Co-Directors
Alex Darby, Jake Morris
Executive Producer
Mandy Leith
Editor
Ben Collier
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Music
Sarah Spencer
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A climber, botanist, and poet, Libby Houston, at 80 years old, continues her remarkable work scaling the 300-foot cliffs of Bristol’s Avon Gorge to study rare plants. With her poet’s eye for detail, Libby has helped establish the area as one of England’s most vital botanical sites. Yet, as she monitors the last known specimen of her namesake discovery, Houston’s Whitebeam, the plant’s inevitable extinction causes Libby to reflect on her own legacy.
Alex Darby is co-director and producer of HOUSTON’S WHITEBEAM. After completing his MA in Politics and Documentary Filmmaking at UCL, Alex has gone on to work as an associate producer at Oscar, Emmy and BAFTA-winning production companies including Passion Pictures, Lightbox, Mercury Studios and Rogan Productions.
Jake Morris is co-director and cinematographer of HOUSTON’S WHITEBEAM. He has directed two short fiction films which have been screened internationally. He’s made films for organizations such as Samaritans, Teach First, and The Fund for Global Human Rights and has recently worked on the doc series Made in the 80s for Channel 4. Last year he cut a long-form documentary, Thrown Away Child, which has played at Crystal Palace Film Festival, London International Documentary Film Festival and won Best Short Doc at Poppy Jasper International Film Festival.