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Club Corby is a handmade animation exploring the working lives and communities that grew around one of Britain’s largest steelworks. Drawing on archive material and the oral histories of former workers and residents, the film brings together memories of labour, leisure, danger and everyday life. Playful and fragmentary, it pays tribute to these lived experiences while reflecting on how the philosophies of Stewarts & Lloyds, the family-run firm behind the works, may still resonate in Corby’s strong sense of community and collective identity.

Robbos looks back over 190 years of Derbyshire family firm Robinson and Sons, animating drawings, cardboard packaging, staff magazines and other company ephemera, set to a soundtrack of ex-workers’ voices, affectionately known as ‘Robbo’s Angels’.

The company’s innovative approach to product design is played out alongside concern for their workers’ wellbeing. Visiting various sites around Chesterfield, we see the company’s influence on its home town and people, and inevitable changes as time progresses.

The Hands is a poetic celebration of the people whose lives are woven through work. Moving between past and present, The Hands reflects on craft, resilience, migration and belonging through the recurring image of the human hand. As stories pass from one generation to another, work becomes memory, care and connection. Echoing the refrain “We are the hands”, the film honours the people behind what is made and the traces they leave behind. It reminds us that labour is not carried by wool, machines or industry alone, but by human lives, shared experience and the hands that shape, hold and pass things on.