The Habitat Series explores how people shape the environments they inhabit. Each film investigates a distinct cultural ecosystem, revealing the rituals, resilience, and relationships that define community.

Rooted in an interest in “moments in time,” the series functions as both documentary and archive: a cinematic record of the worlds that hold us before they shift, disappear, or transform. Through intimate portraits, Habitat amplifies underrepresented voices, celebrates the underdog, and uncovers the unseen architecture of everyday life.

The series is designed to grow into a multifilm exploration of diverse cultural and sub-cultural groups across the UK and beyond. Each instalment aims to push the boundaries of genre, voice, and form - honouring the people who build, sustain, aid, run and reinvent the communities we often overlook.

Episode 1 / Documentary

Women on West Green is the inaugural proof of concept film in the Habitat Series - an intimate portrait of the women who fuel the vibrant cultural and economic ecosystem of West Green Road in Tottenham, North London.

Set along one of London’s most multicultural streets, the documentary weaves together the stories of entrepreneurs, caretakers, creatives, and community builders. Our protagonists hail from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe, working in beauty, wellness, hospitality, and food - each shaping the lifeblood of the neighbourhood in her own way.

For the director and creative team, West Green Road holds personal significance. It is a place of belonging, a community discovered as a cultural gem in London - a “habitat” in the truest sense. Many of the women featured have been anchors, mentors, and quiet sources of wisdom to many. Others offer everyday warmth and bridge the cultural ties of those who have migrated through food, language and familiarity that gives a community its soul.

The film honours these women as creators of culture and carriers of knowledge. It celebrates their triumphs, explores their dreams, and listens deeply to their experiences in a changing social and economic landscape.

Framed through the spirit of oral tradition, Women on West Green captures a moment in time - an archival love letter to the women who hold this community together. It asks what it means to create and maintain a distinct habitat within a larger, shifting one.

Themes & Key Interests: the intimacy of nuance, community, expansive womanhood, socio-cultural landscapes, archiving that creates deeper understanding, connecting histories.