We film across Scotland, from the far north west to Perthshire and the Great Glen. Ben Hope and Durness on the winter solstice, the horse trials at Scone Palace, the Cateran Yomp at Blairgowrie, and the Great Glen Way from Fort William to Inverness. The country gives us weather, light and distance, and those three things make documentary.
Where have we actually filmed?
Five places, so far, and each one set the terms of the film.
Ben Hope, the most northerly Munro in the UK, climbed by head torch in the dark on 21 December 2025. Durness Golf Club, the most north westerly course on the British mainland, nine holes played against the last of the light on the same day. Both are in Chasing Light and in Winter Solstice at Durness Golf Club.
Scone Palace in Perth, for the 2025 Scone Palace International Horse Trials, where we made Balance, and where we are now making Feel, the follow up film about what passes between horse and rider. Blairgowrie, for the 2026 Cateran Yomp, the 54 mile Highland walk for the Army Benevolent Fund on 6 and 7 June. I filmed that one personally rather than as a Quiet Eye Productions job, and made 54 Miles of Grit from it. And the Great Glen Way, coast to coast from Fort William to Inverness, where we film Danny’s Big Adventure in September.
What does the far north give a film?
A clock. On the winter solstice the far north of Scotland gets only a few hours of usable light. That is a hard constraint, and a hard constraint is a structure. We did not have to invent jeopardy for Chasing Light. We picked the shortest day of the year, then tried to do two things in it that both depend on seeing.
It gives you weather too, which no schedule survives. Near the summit of Ben Hope the wind held at forty to fifty miles an hour and the ground turned icy. There were no views from the top. That is the film. A day that goes exactly to plan is rarely worth watching.
Why does Perthshire matter?
We are based in Perth, and so is Scone Palace. The international horse trials there gave us Balance, a short film about the balance between horse and rider, across the three disciplines of eventing, and between the mental and the physical.
The Highlands start here too, and with them the long days. The Cateran Yomp, the 54 mile Highland challenge Harry led as project lead in 2024, raised close to £600,000 for the Army Benevolent Fund with 1,250 participants on the hill. Long days in this landscape do something to people, and that is the subject we keep returning to. More on why in why endurance makes the best documentary subject.
Does the landscape change how you shoot?
It decides what is possible. Before filmmaking I spent years as a geomorphologist, mapping landslides across Scotland and Ireland and leading river restoration here. I read ground for a living. That habit has not gone anywhere. I look at a location and see the light angle, the exposure, the line a person will actually take, and how long the walk in really is.
That is the same discipline we bring to the moment itself, the held focus before a decisive act. It is where the company name comes from. The full account is on quiet eye theory in sport.
Who makes sport and adventure documentary in Scotland?
We do. Quiet Eye Productions is a sport and adventure film company founded in 2024 by Dr Stefan Morrocco and Harry Whiteley, working out of London and Perth. Documentaries, athlete led YouTube, branded campaigns and event highlights. Between us, two decades behind the camera and more than ten years inside elite sport management.
If you have a story in this landscape, tell us about it.