Quiet Eye Productions is a sport and adventure film company working across the UK and
worldwide. We make documentaries, athlete led YouTube, branded campaigns and event
highlights, bringing award winning filmmaking and elite sporting insight to the same
films.
Most sport content is made about athletes by people watching from outside.
The quiet eye is the fixation that comes just before
commitment. It is measurable, it is what separates an expert from a novice, and it is where the
film is. We named the company after it because we came from inside the sport before we came to
the camera.
Athletes need a story that outlives their results. Brands need to be believed by an audience
that dismisses advertising on sight. Events need a reason for people to care in the eleven
months when nothing is happening. All three are the same job, and it is not covered by
highlights.
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Why our films are different
Two paths. One behind the camera, one behind the scenes.
Behind the camera
Dr Stefan Morrocco
Former elite triathlete and mountain biker
Performance analyst, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
PhD in geomorphology, University of St Andrews
Two decades shooting, cutting and grading
Behind the scenes
Harry Whiteley
Over ten years in elite sport management
Twenty plus athletes across four sports
Project lead, 2024 Cateran Yomp
Commercial partnerships and major events
No other company brings elite athletic experience, a research scientist's eye and deep
insight into professional sport to the same films.
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A still marked up the way a performance analyst would read it: where the gaze settles, where the line is committed, where the pressure peaks.
Quiet Eye Productions is developing 14 ideas for sport and adventure documentaries,
athlete led YouTube series and a podcast, most of them rooted in Scotland. They run from golf and
curling to whitewater kayaking, skiing, eventing and sports psychology. None is funded yet, and
each has a partner role open for an athlete, sponsor or commissioner.
Some have been written and pitched. Some are a page of notes. We show them so you can see the
films we want to make, and come in at the start. If one fits, choose "Sponsor this idea" and
we will send the full outline, or read how sponsoring a film works.
Still from Chasing LightIn development
Chasing Light 2
Golf and cycling · Documentary
The sequel to Chasing Light, our film of a winter solstice climb of Ben Hope and a round at Durness Golf Club. This time it is golf at sunrise on one Scottish coast, golf at sunset on the other, and nothing in between but a bike, a ferry and the shortest day of the year.
A touring professional golfer takes on the great courses of the UK and Ireland, one hole at a time, and explains the course strategy behind every shot. Not how to swing. How to think.
The best golf courses look as though nobody built them. A documentary about golf course design, the people who shaped one Scottish course, and the greenkeepers who keep a century old landscape honest.
Most athletes fear pressure. The world's best seem to want it. A sports psychology documentary about that difference, built on the science of performing under pressure and on elite athletes who have stood on both sides of the line.
The film the company is named after. Quiet eye is the final steady gaze before a decisive action, named by the sports scientist Joan Vickers in 1996. A documentary about the science, and the elite performers who have learned to hold it.
Six Scottish rivers, paddled hard. A whitewater kayaking documentary about moving water, the landscape it has shaped, and the pressures those rivers now face in a changing climate.
Scotland's national teams are often cast as the brave underdog. A sports psychology documentary about what that story does to the people competing inside it, and what it would take to change it.
The other side of the same question. One athlete per film, each of them Scottish and each of them among the best in the world at their sport, asking what it was about home that got them there.
Scotland expects to fall short and hopes it will not. A podcast about Scottish sport, national identity and why a small country keeps believing, with guests from well beyond sport.
Curling is decided by centimetres and nerve, and between Olympic Games almost nobody films it. A YouTube series that stays with Scottish curling through the years the cameras are away.
Some of the most successful people in extreme sport describe a mind that never sits still. A documentary series about attention, risk taking and the pull of the edge, and what science can and cannot yet tell us about it.
Three day eventing asks one horse and one rider to master dressage, cross country and show jumping. A series made with elite event riders about the work nobody sees between one event and the next.
Earnings after a career follow whatever audience and story the athlete built while still competing. Speaking, media work, brand partnerships and coaching all depend on being known for something beyond results. Almost nobody builds that on their own, and almost nobody builds it afterwards.
Should a professional athlete start a YouTube channel?
Yes, if it can be sustained. YouTube is the only major platform where the athlete owns the relationship with the audience, and where a sponsor can price the result. The obstacle is consistency, which is why most athletes need production support rather than advice.
How much does a sport documentary cost?
Cost follows shoot days, travel and complexity rather than runtime. A film made over a few days in one location sits far below one that follows a season. We scope to a budget, and we say early if a film is the wrong tool for the job.
What is the difference between a documentary and event highlights?
Highlights record that something happened. A documentary argues that it mattered. Highlights serve an audience that was already there and last a few days. A documentary reaches people who were not there and keeps working for years.
Where are you based?
We work across the UK from London and Perth, and we film anywhere in the world. A core team is supported by a trusted network of freelancers, which lets us scale for any project.
