Stories change how people think, feel and act.

For decades, Fin Films has helped broadcasters, charities, environmental campaigners, purpose-led businesses and community groups communicate complex ideas through powerful storytelling. That experience now helps organisations communicate what matters through story, film and engagement.

Whether directing BBC documentaries, creating strong visual campaigns for WWF-UK, leading communications projects, or helping local communities tell their own stories, Fin Films’ work has always had the same purpose:

To help people connect with what matters.

Increasingly, this also means helping people connect more deeply with place, ecology and the living world. Through a practice of landscape listening, Janine finds stories by reading the landscape through different lenses: the camera, ecological observation, ecopsychology deep listening.

From strategy through to delivery, Fin Films helps communicate complex ideas in ways that inspire action. Depending on the project, this might include story development, communications strategy, web articles, press features, social and digital content, documentary production, campaign films, training, workshops or community engagement.

• Story Direction

• Communications

• Documentary, campaign and social video content

• Training and workshops

• Nature and community engagement

• Landscape listening and ecological storytelling

Every project begins with the same question: what is the story people need to understand?

The founder

Fin Films was set up by Janine Finlay, an RTS Award-winning filmmaker with more than 20 years’ experience in broadcast television in both New Zealand and the UK.

Janine had the incredible opportunity of setting up and leading the film unit for World Wildlife Fund (WWF-UK), and her films have taken her from the cotton fields of India to the rubbish dumps of Mexico City, from climate conferences to the wilds of the Scottish Highlands. She has been described by the BBC as “extremely creative,” and by WWF as “fearless.”

Her work has earned her an RTS Award for Science and History Documentary, two BAFTA nominations, and recognition from the Celtic Media Awards and Soho Shorts.

Janine was one of only 16 filmmakers across Europe selected for the Discovery Campus Masterschool, where she developed her documentary Oh No Not Another Documentary About Climate Change alongside leading industry mentors. She also holds a Distinction in Creative Writing from The Open University. Storytelling is always at the core.

Janine is constantly seeking stories that connect people to place, ecology and wonder. Based in Scotland, she is surrounded by wild inspiration and now brings her filmmaking experience together with ecological observation and training in ecological surveying, ecopsychology and shamanic deep listening.

Through landscape listening, she pays close attention to what is living around us and uses different ways of seeing and listening to find the stories already present within a place.

This practice informs a series of short, high-quality 4K nature films made in conjunction with The Community Ecology Movement. These encounters with nature bring to life the things living around us in Scotland, combining cinematic filmmaking with ecological knowledge, species insights and deep observation.

The films invite audiences to slow down, notice more and develop a deeper relationship with the landscapes and species around them.

Want to follow Janine’s latest nature work?
To follow Janine's latest wildlife films and nature storytelling, visit @thegoodnatureproject on Instagram, explore the films on this website on the tab ‘Land Listening’ or discover community ecology projects through The Community Ecology Movement.