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Speakit Films

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Speakit Films is a British film production company, established in 2004 by writer, director and producer team Nick and Marc J. Francis.

Best known for their award-winning 2006 Sundance hit Black Gold and the acclaimed BBC, ARTE and VPRO co-production When China Met Africa. Speakit's work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, the Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation, the UK Film Council, CNC and EU Media Fund.

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Supporting Speakit Films

Through the provision of completion funds, sankalpa enabled Speakit to produce the film Walk With Me to the highest industry standards, secure world wide distribution and build a large movement behind the film and its core message of mindfulness and peace.

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, Walk With Me is a cinematic journey into the world of mindfulness and the Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh. Filmed over three years and with unprecedented access, this visceral film is a meditation on a community who have given up all their possessions for a monastic life in rural France.

Speak It Films, Walk With Me - Thich Nhat Hanh (6) — sankalpa supported activity

sankalpa is an agent for change. It empowers the most important voices and stories to rise above the noise of the mainstream media, to awaken people’s hearts and minds to a new way of seeing themselves, and the world we live in. sankalpa plants the seeds for a more compassionate world.

Marc J. Francis, SpeakIt Films

Speak It Films, Walk With Me - Thich Nhat Hanh (3) — sankalpa supported activity

Walk With Me made the official selection in 2017 for both SXSW and the BFI London Festival.

Cooling to the mind and soothing to the spirit, the documentary Walk With Me offers a tiny oasis of relief to anyone overheated by current events.

The New York Times

Sublime and uplifiting.

LA Times

A moving examination of mortality and life choices.

VILLAGE VOICE

Fascinating and profound.

SCREEN INTERNATIONAL