Our Team

  • Emma Crome: Film Maker

    Emma Crome is a producer and director whose passion lies in environmental stories about our human connection to the land in Britain. Emma’s latest film ‘The Last English Poacher’ has screened on the international festival circuit, including the BAFTA and BIFA qualifying Norwich Film Festival, and it picked up the coveted Community and Culture Award at Kendal Mountain Festival 2021.

    Emma has spent the last six years working with UK-based production company Coldhouse Collective. Emma is now looking to collaborate independently with other creatives to produce films with meaning and purpose. This will be Emma’s first film as a freelance producer.

  • Emma Hardy: Luthier

    Emma Hardy is a violin maker and repairer, living and working in Sheffield. After completing her training in London, she relocated her workshop to Sheffield, in order to have better access to the outdoors and to join Sheffield’s thriving music scene. She is a member of the British Violin Making Association’s committee, and helps to organise their annual Makers’ Day festival, as well having co-founded Strings Together, a community adult learning orchestra in East London.

    Emma is a climber and hillwalker, and is passionate about land access rights and exploring sustainable building practices. This will be Emma’s first experience of working on a film.

  • Rosie Butler-Hall: Folk Musician

    Rosie Butler-Hall is a Sheffield based English-folk fiddle player, morris dancer and textiles artist. Her work - whether that be music or weaving - is directly influenced by the Yorkshire landscape, which she spends much of her time in. In 2022 Rosie became the Dance Director for the Shrewsbury Folk Festival. She has a wealth of experience as a performer, appearing at festivals across the UK and around the world. She can often be found MC’ing, playing fiddle for ceilidhs (Relentless Ceilidh Band, Urban Folk Theory), for audiences (The English Fiddle Ensemble, The Rosie Hood Band), dancing morris or at sessions.

  • Cat Vinton

    Cat Vinton: Photographer

    Cat documents expeditions, artists, activists, and indigenous people - in a myriad of projects across the globe.

    From the High Himalaya to the Arctic Circle, the Gobi Desert to the Andaman Sea, she’s followed a passion, documenting the People of Borderlands - the Last of the Nomadic People who still roam free, or who once did, across borders over land and sea, immersed in the natural world.

    Cat’s work explores another way of knowing the world - what it means to belong raising questions around the meaning of freedom and home.

    Amongst others she has been published in National Geographic online, The Guardian, Survival International, Oceanographic Magazine, Sirene Journal and has had many features and a cover story in Sidetracked Adventure Magazine. She’s also had images published in a number of books.