About Farthest Films
We perform editorial and producing services for filmmakers and writers of fiction/non-fiction. Farthest Films has served as Writer, Director, Producer, Consulting and Supervising Writer/Producer on films about the mystery of our world, its science and history. Productions include hundreds of hours for Discovery, A&E, PBS, NBC and more.
Sian Evans is the founder of Farthest Films, Smash Inc. and Ffilmcompany. Since 1981 she has directed, produced, made green tea on set, cleaned primes with her shirttails and transcribed numerous inaudible interviews recorded in the presence of screaming cats. She works with artists, writers and documentary filmmakers to understand their project, especially in the development phase when many need to shift, expand, contract, wait and leap, often at the same time . She helps filmmakers identify the arc of their stories and their audiences; professionally plan out the life of their production and adapt over time.
Sian is a proud member of the Documentary Producers Alliance and a founding contributor to the Working Group currently drafting “Negotiating New Projects: Best Practices for Work-for-Hire Documentary Producers.”
Sian is most proud of her creative work directing/producing:
POTTER’S FIELD, a verite piece on the burial of New York City’s unclaimed dead, made for Jimmy Breslin/ABC;
HOME IS WHERE, an Emmy award-winning essay documentary on what makes a sense of home, from the child’s perspective;
BORROWED FROM OUR FUTURE, an early global environmental alarm call from the United Nations Development Programme;
Production team of BEARING WITNESS, a feature-length documentary about the personal and professional lives of women war journalists reporting in Iraq, directed by Barbara Kopple/Cabin Creek Films. Made for A&E.
Sian has filmed around the world; from the People's Republic of China to the coast of Maine, for:
United Nations Development Programme
ABC
PBS
A&E
Discovery
Cabin Creek Films
MJM Creative
Post Office Editorial
Compass Light Productions
Ghost Pictures
Globetrot Productions
Sian's Films:
Sian writes and directs essay documentaries, many of which explore the influence of the child’s perspective. She works extensively with home movies, for their sense of the private, the domestic and the uniqueness of place.
HOME IS WHERE, an essay documentary about the sense of home, examines familiarity, security and recognition. This film won festival Firsts; Seconds; museum screenings worldwide and a regional Emmy.
Works-in-progress include DRUNKEN: WHAT THE CHILDREN SAW, an essay documentary about children’s perceptions of drunkenness, and WHEN ART CAME TO BROOKLYN, about the late 1970s wave of young artists discovering Williamsburgh, Brooklyn.
International screenings include: MOMA/NY; Wexner Center for the Arts, Pacific Film Archives, The Knitting Factory, Printed Matter, Bilbao Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Sonsbeek/Holland, Film + ARC, Biennale/Hamburg and Vienna, Centre for Contemporary Art/Warsaw.
“Through our discussions, I have a clearer understanding of and confidence in the brand and vocabulary of the comedy I’m building, which is great! Thank you for all your insights! ”
“Just need to mention, your work is AMAZING!!! ”
“I feel unbelievably fortunate to have Sian’s story talents at my disposal. She has a strong intuitive sense of narrative and gently teases out story issues and problems. I consider her services a magic bullet for any author.”