Hampshire businesses feature in heritage films

Thanks to sponsorship from Winchester BID three short films exploring the history behind some of Hampshire’s businesses have been created specially for this year’s Winchester Heritage Open Days.

Sonder Films in Winchester

‘Behind the Business’ has been produced by Sonder Films, an independent film production company established in 2017 by Winchester friends, Joel Barney, Oscar Ferguson and Ozzi Sanderson. Based in both Winchester and London their work specialises in branded content, music videos and documentaries. 

Their heritage video features The Hampshire Chronicle, one of the oldest local newspapers in England, Carter Marsh & Co, Fine Clocks & Watches, and The Winchester Book Shop which holds three floors of second-hand, vintage, antiquarian and nearly new books.

Joel said:

“Storytelling is always at the centre of what we do, and our focus is to create work that is bold, engaging and unique. It has been a great privilege to go behind the scenes of these three very different businesses and to share some of their incredible history.”

Hampshire’s Chalkstreams

The idea behind the two other films has come from Kyle Alexander, the creator of The Winchester Guidebook.

Working with local cameraman, Finn Ducker, Kyle chose this year’s festival theme of Hidden Nature to uncover the fascinating relationship between Winchester and its chalk geology.

The films focus on two of the region’s finest food and drink suppliers, ChalkStream Foods on the River Test and wine producers, Exton Park.

Commenting on how this year has presented its problems, Kyle added

“but what a great opportunity we’ve had to get out into nature and create something truly unique. These two exceptional businesses are not normally open to the public, so Heritage Open Days viewers are in for something special this year I think.”