Ruth is a very accomplished filmmaker who has a great instinct for storytelling. She is quickly able to build trust and connection both with her colleagues and contributors. She works collaboratively and creatively to ensure that the content answers the client’s needs, while ensuring a really high-quality and engaging piece of film is produced. She has strong experience of working on sensitive topics in a trauma-informed way, and is able to create a natural rapport which puts people at ease. The films she made on breastfeeding have had half a million views in the last year, and she has helped us to create foreign language versions of public health films, enabling us to reach more communities with important health guidance. She has excellent project management skills. She is skilled at partnership working and is highly effective in her time management, including on complex projects. Ruth has created fantastic training resources and offers useful learning support for both colleagues and interviewees to enable them to undertake their own filming in settings when she hasn’t been able to attend in person. Nicola Cadbury, Head of Content, Best Beginnings

Ruth created several promotional videos of our work to showcase to our supporters and funders ...They captured the essence of our service and the client experience perfectly. The films have been a key asset in grant applications for funding and helped us to secure a major grant which supported us through the pandemic. Nothing showcases our service better than hearing from our clients themselves and Ruth was so friendly, helping to put our clients, volunteers, and staff at ease to ensure we got the best out of them for their interviews. Joanne Penn-Crossland, Manager, Smart Works Birmingham

Ruth is a pleasure to work with. We have used Ruth for many video projects and have been thoroughly impressed with the quality of her work, her thorough respect for the key messages we require and her understanding of our tight NHS budgets. She has offered loads of advice for how we can make most efficient use of her time. The videos she made about the maternity unit were easy to follow and have been viewed thousands of times. This has had a clear impact on what service users expect when using the services. Amy Maclean, former Head of Patient Experience, Birmingham Women's and Children’s NHS Trust

We have commissioned Ruth and her team over several years to document various projects. Her hard work resulted in a series of beautiful videos that are a pleasure to watch as the narrative always flows with real energy. What we appreciated most about working with Ruth was her ability to interview people of different ages and backgrounds. She always makes her interviewees feel comfortable and take their guard down and knows how to inject humour. She was flexible and imaginative in transforming our ideas into films that were exciting and completely on-message. Pearl Chesterman, Director for Learning, Birmingham Royal Ballet

Ruth has carried out numerous projects for us and most have involved filming patients and families going through difficult or traumatic experiences. Her professional approach has always given us confidence that she will work sensitively and flexibly. She is caring and empathetic. I would have no hesitation in recommending her for filming similar situations to ours. Prof. Helen Young, Trustee of Across, and Chief NHS Nurse

We commissioned Ruth to make a DVD for Dance to Health - a programme to help older people maintain their strength and balance and so reduce falls. Ruth quickly translated the brief into a vision for the DVD, working collaboratively with ourselves and our dance artists. She was proactive, organised and thorough in her approach at all times. She also developed a good relationship with our participants, producing some great interviews with them. She captured the ethos of Dance to Health in her films and she gave us some great advice along the way. Ruth is always very professional and also a pleasure to work with. Sharon Sanderson, Programme Manager, Aesop

Ruth worked with groups of children and young people and produced a professional set of films for us and was so friendly and supportive. Ruth embodied the values we hold at KIDS and managed to capture the ethos of our organisation perfectly. Caroline Stevens, CEO, Kids