With film-making the cornerstone of Ripples heritage, our documentaries allow an often intimate, occasionally unpredictable but always highly creative and passionate relationship between our film-makers and our uniquely diverse or extraordinary subjects.

Our investment in "beyond-the-box" talent and nimble digital film technologies and animation allows our directors to give compelling portrayal, or interpretations of moments, people, events or history that shape or influence even the most sensually demanding modern audiences.

The line blurs between emotive documentary and narrative and some works reflect very personal journeys, such as Archive of Lost Dreams (2010), which mixes expressive, factual, and rhetorical elements and places subjectivities along with historical material. 

Our documentaries often incorporate stylized enactments placing far more interpretive control with our directors and sometimes overlap with cinematic or entertainment broadcast forms, particularly with the development of reality television that increasingly verges on staged fiction.   

The form of our documentaries has evolved with the commercial success of these films, leading a modern day shift from traditional narrative to highly visualised story-tale.   Our people have fully embraced this evolution and with our end-to-end digital ability to shoot extreme, creatively edit, animate and produce to broadcast, DVD, web or portable mobile devices, never before has production of this film genre been more financially viable.