How do we live beautiful lives
in these turbulent times?
About Folklore Pictures
Folklore Pictures is a documentary production company founded by Jordan Osmond (me) in early 2026. After spending the first 11 years of my filmmaking career creating over 35 documentaries as part of the Happen Films team, films such as Living the Change (2018), Fools & Dreamers (2019), and The New Peasants (2025), I felt called to head in a different direction and ‘Folklore Pictures’ was born.
I’m approaching Folklore Pictures as an exploration, a journey without a destination but there’s a direction of travel. This journey is driven by an ongoing curiosity about the world we live in, the interconnected issues we face, and how we can each contribute in these times.
We’re living through a period of exceptional change where the globalised industrial civilisation most of us live within is reaching a breaking point, along with the natural world we all depend on. I don’t believe it’s possible (or even desirable) to ‘solve’ these problems to allow business-as-usual to continue. But we do have a choice in how we respond.
As old structures and myths crumble, we have the opportunity to replace them with lifeways and systems that are human scale and regenerative.
Some of the underlying questions I want to explore in these films are:
What can we do at the household and community level to live healthy, beautiful, connected, and resilient lives?
What is the big picture story of the transition we’re going through as a society and species?
How can we be more connected to the resources that make our lives possible?
How can we let ourselves feel the grief of the world and channel that into action?
How do we retain our humanness in an age of AI and digital technology?
How do we as communities resist increasing surveillance, control, and authoritarianism?
What lessons can we learn from traditional cultures about relating to the natural world?
What does it look like for humans to be a beneficial presence in ecosystems?
I hope you’ll join me on this journey of learning, sense-making, and exploration into how we can show up in these times and craft our own homegrown responses.
– Jord
“The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop.
Together, we will find the hope beyond hope, the paths which lead to the unknown world ahead of us.”
– The Dark Mountain Manifesto
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How to support
My dream for Folklore Pictures is to be entirely audience funded and to not be reliant on advertising or sponsorships to make ends meet.
If you believe in the power of these stories and want to support this work, I would love to see you join our community on Patreon.
By joining you don’t just get a warm sense of satisfaction in your heart, you also get access to early film viewings, behind-the-scenes videos, and news about current and future productions.
Thank you for helping me tell these stories and share them for free ❤️
