Cascade team through sharing screenings and feedback.

The film can work both as documentation of the event and as an introduction to Cascade’s ethos.