Patrick Russell

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Mental Health Awareness Week: 10 films showing the evolution of mental healthcare in the UK

Outdated attitudes but also pioneering compassion abound in these 10 path-finding documentaries about mental health from the 1940s to the 1990s.

By Patrick Russell and Jez Stewart

Mental Health Awareness Week: 10 films showing the evolution of mental healthcare in the UK

Features

The 2025 UK Top 50: digging into Moving Image’s annual ranking of comms film movers and shakers

By Patrick Russell and Rebecca Vick

The 2025 UK Top 50: digging into Moving Image’s annual ranking of comms film movers and shakers

Features

New ways to grab the attention: the year’s best charity films

By Patrick Russell and Rebecca Vick

New ways to grab the attention: the year’s best charity films

Features

EVCOM awards 2023 and the year in communications filmmaking

By Patrick Russell

EVCOM awards 2023 and the year in communications filmmaking

The NHS at 75

“Unless you’re Adam Curtis, the pictures have to fit the words”: talking to NHS England’s in-house filmmaker, Thomas Randall

By Patrick Russell

“Unless you’re Adam Curtis, the pictures have to fit the words”: talking to NHS England’s in-house filmmaker, Thomas Randall

Lists

The best British TV of 2023, as picked by BFI curators

By Xavier Alexandre Pillai, Josephine Botting and others

The best British TV of 2023, as picked by BFI curators

The NHS at 75

Behind the curtain on the modern public health film: “They’re rooted in the power of storytelling to help people walk in others’ shoes”

By Patrick Russell

Behind the curtain on the modern public health film: “They’re rooted in the power of storytelling to help people walk in others’ shoes”

The NHS at 75

Making films for the NHS: the story behind the Hugh Laurie and Imelda Staunton training film The Strange Case of Penny Allison

By Patrick Russell

Making films for the NHS: the story behind the Hugh Laurie and Imelda Staunton training film The Strange Case of Penny Allison

All about...

All about... 16mm

By Patrick Russell, Dominic Simmons and others

All about... 16mm

Features

Giants in the shadows: celebrating the centenaries of Sarah Erulkar and John Krish

By Patrick Russell

Giants in the shadows: celebrating the centenaries of Sarah Erulkar and John Krish

Interviews

The forgotten greatest film of all time: Robert Flaherty’s bayou saga Louisiana Story

By Patrick Russell

The forgotten greatest film of all time: Robert Flaherty’s bayou saga Louisiana Story

Lists

100 BBC TV gamechangers

By Lisa Kerrigan, Nadia Attia and others

100 BBC TV gamechangers

Features

Colour at the bottom of the world: Derek Williams and Foothold on Antarctica

By Patrick Russell

Colour at the bottom of the world: Derek Williams and Foothold on Antarctica

Best of 2021

The best new British TV of 2021, picked by BFI curators

By Lisa Kerrigan, James Bell and others

The best new British TV of 2021, picked by BFI curators

Features

EVCOM Awards 2021: how the corporate film sector is responding to the times

By Patrick Russell

EVCOM Awards 2021: how the corporate film sector is responding to the times

Features

The first anti-smoking films: how a nation started to quit

By Ros Cranston and Patrick Russell

The first anti-smoking films: how a nation started to quit

Features

The nation’s wagging finger: celebrating 75 years of the COI’s public information films

By Sarah Castagnetti, Michelle Kirby and others

The nation’s wagging finger: celebrating 75 years of the COI’s public information films

10 great

10 great Christmas films

By Josephine Botting, Sarah Currant and others

10 great Christmas films

Features

The best of brand film: EVCOM London Film and Live Awards 2020

By Patrick Russell

The best of brand film: EVCOM London Film and Live Awards 2020

Britain on Lockdown

Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #7

By Patrick Russell

Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #7

Britain on Lockdown

Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #5

By Patrick Russell, Jez Stewart and others

Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #5

Britain on Lockdown

Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #4

By Patrick Russell and Jez Stewart

Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #4

Britain on Lockdown

Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #3

By Bryony Dixon, Ros Cranston and others

Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #3

Britain on Lockdown

Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #2

By Jez Stewart, Patrick Russell and others

Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #2

BFI Recommends

BFI Recommends: Forgotten Men: The War as It Was

By Patrick Russell

BFI Recommends: Forgotten Men: The War as It Was

Britain on Lockdown

Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #1

By Ros Cranston, William Fowler and others

Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #1

Features

The ways moving images shaped the 2019 general election

By Patrick Russell

The ways moving images shaped the 2019 general election

Lists

The best British TV of 2019

By Josephine Botting, Mark Duguid and others

The best British TV of 2019

News

Economic abuse film wins big at the EVCOM awards 2019

By Patrick Russell

Economic abuse film wins big at the EVCOM awards 2019

News

Child bereavement campaign triumphs at the Charity Film Awards 2019

By Patrick Russell

Child bereavement campaign triumphs at the Charity Film Awards 2019