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I’m a West Sussex based filmmaker and content creator with a full in-house video production service for creating stylish video content for brands and charities.

16/10/2025

I do enjoy a lunchtime walk. And I've passed by this very small village - Warminghurst, West Sussex - many times over the years, but I had absolutely no idea about its historic significance and importance. It's basically just a church, a wall, some fields, and a few houses.

Turns out that William Penn lived here for around 25 years. And it was here, with his fellow Quakers, that he wrote "The Frame of Government" in 1682 for his granted land in the New World - Pennsylvania (literally 'Penn’s woods'). Before departing on his voyage across the Atlantic to establish a colony there.

For perspective: without that remarkably forward-thinking document, there might never have been a U.S. Constitution… and so perhaps no United States at all. And it was written here. In this tiny little corner of England.

*mind blown.gif*

23/09/2025

Superstition. Fear. The untamed frontier. "Gnarled" is a period folk horror short set in the shadows of the King’s Colonies, deep in the New World. Where the twisted roots and branches of ancient beliefs still hold power.

Coming soon.

20/09/2025

Scared. Tired. Bloodsoaked. And that was just the shoot.

plunging himself into a world of frontier superstitions in my colonial folk horror short, Gnarled.

16/06/2025

Well, here we all are now. All the Dads.

Happy Belated Father's Day to me. Thank you, sausage 👶

08/06/2025

To or not to AI... at the very low budget end of the creative scale, it can serve to democratise the process to an extent, I think. Using descriptions from my script, I was able to curate myself a bit of concept art for my folk horror short project. Like any tool, it serves a purpose, but the ultimate goal should be one of facilitation rather than end result. Would I have liked to have seen what an artist could have inspired based on the same script ? Definitely. Could I afford it? No. But it's allowed me to climb up to the next step 🪜

"Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1705. A MAN, gaunt, bloodied, stumbles into frame. Breath ragged. Broken shackles on his hands. His shredded garments speak of punishment - escaped justice, or something more primal."

29/05/2025

Teasers for short films are a bit pretentious... but there's a few things I wanted to try out before I start production on this:

Gnarled is a folk horror short film set in 1705 Colonial Massachusetts. A tale of fear, superstition, and the twisting roots of old belief. Hopefully I'll finish it this year.

02/05/2025

Third draft of my folk horror short Summer project done. I'm quite enjoying escaping into the early 1700s during lunch breaks.

Now in need of some sinister woodland to shoot in...

20/03/2025

Having scratched my Star Wars fan film itch (and loving the growing views—thank you!), I'm feeling my next cinematic obsession is calling… folk horror.

The older I get, the more drawn I am to the past—back to a time before modernity, when we were at the mercy of our primal superstitions. Folk horror taps into that fear, exploring a world where legend and belief were the only things keeping us in check. It’s an incredible playground for storytelling and world-building.

Lately, I’ve been fascinated by the early English settlers in America—a time when the New World was still an unknown and those colonists had more in common with their forefathers in Blighty than they do today. So much eerie, untapped potential. It's definitely one for a summer project...

17/03/2025

Hurrah I've finally finished my micro fan short, GONK: A Droid's Odyssey. Made with nostalgia, practical effects and a smidge of dark humour:

"In the heat of battle, as Jedi and Sith clash aboard a doomed freighter, one lonely Gonk droid sits forgotten in a dark corner. But fate has other plans. When a wounded Jedi stumbles into its path, this unlikely hero must rise to the occasion—whether it wants to or not..."

🚀 Featuring practical effects, miniatures, and puppetry, this Star Wars fan short is a love letter to the cinematic magic of the original trilogy.

04/03/2025

I'm coming to the end of production on my comedic Star Wars fan short, "GONK: A Droid's Odyssey". I'm not sure how to make these things popular online, but hopefully it will find an audience of delighted fellow nerds. It's been fun to make, and has - for now - satisfied my childhood itch of failing to be the next George Lucas. Hopefully released this month.

12/02/2025

Howay ⚫️⚪️

30/01/2025

Hello, I'm trying to find Scumbag College

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Welcome to Futurist, the future thinking video production company.

I’m Jon Rist. I’m an Award-winning filmmaker based in West Sussex, working throughout Brighton, Horsham, Chichester, Worthing and London, with a full in-house video production service for creating stylish video content for brands and charities.