Twenty Years of Wayne Sables Project: A Journey Worth Every Step
October 2025 marks two decades of creativity, collaboration, and community. Here's to all of it — the wins, the lessons, and the remarkable people who made it real.
I'll be honest — when I first started Wayne Sables Project, I wasn't thinking about anniversaries. I was thinking about the work. The next brief, the next idea, the next problem worth solving. Twenty years later, that hunger hasn't changed. But something else has: the magnitude of what this project has become, and just how many extraordinary people have had a hand in shaping it.
October 2025. Two decades. I'm not sure whether to laugh, cry, or just sit very quietly with a good cup of tea and let it all sink in.
Let's go with all three.
BAFTA Connect: What It Actually Does For an Independent Filmmaker
Nearly 20 years in, and I’m still figuring out how this industry works. That’s not a complaint. It’s just the reality of being independent — there’s no HR department, no clear career ladder, no one tapping you on the shoulder telling you what comes next. You work it out as you go.
What Does It Actually Mean to Be a Documentary Filmmaker?
People ask me this more than you'd think. Usually at events, usually after I've explained what I do for the third time in a row. "So you make documentaries? Like the ones on Netflix?"
Sort of. Not exactly. Let me explain.
Whose Story Is It Anyway? On Preserving the Voice of Your Documentary Subjects
Whose Story Is It Anyway? On Preserving the Voice of Your Documentary Subjects
I’ve been making documentary films for nearly two decades. In that time I’ve sat across from miners who wept recalling 1984, drag artists who talked about identity with more clarity than most politicians manage in a career, and a duathlete from South Yorkshire who turned grief into endurance. Every single one of them had a story worth telling. My job — and this is something I genuinely believe — was never to tell it for them.