Noah Payne-Frank
Noah Payne-Frank is a video-producer and an independent filmmaker.
November 2024
- Anywhere but WashingtonWhy America voted for Donald Trump (again) – videoAmerica has elected Donald Trump for a second time after a convincing victory over Kamala Harris. In the final instalment of Anywhere but Washington, Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to Michigan to watch the final days of the race; as fervent Trump supporters hit the streets, young women mobilise behind Harris, and chaos and despair drive rival election night parties
October 2024
September 2024
- On the groundBetter Together: Is communal living the answer to modern malaise? – video
In the rolling hills of central Italy sits Honeydew, an eco-community created as a direct response to the isolation of the Covid pandemic, enabled by modern technology and aiming to address the profound changes the climate crisis looks set to bring. With stated aims to spread the project globally, the Guardian visited Honeydew to see how founder Benjamin Ramm's vision for the future is playing out, and to learn how sustainable such eco living projects really are.
July 2024
June 2024
- Anywhere but WestminsterHere's what you find under Labour's 'landslide': doubters, abstainers and independents - videoIn the third episode of a new series of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos travel around the West Midlands, and find a fascinating political mixture: hesitant Labour voters, a new crop of independents focused on Palestine and local cuts – and, amid deep social problems, lots of people who think the election hardly matters. Here, it seems, is the reality that all those opinion polls get nowhere near
- Anywhere but WestminsterWhy are the Tories collapsing? These true-blue towns know the answers - videoIn the latest episode of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos go to Woking, Guildford and Aldershot. Most of England's south-east used to be loyally Conservative - now, however, people in the "blue wall" are struggling, cuts are biting, and Toryism today is leaving younger voters behind.
- Anywhere but WestminsterThis Labour city backed Brexit and went Tory: what did it get in return? - videoIn the first video of a new series of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos revisit Stoke-on-Trent, the once-loyal Labour city that went totally Tory in 2019. Has 'levelling up' money made up for swingeing local cuts? Will Labour win again? And what do people working hard to turn the place around think about the future?
November 2023
April 2023
- On the ground‘It's a community coming together’: an army of volunteers fight to save their river – videoAngela Jones has spent her life swimming in the Rivers Wye and Usk. Five years ago she began to notice the impact of pollution and decided to fight back. Now an army of volunteers have come together to gather data and evidence, and bring about change, before it is too late
March 2023
- On the groundMould, cold and a community hub offering hope in the cost of living crisis – video
More than 2m households fell into fuel poverty last year, and in one north-east England community many must make a daily choice between heating and eating.
February 2023
November 2022
October 2022
- A sceptic's guide to wellnessA sceptic’s guide to wellness: autoimmune disease, alternative therapies and me – video
With autoimmune diseases on the rise around the world, ever greater numbers of people are turning to the booming wellness industry to help manage these incurable conditions outside of conventional science. The Guardian journalist Richard Sprenger, who has multiple sclerosis, goes on a journey into the heart of this industry to see if it can cure his natural scepticism – and perhaps even the condition itself?