We are an independent TV and film production company based in East Sussex, England, just a stone's throw from where John Logie Baird invented TV. (You can buy sausages there now, so the exact spot is well worth a visit.)  We are a team of writers, producers, shooters, and editors, with backgrounds in TV documentary production and factual entertainment. But in-house telly work can be a bit of a meat processing factory (TV and sausages again) so we left our steady jobs to do our own thing. We set up Bottle Alley Films to  make documentaries and dramas from unexpected perspectives. Now we apply our combined storytelling and production skills to factual productions and scripted feature films, which should keep us in sausages for a while.

Over the years we've made dozens of specialist factual programmes, observational documentaries, archive-rich historical documentaries, polemics, and factual entertainment series. Some of them were quite good and worth a second look. Others were not. But telly is a mixed bag and a great place to master new skills as you make the most of any budget. Having learnt from mistakes at every stage of production, all over the world, we now manage everything from brief to pitch to script to shoot to edit to delivery. And we know our way around promoting stuff on social media too, although we don't really approve of that sort of thing. Top lesson learnt over the years? There's no problem that can't be solved with a bit of charm and some duct tape

Everyone's a film-maker now, and we should feel bad for adding to the rising oceans of digital content. But our films are the anti-content. The discontent. In 2020 we're developing two unscripted documentaries and a scripted anthology film, all of them, in very different ways, examining the problems of living too much of our lives online. This year, with so many countries enduring lockdown, the internet has been a lifeline for many. But traditional forms of entertainment and education have suffered.  What impact will this have, long term?  If we can play a small part in encouraging people to put their smartphones down and return to the cinemas and theatres, then that will have been a worthwhile pursuit and a nice distraction from sausages.